The numberverse : how numbers are bursting out of everything and just want to have fun

Day, Andrew

The numberverse : how numbers are bursting out of everything and just want to have fun / Andrew Day ; edited by Peter Worley - v, 253 pages : illustrations

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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