Train your brain to be a math genius / written by Mike Goldsmith ; consultant, Branka Surla ; illustrated by Seb Burnett.

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  • Data Source:DLC
  • LCCN:2011277859
  • ISBN:9780756697969 (hbk.) : $15.99
  • ISBN:0756697964 (hbk.)
  • Local System #:(OCoLC)ocn777653744
  • Cataloging Source:BTCTA eng BTCTA BDX OCO ORX [email protected] DLC TnLvILS
  • Authentication code:lccopycat
  • LC Call Number:QA95 .G62 2012
  • Dewey Decimal Classification Number:510
  • Personal Author:Goldsmith, Mike, 1982-
  • Cover title:How to be a math genius : your brilliant brain and how to train it
  • Portion of title:Math genius
  • Edition:1st American ed.
  • Publication Info:London ; New York : DK Pub., 2012.
  • Physical Description:128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
  • General Note:Includes index.
  • Summary:Put your math brain to the test and see how it measures up to a series of number games, logic problems, shape puzzles, and other activities.
  • Contents:A world of math -- Math brain. Meet your brain -- Math skills -- Learning math -- Brain vs. machine -- Problems with numbers -- Women and math -- Seeing the solution -- Inventing numbers. Learning to count -- Number systems -- Big zero -- Pythagoras -- Thinking outside the box -- Number patterns -- Calculation tips -- Archimedes -- Math that measures -- How big? How far? -- The size of the problem -- Magic numbers. Seeing sequences -- Pascal's triangle -- Magic squares -- Missing numbers -- Karl Gauss -- Infinity -- Numbers with meaning -- Number tricks -- Puzzling primes -- Shapes and space. Triangles -- Shaping up -- Shape shifting -- Round and round -- The third dimension -- 3-D shape puzzles -- 3-D fun -- Leonhard Euler -- Amazing mazes -- Optical illusions -- Impossible shapes -- A world of math. Interesting times -- Mapping -- Isaac Newton -- Probability -- Displaying data -- Logic puzzles and paradoxes -- Breaking codes -- Codes and ciphers -- Alan Turing -- Algebra -- Brainteasers -- Secrets of the universe -- The big quiz.
  • Subject term:Mathematical recreations--Juvenile literature.
  • Subject term:Mathematics--Juvenile literature.
  • Subject term:Mathematical recreations.
  • Subject term:Mathematics.
  • Added Entry-Personal Name:Burnett, Seb,
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  • Branch: North Logan City Library
  • Material: Book
  • Call Number: JUV 510 GOLDS
  • Copies: 1
  • Location: Children's Non-Fiction