Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to shapes they don't teach at school. Readers will find out how to command respect throughout the entire Universe, learn why the US defence headquarters is a penagon, and discover the quickest way to get a naked Colonel back to his beach hut.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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The seventh Murderous maths book. Again, another amazingly brilliant book, this time explaining in finer detail, geometry, or to be precise, shape. As an avid fan of the Murderous maths books, and Mr Poskitt himself, this witty and tremendously funny book explains certain topics of mathematics that I would never understand in Maths lessons at school. Philip Reeve's cartoons and diagrams add to the book certain comical effects. I love this book because it explains so simply maths that would otherwise be, well, murderous. With phazmacycles, and naked colnels involved, this book will really make you laugh, and you will still learn things without realising, through jokes, sarcasm and clever wit. I give it 10/10.
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'Guarantee - this book contains absolutely NO SUMS!'
'Is Maths making you miserable?
Are you perplexed by polygons and addled by angles?
Do you sometimes wonder where to stick your compasses?
Then it's time you learned the truth about Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes (Murderous Maths)
The colourful, humorous cover opens to 159 pages, split over chapters:-
1. The secret vault
2. Locus, focus and a bit of hocus pocus
3. Everything worth knowing about triangles
4. Polygons
5. Vicious circles
6. Lumps and bumps
7. Ellipses, whispers and wandering stars
8. Prove it, Pytho
written in a variety of fonts in the usual Kjartan Poskitt entertaining style, e.g.:-
'.....Yes, indeed.
'Isosceles' actually means 'equal legs' and in an 'isosceles triangle', the two angles opposite the equal sides always have to be the same size. It doesn't matter if the triangle is a long pointy one or a short flat one. The fun bit is that it's maths but there are no numbers involved!..........'
Black and white illustrations/cartoons throughout.
'Maths as you have never seen it before!'
'Is Maths making you miserable?
Are you perplexed by polygons and addled by angles?
Do you sometimes wonder where to stick your compasses?
Then it's time you learned the truth about Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes (Murderous Maths)
The colourful, humorous cover opens to 159 pages, split over chapters:-
1. The secret vault
2. Locus, focus and a bit of hocus pocus
3. Everything worth knowing about triangles
4. Polygons
5. Vicious circles
6. Lumps and bumps
7. Ellipses, whispers and wandering stars
8. Prove it, Pytho
written in a variety of fonts in the usual Kjartan Poskitt entertaining style, e.g.:-
'.....Yes, indeed.
'Isosceles' actually means 'equal legs' and in an 'isosceles triangle', the two angles opposite the equal sides always have to be the same size. It doesn't matter if the triangle is a long pointy one or a short flat one. The fun bit is that it's maths but there are no numbers involved!..........'
Black and white illustrations/cartoons throughout.
'Maths as you have never seen it before!'
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good book to explain math to junior high kids
19 Aug 2006
By Heather Lovely
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Format:Paperback
I am a math teacher and I bought this book on a whim, hoping it would be good for my students. It is very well written and easy to understand. The math is clear and accessable. I can wait to see what my students think.
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