The Best Ever Jobs In: Maths
Published on 9. April 2020
Book
Hardback
48 pages
978-1-5263-1307-2 (ISBN)
Description
Does your child dream of a future career in the exciting world of maths? This book will show them that there is so much more to a maths career than pushing buttons on a calculator and making graphs.
The perfect book for budding sports analysts, theme park designers, astronomers, climate scientists or even video game designers. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions. There are lots of careers that use maths in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the possibilities that maths can bring.
Famous and leading scientists in their fields are featured throughout. Readers will also go behind the scenes with weather forecasters, roboticists and with NASA mathematicians as they build the latest space tech, so they can discover more about how these professionals do their jobs.
This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.
Titles in the series:
The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology
The perfect book for budding sports analysts, theme park designers, astronomers, climate scientists or even video game designers. This book highlights the importance of studying STEAM subjects at school to open up the route into these professions. There are lots of careers that use maths in one way or another and this book will open their eyes and mind to the possibilities that maths can bring.
Famous and leading scientists in their fields are featured throughout. Readers will also go behind the scenes with weather forecasters, roboticists and with NASA mathematicians as they build the latest space tech, so they can discover more about how these professionals do their jobs.
This series is ideal for readers aged 9+ who are considering their options at school. Many children worry about job opportunities in the future and these books highlight a great range of jobs in STEM and STEAM subject areas, which can help inspire them to think about where they want their lives to take them.
Titles in the series:
The Best Ever Jobs in Art
The Best Ever Jobs in Engineering
The Best Ever Jobs in Maths
The Best Ever Jobs in Science
The Best Ever Jobs in Technology
More details
Series
Edition
Illustrated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 16 years
Edition type
Illustrated edition
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 256 mm
Width: 194 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5263-1307-2 (9781526313072)
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Person
Rob Colson is an author and editor of a wide range of books for children and adults, including many natural history, maths and science titles. Previous titles as author: Ultimate Cars, Ultimate Machines (Wayland); Super Science (Franklin Watts). Other titles: Bone Collection: Animals (Scholastic), Puzzles, Conundrums and Enigmas (Parragon). Contributing author to Battle (DK).
Content
1: Top maths jobs
1: Computer programmer
1: Cryptographer
1: Meteorologist
1: Behind the scenes: Climate scientist
1: Research mathematician
1: Statistician
1: Opinion pollster
1: Sports analyst
1: Behind the scenes: Hawk-Eye
1: Roboticist
1: Behind the scenes: Robotics lab
1: Theme park designer
1: Urban planner
1: Fraud investigator
1: Cartographer
1: Space scientist
1: Astronomer
1: Behind the scenes: NASA
1: Video game designer
1: Behind the scenes: Video game company
1: Glossary
1: Further information
1: Index
1: Computer programmer
1: Cryptographer
1: Meteorologist
1: Behind the scenes: Climate scientist
1: Research mathematician
1: Statistician
1: Opinion pollster
1: Sports analyst
1: Behind the scenes: Hawk-Eye
1: Roboticist
1: Behind the scenes: Robotics lab
1: Theme park designer
1: Urban planner
1: Fraud investigator
1: Cartographer
1: Space scientist
1: Astronomer
1: Behind the scenes: NASA
1: Video game designer
1: Behind the scenes: Video game company
1: Glossary
1: Further information
1: Index