Fabulous figures and cool calculations Cover Image

Book

Fabulous figures and cool calculations / Colin Stuart.

Stuart, Colin (Science writer), (author.). Yakman, Georgette, (consultant). Brandow, Annika, (Illustrator.).

Summary:

Presents thirty home experiments designed to explore the principles of mathematics, including cooking chocolate crispy cakes with ingredient ratios, building a 3-D pyramid, and making a clinometer.

Record details

ISBN: 9781438011356
ISBN: 1438011350
ISBN: 9780606412629
ISBN: 060641262X
Physical Description: 80 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Edition: First edition for the United States and Canada.
Publisher: Hauppauge, NY : Barron's, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Welcome to STEM Quest! -- Adding and subtracting -- Multiplying and dividing -- Positive and negative numbers -- Prime numbers and powers -- Factors and multiples -- Sequences -- Fabulous fractions -- Dive into decimals -- Perfect percentages -- Measurement and rounding -- Money and interest -- Going in circles -- Perimeter, area, and volume -- Crafty angles -- Terrific triangles -- Pythagorean Theorem and trigonometry -- 2-D shapes -- Tessellations -- 3-D shapes -- 3-D wonders -- Transformations -- Ratios -- Coordinates -- Charts and graphs -- Venn diagrams and set theory -- Averages -- Know your data -- Probability -- Rational and irrational numbers -- Math as a language -- Functions -- Algebra and formulas -- Binary and computing -- Reasoning and proofs.