Math for kids Fun math games and activities inspired by awesome mathematicians, past and present! with 20+ illustrated biographies of amazing mathematicians from around the world
Book - 2022
"The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Math for Kids features biographies of 20+ leading mathematicians, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging games and activities to bring the history and principles of math alive"--
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Beverly, MA :
Quarry Books
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBN
- 9780760373118
- Geometry
- Games
- Art
- Statistics
- Recreational math
- Final project.
- Geometry - Hypatia : Square wheels - Maryam Mirzakhami : Straight edge, curved slot - J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. : Building buildings - Fan Chung: Corners and edges and faces! Oh my!
- Games - John Conway : Dots and boxes - Federico Ardila : Pigeons love holes - Srinivasa Ramanujan : Mancala - Muhammad ibn Mũsã al-Khwãrizmĩ
- - Art - Grace Hopper : Binary braclet - Mary Everest Boole : Stitching Everest - Ron Graham : Fibonacci spiral - Jennifer McLoud-Mann
- - Statistics - Gertrude Mary Cox : Bars, short and tall - Mary Cartwright : Organized chaos - Florence Nightingale : Pizza pie charts - David Blackwell : Always bet on math - Nalini Joshi : The Three boxes problem
- - Recreational math - Persi Diaconis : Mathematical magic - George Boole : The princess's puzzles - Emmy Noether : Fabulous folding flexagons - Martin Gardner : A heap of hexagons
- - Final Project - Shing-Tung Yau : Alien city