 | The Nothing That is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan
Buy used from: £1.35 history of zero - very readable; nicely written not too techie
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 | The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.39 history and details of code breaking - started me on a trak to read more about Walsingham
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 | Fermat's Last Theorem: The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years by Simon Singh
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.46 you have to wonder about a guy who was so possessed that he did this on his own as a secret for more than ten years
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 | How Long Is a Piece of String? by Rob Eastaway
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 addictive reading by a really math friendly author
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 | Beating the Odds: The Hidden Mathematics of Sport by Rob Eastaway
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.46 will get any boy even vagule interested in sport interested in the maths behind it
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 | Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics by Ian Stewart
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £2.58 entertaining holiday reading for math teachers
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 | Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring) by Ian Stewart
Buy new: £6.20 / Used from: £3.39 for budding young mathematicians who wonder what more there is to it than in school
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 | Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics by George F. Simmons
Buy used from: £19.57 brilliant history of amous mathematics and folk who discovered it
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 | 1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics by David Acheson
Buy new: £10.40 / Used from: £9.11 magic tricks with numbers and some interesting facts behind them
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 | Assessment for Learning: Putting it into Practice by Paul Black
Buy new: £15.72 / Used from: £14.72 AFL in a nutshell - the originator's ideas
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 | Mathematical Team Games: Enjoyable Activities to Enhance the Curriculum by Vivien Lucas
Buy used from: £27.10 Brilliant activities - any book by tarquin is a classroom winner
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 | Mathematics Counts: Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics in Schools by Dept.of Education & Science
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £3.37 1983 edition - the original report into maths - everything comes around again
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 | Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen) by Barry Mazur
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £2.92 a layman's guide to the conundrum that is imaginary numbers
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 | 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £4.40 the fundamentals of 50 maths ideas each written in a nutshell - quite clever stuff
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 | Extension Mathematics: Year 7: Alpha (Extension Mathematics Ks3) by Tony Gardiner
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £11.07 good series of KS3 extension books with really outstanding ideas for extending G&T
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 | The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.69 KS"/3 fiction to entrance children with ideas in maths
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