2nd revised edition. — London: Dorling Kindersley Limited / A Penguin Random House, 2022. — 128 p. — ISBN 978-0-2415-1524-2.
Improve your math and number skills by recognizing which math skills you already use in everyday life and learning new ones while having fun.
Did you realize how much math you already do when you play computer games, plan a trip, or bake a cake? This ebook explains how to broaden your existing knowledge, how your brain works things out, and how you can improve your math skills in general. Investigate amazing algebra, perplexing primes, super sequences, and unusual shapes. Meet the big names and even bigger brains who made mathematical history, such as Pythagoras, Grace Hopper, and Alan Turing, and challenge yourself with quizzes to answer, puzzles to solve, codes to crack, and geometrical illusions to inspire you. Whether you’re a math whiz, a numbers nerd, or completely clueless when it comes to calculations, train your brain to win.
This essential ebook explains the basic ideas behind math to give young readers more confidence in their ability to handle numbers and mathematical problems, and it places the ideas in context to help children understand why math is actually useful and even exciting! Fun, cartoon-style illustrations aid in the introduction of concepts and the demystification of math.