How Math Works
by Carol Vorderman Author
(From Amazon): Here is a stimulating guide to the wonders of mathematics, packed with enlightening experiments for the whole family. Provides brain-teasing puzzles and tricks as well as educa-tional experiments that are fun to do. For ages 8-14.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0895778505
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 83
- Pages
- 192
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 8th
- Publisher
- Readers Digest
- Copyright
- 1996
Chapters
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Home Labratory
- 3 The Four Skills
- 4 Ways of Writing Numbers
- 5 A History of Calculators
- 6 Controlling Numbers
- 7 Calculating Aids
- 8 Using Your Brain
- 9 Having Fun
- 10 Mathematics and Science
- 11 What is Zero?
- 12 Positive and Negative Numbers
- 13 Fractions and Decimals
- 14 Estimating
- 15 Other Sorts of Numbers
- 16 Using Powers
- 17 Big Numbers
- 18 Special Numbers
- 19 Number Bases
- 20 Series and Sequences
- 21 Comparing Amounts
- 22 Comparisons
- 23 Using Ratios
- 24 Divine Proportions
- 25 What is a Fraction?
- 26 Finding Fractions
- 27 By the Hundred
- 28 History of Algebra
- 29 Using Letters
- 30 Finding a Solution
- 31 Cartesian Coordinates
- 32 Messages in Numbers
- 33 What Are the Chances?
- 34 Looking at Averages
- 35 Presenting Data
- 36 Information on Graphs
- 37 Systems of Measurement
- 38 Personal Measuring Systems
- 39 Measuring Instruments
- 40 Distances
- 41 Counting Squares
- 42 The Effect of an Area
- 43 Occupied Space
- 44 Working Out Volume
- 45 Mass and Weight
- 46 Time
- 47 Speed
- 48 Angles and Simple Shapes
- 49 What Is an Angle?
- 50 Using the Angle
- 51 Straight Lines
- 52 Triangles
- 53 Right Angles
- 54 Trigonometry
- 55 Simple Shapes
- 56 Fitting Shapes
- 57 Circles and Wavy Lines
- 58 Discovering Pi
- 59 Introducing the Circle
- 60 Introducing Curves
- 61 Special Curves
- 62 Uses for Curves
- 63 The Nature of Spirals
- 64 Three-Dimensional Spirals
- 65 3D and Symmetry
- 66 Solid Shapes
- 67 Cubes, Pyramids, and Spheres
- 68 Transformations
- 69 Symmetry
- 70 From Two to Three Dimensions
- 71 Projections in Art
- 72 What is Topology?
- 73 Practical Puzzles
- 74 The New Golden Age
- 75 What is Logic?
- 76 Using Reasoning
- 77 Logic Puzzles
- 78 Planning Pathways
- 79 Chaos Theory and Fractals
- 80 Glossary
- 81 Answers to Puzzles
- 82 Index
- 83 Acknowledgements
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