The School of Numbers
Learn about Mathematics with 40 Simple Lessons
Published on 7. March 2019
96 pages
978-0-7112-4044-5 (ISBN)
Description
Greetings Cadet! Congratulations on being accepted into the prestigious Astro Academy for math! Now strap on your space boots, secure you helmet and let's get ready for a mathematical journey like no other!
Hop on board the spaceship School of Numbers and head off on an intergalactic mathematical journey that will introduce young readers to key concepts including arithmetic, shapes, fractions, percentages, and sequences.
Six eccentric professors will teach budding space mathematic Cadets all there is to know about the world of numbers! Meet Captain Archimedes Brown who keeps everyone in order; Lois Carmen Denominator who's got a passion for fractions; Di Ameter who's a stickler for geometry; Al Jabra who loves algebra; Ava Ridge who's looney for statistics; and last but certainly not least, Adam Up who just can't get enough of arithmetic!
Float into this gravity-free classroom, prepare yourself for antics aplenty and get ready to see math in action like never before.
Hop on board the spaceship School of Numbers and head off on an intergalactic mathematical journey that will introduce young readers to key concepts including arithmetic, shapes, fractions, percentages, and sequences.
Six eccentric professors will teach budding space mathematic Cadets all there is to know about the world of numbers! Meet Captain Archimedes Brown who keeps everyone in order; Lois Carmen Denominator who's got a passion for fractions; Di Ameter who's a stickler for geometry; Al Jabra who loves algebra; Ava Ridge who's looney for statistics; and last but certainly not least, Adam Up who just can't get enough of arithmetic!
Float into this gravity-free classroom, prepare yourself for antics aplenty and get ready to see math in action like never before.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 11 years
File size
15,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-4044-5 (9780711240445)
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Other editions
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03/2019
Wide Eyed Editions
€38.59
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Persons
Once a children's book editor, Emily Hawkins is now a full-time author. Her work has been featured on the New York Times bestseller list (Oceanology, 2009) as well as winning the Children's Travel Book of the Year Award (Atlas of Animal Adventures, 2016). Along with her background in children's non-fiction Emily has a strong interest in myth, folklore and storytelling, and has written several titles in the Lost Atlases and Spin to Survive series (Wide Eyed Editions). In 2020 she wrote A Natural History of Fairies, which has been translated into twelve languages, selling more than 100,000 copies worldwide. Illustrator DANIEL FROST is a recent, award-winning graduate of the Royal College of Art. His work blends modern images with traditional mediums. He lives and works in London.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Welcome Aboard the Starship Infinity
- Why Is Math Important?
- Meet the Crew
- Term 1 Getting the Knack of Numbers
- Lesson 1: What Are Digits?
- Lesson 2: Making Things Add Up
- Lesson 3: Take-Away-Tastic
- Lesson 4: What Are Negative Numbers?
- Lesson 5: Feel the Freeze!
- Lesson 6: Learn to Master Multiplication
- Lesson 7: Sneaky Shortcuts
- Lesson 8: Dealing with Division
- Lesson 9: How Can We Make Division Easier?
- Lesson 10: Number Tricks
- Lesson 11: What Is a Prime Number?
- Lesson 12: Square Numbers and Square Roots
- Lesson 13: What Are Triangular Numbers?
- Lesson 14: Feel the Power!
- Lesson 15: Fraction Action
- Lesson 16: Delightful Decimals
- Lesson 17: What's a Percentage?
- Lesson 18: Sequences and Series
- Lesson 19: The Fibonacci Sequence
- Lesson 20: The Amazing Number 9
- Term 2 All Shapes and Sizes
- Lesson 21: Getting a Handle on Angles
- Lesson 22: Ship Shapes
- Lesson 23: Terrific Triangles
- Lesson 24: Going Round in Circles
- Lesson 25: Easy as Pi
- Lesson 26: Puzzling Perimeters
- Lesson 27: Area Hysteria
- Lesson 28: Rock Solid: The 3-D Shapes You Need to Know
- Lesson 29: What a Transformation!
- Lesson 30: Symmetry and Tessellation
- Term 3 Real-World Math
- Lesson 31: Body Math
- Lesson 32: Mastering Measurements
- Lesson 33: Distances in Space
- Lesson 34: Keeping Time
- Lesson 35: The Need for Speed
- Lesson 36: What Is Statistics?
- Lesson 37: Graphs and Charts
- Lesson 38: What Is Probability?
- Lesson 39: Maps and Compasses
- Lesson 40: Mission to Mars
- Glossary
