Young readers can discover the wacky, weird and incredible side of math with this hands-on, inspirational and accessible guide, written by award-winning author Anna Claybourne.

This book will show children math from a completely new angle - and we're not just talking about geometry! Inside you will find genius number tricks, secret shortcuts, impossible shapes, cool codes and awesome experiments. Readers will be ditching their preconceptions about math and sketching, writing, and drawing directly into the book. And if they make a mistake? That's just part of the fun!

- Explore how art and math intersect by exploring subjects such as symmetry and tessellation.
- Create and crack clever codes.
- Explore math illusions.
- Play an ancient shape game!
- Rediscover subjects such as geometry, pi, and measurement in a completely new light.

This book covers key mathematical concepts in new ways, including angles, percentages, trigonometry, symmetry and even Pi numbers, and will open children's eyes to a new world of fun and possibilities!

Delightfully illustrated in full-color, it's perfect for readers aged 8+

About the Author

Anna Claybourne is the author of numerous books on science and the natural world for young readers, including the Brain Games: Experiments (National Geographic, 2022), The Story of Inventions (Usborne, 2007) and many more. She is the winner of several awards, including the ASE Book of the Year Award, and the Times Educational Supplement Senior Information Book Award for her title The World of Shakespeare, as well as being shortlisted for many awards, including the Blue Peter Book Award, the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the English Association 4-11 awards 2017.

Shanarama is a writer and illustrator of children's books, with a background in film set design which has informed her storytelling abilities. Shanarama enjoys working in both traditional and digital methods, often blending the two elements together, as can be seen through her use of pencil and graphite, with digital coloring. In 2018 she was Runner-up in the Stratford Literary Festival Children's Book Competition. She lives in London.

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