This is Not a Maths Book
A Smart Art Activity Book
Published on 6. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-78240-205-3 (ISBN)
Description
Amazing art projects that will keep kids busy for hours!
With the fun and creative drawing activities in This is Not a Maths Book, you'll be able to make your very own designs to amaze your family and friends. The projects are explained with diagrams and step-by-step instructions, making them simple and fun to complete. As you sketch, you'll discover the amazing maths principles in each challenge that makes it work. Each page has lots of space to draw, and there's a section of graph paper at the back of the book so that you can keep on creating!
You'll discover how to make:
Your own optical illusions
Perfect circles
Parabolic curves
Mandalas
Tiled patterns
Fractals
Snowflakes
Stomachion puzzles
Tessellations
Loop-de-loops
Golden spirals
Square-tangles
Sketches on a slant
3-D webs
Impossible triangles
Get ready to find out how art can be maths, and maths can be art! But remember - this is absolutely NOT a maths book.
Or is it...?
Winner of a British Book Design and Production Award 2015, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Category
Winner of the ALCS Educational Writers Award, 2016
With the fun and creative drawing activities in This is Not a Maths Book, you'll be able to make your very own designs to amaze your family and friends. The projects are explained with diagrams and step-by-step instructions, making them simple and fun to complete. As you sketch, you'll discover the amazing maths principles in each challenge that makes it work. Each page has lots of space to draw, and there's a section of graph paper at the back of the book so that you can keep on creating!
You'll discover how to make:
Your own optical illusions
Perfect circles
Parabolic curves
Mandalas
Tiled patterns
Fractals
Snowflakes
Stomachion puzzles
Tessellations
Loop-de-loops
Golden spirals
Square-tangles
Sketches on a slant
3-D webs
Impossible triangles
Get ready to find out how art can be maths, and maths can be art! But remember - this is absolutely NOT a maths book.
Or is it...?
Winner of a British Book Design and Production Award 2015, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Category
Winner of the ALCS Educational Writers Award, 2016
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 10 to 13 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrated in colour throughout
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78240-205-3 (9781782402053)
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Person
Anna Weltman is an author and math teacher, with a passion for showing kids how math is present in the world all around us. She is co-founder of Math Munch, an online resource that provides a digest of mathematics for children and parents. The award-winning This is Not a Maths Book, written by Anna, was published by Ivy Kids in 2015.