Groovy Geometry: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun (Magical Math) - Softcover

Long, Lynette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471210595 ISBN 13: 9780471210597

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2003

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Don't Just Learn Geometry...Master It! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you use common objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and every mathematician's basic tools: paper and pencil. Inside Groovy Geometry, you'll find all the geometry basics, plus information on how to figure out the height of any object from its shadow, find distances "as the crow flies," estimate the area of any space, and much more. While you play the Name Game and Rectangle Race, you'll learn how to draw, measure, and identify different kinds of angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals. And with fun activities like Bull's Eye and Pizza Party, you'll practice plotting coordinate points on a graph and measuring the area and diameter of a circle. Most important, you'll have a great time doing it! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master!

Biografía del autor

Lynette Long, Ph.D., is the author of several children's math books, including Fabulous Fractions, Measurement Mania, Dazzling Division, Marvelous Multiplication, and Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, all from Wiley. She has taught math and was a professor of education, specializing in mathematics education.

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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471210595
• ISBN 13: 9780471210597
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128