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The numberverse : how numbers are bursting out of everything and just want to have fun / Andrew Day ; edited by Peter Worley

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Carmarthen, Wales : Crown House Publishing, 2014Description: v, 253 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781845908898
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 513.5
Contents:
This and that make ten : number bond operations
The real deal : numbers, digits and numerals
1, 2, 3, lots : the purpose and scope of numbers
Two square thoughts : the nature of numbers
Base jumping : the decimal system and its alternatives
A jump to the left ... and a step to the right : place value
A plus point : addition and the beginning of mathematics
Don't drag the tables : rote learning
The cocky chicken : mathematical knowledge and logic
Square are they? : Shapes and definitions
Prime innit, sir : prime numbers
Arch angles : geometry in art
Less to square : square numbers
The land is my land : area
Zero the hero : the history and development of our number system
Squintasticadillion and one : high numbers and the invention of numerical terms
Beauty secrets : the golden section in art and nature
A bit more than three : pi, and the perimeter and area of circle
Inbetweeny bits : the concept of fractions
Half to you : fractions in everyday language
Action fractions : the practical application of fractions
Go compare : percentage
Your average number : averages - mode, median and mean
Our street : geometry in the built environment
Sets education : sets and the individual's number line
Stairs into space : estimating, reasoning and dividing
Bone setting : algebra
Voyager : maths as universal truth
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Circulation C 513.5 D273n 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 125322d

Includes bibliographical references (page 251).

This and that make ten : number bond operations

The real deal : numbers, digits and numerals

1, 2, 3, lots : the purpose and scope of numbers

Two square thoughts : the nature of numbers

Base jumping : the decimal system and its alternatives

A jump to the left ... and a step to the right : place value

A plus point : addition and the beginning of mathematics

Don't drag the tables : rote learning

The cocky chicken : mathematical knowledge and logic

Square are they? : Shapes and definitions

Prime innit, sir : prime numbers

Arch angles : geometry in art

Less to square : square numbers

The land is my land : area

Zero the hero : the history and development of our number system

Squintasticadillion and one : high numbers and the invention of numerical terms

Beauty secrets : the golden section in art and nature

A bit more than three : pi, and the perimeter and area of circle

Inbetweeny bits : the concept of fractions

Half to you : fractions in everyday language

Action fractions : the practical application of fractions

Go compare : percentage

Your average number : averages - mode, median and mean

Our street : geometry in the built environment

Sets education : sets and the individual's number line

Stairs into space : estimating, reasoning and dividing

Bone setting : algebra

Voyager : maths as universal truth

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