- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Hippo; 1 edition (16 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439996074
- ISBN-13: 978-0439996075
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 71,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Does "probability" make you panic? Do you ever feel you don't fancy your chances? This title will show you why coins have no memory, and whether Urgum the Axeman is likely to lose his head and join Riverboat Lil and Brett Shuffler in a mathematical tangle with swamp snakes.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This magnificent book full of facts about probability makes maths fun. It makes children want to learn! Never has anyone made maths so appealing to children. It has puzzles, facts and questions which will keep your child reading for hours.
Not only will it make children want to learn but it teaches them in such a way that they remember every fact for ever. What is not to like about this book.
Not only will it make children want to learn but it teaches them in such a way that they remember every fact for ever. What is not to like about this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sometimes the textbooks just do not get the ideas across, especially with a counter-intuitive topic like Probability. This little book, whilst looking like a childrens book,does just that.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Guarantee - this book contains no nasty exercises and no boring sums!'
Is Maths making you miserable?
Does probability make you panic?
Do you ever feel that you don't fancy your chances?
Then it's highly probable that you need `Do you feel lucky?'
Find out why coins have no memory, whether Urgum the Axeman is likely to lose his head and join Riverboat Lil and Brett Shuffler in a mathematical tangle with swamp snakes.
Plus, see what happens when the Gabrianni gang take a gamble with maths.
The colourful, humorous cover opens to 176 pages, split over chapters:-
1. One day in the forgotten desert
2. Before we enter the strange world of probability
3. How not to lose your trousers
4. Fair play
5. Heads or dishes
6. One of the most gorgeous things in maths
7. Perms, coms, curries, burgers, bells and the lottery
8. Dice, dates and devious decks
9. When meteors collide and monkeys type
10. Making pie with a cocktail stick
11. Adding adders
12. Some odd odds
13. Spots, spinners and silver dollars
14. The Great Rhun's golden egg
15. So what do you think now?
written in a variety of fonts in the usual Kjartan Poskitt entertaining style. Black and white illustrations/cartoons throughout.
'Maths as you have never seen it before!'
Or likely to, again!
Is Maths making you miserable?
Does probability make you panic?
Do you ever feel that you don't fancy your chances?
Then it's highly probable that you need `Do you feel lucky?'
Find out why coins have no memory, whether Urgum the Axeman is likely to lose his head and join Riverboat Lil and Brett Shuffler in a mathematical tangle with swamp snakes.
Plus, see what happens when the Gabrianni gang take a gamble with maths.
The colourful, humorous cover opens to 176 pages, split over chapters:-
1. One day in the forgotten desert
2. Before we enter the strange world of probability
3. How not to lose your trousers
4. Fair play
5. Heads or dishes
6. One of the most gorgeous things in maths
7. Perms, coms, curries, burgers, bells and the lottery
8. Dice, dates and devious decks
9. When meteors collide and monkeys type
10. Making pie with a cocktail stick
11. Adding adders
12. Some odd odds
13. Spots, spinners and silver dollars
14. The Great Rhun's golden egg
15. So what do you think now?
written in a variety of fonts in the usual Kjartan Poskitt entertaining style. Black and white illustrations/cartoons throughout.
'Maths as you have never seen it before!'
Or likely to, again!
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