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Oxford Primary Maths Dictionary
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in the main body of the book.
Attractive for 'browse and learn'
and for looking up a particular word
Product Description
This work contains over 400 maths words in alphabetical order. It presents straightforward definitions supported by examples, colourful artwork, and diagrams. It also contains an illustrated section at the back on themes such as symbols, tables and useful formulae. It provides support for parents for the mathematical words children are required to use at school. Peter Patilla is a key infant maths specialist and the author of "My First Oxford Maths Dictionary", "Starting Off With", and "My First Books of" series. He not only writes but advises and consults for publishers and INSET.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #405240 in Books
- Published on: 2003-02-06
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Customer Reviews
A Maths Dictionary that does exactly what it should do!
'128 pages - contains over 600 words in alphabetical order, each with an easy-to-understand meaning.
The words are drawn from the words used in primary school mathematics teaching, along with maths words that are in common everyday use.
Where a word has several meanings, all are given.
Explanatory pictures and diagrams help make the meanings of entries clear.'
This dictionary stood out from the rest for our testers in KS 2, age 7-11 years.
For the younger group it sorted out the 'am and pm' dilemma and helped them to understand the terms 'AD and BC'.
Colourful graphs show eg 'Grouped Data, Bar Charts, Bar-Line Graphs, Block Graphs, Pictograms, Pie Charts etc, which helped older children with data handling and presentation exercises.
Each word has a description then a 'keyword indicator box', for additional information e.g.:-
'ANGLE'- 'An angle is an amount of a turn. Angles can be measured in degrees'
Two clear diagrams illustrate this and the keywords point to supplementary sections of:- acute angle, degree, obtuse angle, right angle, vertex.
At the top age end it still presents as an informative book which is easy to grab and look up, like a well-thumbed reference book should be!
Try this one for example - 'Eratosthenes Sieve'(an early method of identifying 'prime numbers', founded by the Greek mathematician, Eratosthenes who lived between 275 and 195BC)!
An apparatus section, followed by information sections/tables further enhance the book which is completed by a comprehensive index.
Money well spent!
Is a square a rhombus?
I am a graduate with 'A' level maths (and incidentally author of the crazy golf odyssey 'Nutters with Putters') and wanted a reference book for my 9 year old.
We were discussing polygons and polyhedrons and I asked my son to look up 'polyhedron'.
I was dismayed that a picture of an octahedron was described as a tetrahedron!
So I decided to give the book a quick scan for other errors and it didn't take me long to find a host more. I wont detail them all here.
The definition for 'diagonal' is wrong. The explanations for cube roots and particularly square roots were very poor. I wasn't aware that there was a symbol for 'indirect proportion' but there is one for direct proportion which wasn't listed. Also not listed under division is the '/' symbol. Where is the definition for Trapezoid? The 'link words' should have been more thorough, 'cube' should link to 'power' for instance. What is the audience in the UK for this publication? If, it is as the title suggests when was the last time the publishers viewed the relevant curricula?
And I would have liked a little section at the back on common prefixes (poly, deci, equi etc) and suffixes. A 'family tree' of triangles and quadrilaterals would be nice too! I expected much more given that this is from the Oxford University Press.
And back to the original question and the answer is I'm not sure! Not sure at all!!
oxford mathds dictionary
Fantastic book, clearly laid out and easy to use. Has been a great help with homework and would thoroughly recommend to help mums and dads to help understand the terminology now used in schools. Would not be without it.
