- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Hippo (16 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439981166
- ISBN-13: 978-0439981163
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 248,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Is maths making you miserable? Are you scared of squares and perplexed by primes? Do numbers leave you...non-plussed? Then it's time to be utterly amazed, as you're whisked off to infinity and back with Numbers: The Key to the Universe. Find out how you could win a million dollars and become famous for ever (twice), discover the key to the evil Professor's Fiendish Number Chain, and travel to a distant planet for the biggest gig in all eternity. Meanwhile, things get ugly when the gangsters meet the unlucky number 13. Guarantee: This book contains no nasty exercises and no boring sums!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
'It's time to be utterly amazed, as you're whisked off to infinity and back with Numbers....'
7 Mar 2007
Format:Paperback
'Guarantee - this book contains no nasty exercises and no boring sums!'
The colourful, humorous cover opens to 192 pages, split over chapters:-
1. The beginning of the end
2. Fibonacci and the Fogsworth Manor miracle
3. Squares, triangles, cubes and what they get up to together
4. Fortunes and the phobias
5. Prime suspects
6. The curiosity shop
7. Magic fingers
8. Perfectly useless numbers
9. Chapter nine
10. The night of mad and ghostly numbers
11. The end of the end
12. The final judgement
written in a variety of fonts in the usual Kjartan Poskitt entertaining style, e.g.:-
'Some people will find this book strange.
It isn't about doing sums or fractions, it's full of stuff to make you go 'ooh' and 'ah' and even the occasional 'uh'. Imagine answering the door to see yourself standing there. What noise would you make?
Well, you'll be making that noise quite a lot as you read this book.........'
'Maths as you have never seen it before!'
Black and white illustrations/cartoons throughout.
The colourful, humorous cover opens to 192 pages, split over chapters:-
1. The beginning of the end
2. Fibonacci and the Fogsworth Manor miracle
3. Squares, triangles, cubes and what they get up to together
4. Fortunes and the phobias
5. Prime suspects
6. The curiosity shop
7. Magic fingers
8. Perfectly useless numbers
9. Chapter nine
10. The night of mad and ghostly numbers
11. The end of the end
12. The final judgement
written in a variety of fonts in the usual Kjartan Poskitt entertaining style, e.g.:-
'Some people will find this book strange.
It isn't about doing sums or fractions, it's full of stuff to make you go 'ooh' and 'ah' and even the occasional 'uh'. Imagine answering the door to see yourself standing there. What noise would you make?
Well, you'll be making that noise quite a lot as you read this book.........'
'Maths as you have never seen it before!'
Black and white illustrations/cartoons throughout.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book isn't an ordinary maths book. To make it more fun it has aliens, mad professors, cowgirls and cowboys, utterly nutty pure mathematicians and a viking lady. It is full of nice images and is fun for people 7 - 77. Definately worth its price.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great book!
14 April 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I ordered this and another from the UK after hearing about it from some homeschooling groups. These books are an excellent way to teach math skills in a fun way. My kids love flipping through the pages to find new "tricks" without even realizing they are learning math.
I'd highly recommend this to anyone who wants to keep their children interested in learning math without constant drilling and boring worksheets.
I'd highly recommend this to anyone who wants to keep their children interested in learning math without constant drilling and boring worksheets.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Reading about math
15 July 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a well written, humorous book about mathematical ideas. It is not necessarily a teaching tool but if you have a young person who is fascinated by math this is a good one. It is written FOR young people, not adults, altho adults can enjoy it as I did. It is not a textbook although someone could turn it into one. I wouldn't. I like it as reading material for the inquisitive.
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