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David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of numbers, geometry, measurement, and much more in this unconventional and highly original guide to math.
From computer games to bridges, shopping malls to game shows, math is all around you if you look closely enough. In Mammoth Math, not only will you learn the essential principles of math, you'll enjoy learning about them.
From start to finish, let the mammoths be your guide as they seek to understand the math! These intrepid demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain, as they wrestle with adding or subtracting large numbers, measuring angles, reading 24-hour time, creating a pie chart, solving equations, and much more.
Following on from Mammoth Science is best-selling illustrator David Macaulay, whose How Machines Work won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2016. Renowned for his ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius, Macaulay captures the oddball humor of his subject matter, making Mammoth Math the perfect introduction to math for the young and the young-at-heart.
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- ISBN: 9780744073829
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- English
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Starred review from August 1, 2022
Gr 2-6-Macaulay lays out spread after spread of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, yes, but also Fibonacci sequence, scaling, Venn diagrams, Pascal's triangle, telling time, magic shapes, rounding, estimates, data handling, codes, using a compass, and more. To describe it is to diminish it. The book must be entered, pored over, absorbed, shared, flipped through, and experienced. It's madness: the cast of shrews is in the thousands. It's brilliant: Macaulay gives children true life skills for estimating that will have them doing their taxes in no time. And it's funny: if the goal is first to entertain, any browser will be quickly hooked. Most of the information in the volume is instantly digestible and absolutely unforgettable, and that's saying something. Back matter includes for reference multiplication grids and tables, fractions, decimals and percentages, units of measurements, geometric shapes and angles, glossary, index, mammoth on the moon, signs and symbols, solutions to problems in the text, exhausted shrews, and a space alien. VERDICT Both classic and forward-looking, perfect for browsing and research, this exhaustive guide to the realm of number-based thinking and fact-gathering could not be any clearer, any more welcome, and any more more.-Kimberly Olson Fakih
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