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85) Family math
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
This book involves parents and children with different activities in problem solving and experimenting, to improve their mathematical skills and gain appreciation for mathematics.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Answers to unusual questions, using mathematics. First two questions, as examples: How many birds would it take to pick you up and fly with you?; and, How many bees does it take to make one jar of honey?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself - and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. After meeting with a member of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, a startling new discovery by Carroll's great niece rocks Oxford, leading to deadly plots, salacious pictures and murder. G must stretch his mathematical mind to its limits to solve the mystery and...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A journalist and aspiring "speedcuber" attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik's Cube--think chess played at the speed of Ping-Pong--while exploring the Cube's rise to iconic status around the globe and the lessons that can be learned through solving it. When Hungarian professor Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in the 1970s out of wooden blocks, rubber bands, and paper clips, he didn't...