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Goldsmith, Mike, 1962-

Train your brain to be a maths genius written by Mike Goldsmith ; consultant, Branka Surla ; illustrated by Deb Burnnett. - London : Dorling Kindersley, 2012. - 128 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes index.

A world of maths --
Maths brain : Meet your brain --
Maths skills --
Learning maths --
Brain vs. machine --
Problems with numbers --
Women and maths --
Seeing the solution --
Inventing numbers : learning to count --
Number systems --
Big zero --
Pythagoras --
Thinking outside the box --
Number patterns --
Calculation tips --
Archimedes --
Maths and 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 maths : 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.


Make your brain a maths brain! Packed with things to do, Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius, will help you calculate equations that will make your knees tremble, it will make fretting about fractions a thing of the past, and best of all - it's great fun!

ISBN: 9781409384021

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mathematics--Juvenile literature.
Mathematics.

LC Class. No.: QA 40.5 / .G574 2012