Product Description

In this children's exploration of mathematical ideas, Penrose takes a journey to meet the Zeros and the Ones, discovers mathematical stars and learns the truth about infinity. He meets Mr Abacus and discovers the mystery of the triangle of numbers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60721 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

From the Publisher
Mathematics with Penrose can be fun & educational.
Join Penrose on a mad cap tour of mathematical ideas. Venture with him when he discovers how to help the ÷2. Meet the fractal dragon. Watch a tangram egg hatch, learn how to make a square become a bird, help nanocat get back home, and many more amusing, entertaining and informative tales. All told in an enchanting and captivating style that is sure to make mathematics fun as well as educational. The reader will gain new insights and appreciation for mathematics and its many facets. "Students will find the stories interesting and will be challenged by the suggested activities and questions. Useful as motivational stories and extensions of their lesson. This book will help teachers develop a better understanding of skills and concepts and to motivate students to really like mathematics." (Shirley Roberts, Teaching Children Mathematics)

From the Author
A Kittys Mathmatical adventure!
I Think I really Did a good job on this one kids should have a fun time learning but not knowing they are learning at the same time!!! Hope you and your child(ren) will enjoy this one!

Customer Reviews

25 mindstretching ideas for all ages
This book has 25 short chapters with lovely simple story lines used to introduce all sorts of wonderful concepts to virtually anybody. I am using it with my 7 year old son who loves it. It will introduce you to irrational numbers, infinity, magic squares, tesselations, golden rectangles, origami, tangrams, fibonacci, fractals, mobius strips, impossible figures, binary, how to search for patterns... There are one or two typos in the book (3 1/2 = 7/3??) so make sure you read it through carefully before reading it aloud to a young child. It has just enough examples and problems to get children *doing* maths rather than just thinking about it, and it manages to inspire lots of further questions ("If rational and irrational numbers are both members of the family of real numbers, does that mean there are numbers that aren't real?") so be prepared to do your homework before lighting your children's curiosity! The book also manages to relate maths to real life; fractals in trees, geometry in soap bubbles - but does it in a way that inspires you to see beauty and patterns everywhere. The tangram egg is wonderful!

A different look at math for kids....
This books introduces math topics that kids dont' usually get exposed to until much later in school. The author opens up the idea that math is more than just math facts. The book is written in an easy-to-read style.