Math Wizardry for Kids: Solve Puzzles, Play Games, Have Fun! - Softcover

Margaret Kenda; Phyllis S. Williams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590032666 ISBN 13: 9780590032667

Publisher: Scholastic, 1998

Synopsis

Re-styled and featuring new, fun-to-do projects and color illustrations, this brand-new edition of Barron's Math Wizardry for Kids demonstrates to young readers that numbers are fascinating to ponder, fun to calculate, and an important key to scientific understanding. Kids explore intriguing concepts, such as Fibonacci numbers, which dramatically express symmetries in the shapes and number patterns that we regularly encounter in plant life and other aspects of nature. Among the recommended activities for young readers that are presented new in this edition are experiments with time--

Methods for measuring the Earth's rotation

Directions for making a sun dial to measure daylight hours

Suggestions for experimenting with a time-telling pendulum

Additional fun projects include constructing ciphers and cracking codes, managing money, devising a stock market game, thinking like a computer, and many others. The authors' suggested tools for becoming a math wizard are simple and easily available. They include plenty of paper (including graph and construction paper), pencils, a ruler, a drawing compass, a directional compass, a protractor, a triangle, a simple calculator, a notebook for recording observations, and miscellaneous art supplies. Add them together with this fascinating book and the result equals hours of fun. Color illustrations throughout.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
This new, fun-filled edition of Barron's Math Wizardry for Kids demonstrates to young readers that numbers are fascinating to ponder, fun to calculate, and the key to scientific understanding. Open this book and explore concepts, such as Fibonacci numbers, which dramatically express symmetries in the shapes and number patterns of plant life and other aspects of nature. You'll also discover how to perform math-based experiments, create ciphers, use math principles to crack codes, devise a stock market game, and much more.

Design one-of-a-kind puzzles

Send secret messages

Prove you're smarter than a computer

Make a sundial to measure daylight hours

Construct a time-telling pendulum

Math is both mind-expanding and fun--and Math Wizardry for Kids is the book that proves it!

Hundreds of color illustrations

About the Author

Margaret Kenda is a writer specializing in creative, hands-on projects for children. Her books' subjects include science, math, geography, inventions, language, and cooking. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds a doctorate from the University of Iowa. She lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590032666
• ISBN 13: 9780590032667
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Tim Robinson
• Number of pages: 325