What's the Point of Math?
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Math makes the world go around. An educational book that will give you surprising answers to everyday math challenges. This book unpacks how math is an essential part of our everyday life in ways that you never thought of. Full of crazy facts, magic tricks, and mathematical brainteasers and beautiful illustrations show you that math is interesting, fun, and not intimidating at all! Ever wondered where math originated from? This fantastic educational book unpacks all the curious questions that your child has about math including intriguing historical stories that explore the often-surprising origins of math that we use in our daily lives. Learn about how the formation of number sequences began, to the origins of trigonometry, and find out how to become a trillionaire! Math in our daily lives is used in many things that might not even seem that obvious. Math Controls Just About Everything Inspire your children with numbers and help bring mathematical explanations to life with this engaging educational book. Expand their knowledge in the complexity of understanding math by using simple illustrative examples. To make these topics more exciting and impactful, the book is full of great puzzles, awesome games, and interesting facts that will break barriers in their understanding. "Try it out" examples give mathematical explanations that are simple and easy to grasp. What’s The Point Of Math? will not only change your child’s perception of numbers but give them the skills and understanding to apply the principles in their everyday life! This educational book explains the point of: - Numbers and counting - Shapes and measuring - Patterns and sequences - Probability and logic - Data and statistics Review: Unique - This book is fascinating for adults as well as children. I've never before seen anything like it, explaining what math is used for and great discoveries through the ages. The authors' efforts to strike a gender balance in what has historically been an almost entirely all-male field would be more successful if they looked to the more recent past, though, such as the enabling of artificial intelligence neural networks by the ImageNet picture database assembled in 2010 by Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University. Review: Makes Math Fun and Relatable – A Hit for My 7-Year-Old! - I bought this for my son, and it’s been a fantastic way to answer that age-old question: "Why do I need to learn this?" What's the Point of Math? does an incredible job of breaking down complex concepts into visual, easy-to-digest stories. It shows how math is used in everything from sports stats and architecture to space travel and everyday life. For a kid who loves baseball, seeing how numbers work in the real world has been a huge lightbulb moment. The illustrations are vibrant and the explanations are clear without being condescending. It’s transformed math from a school subject into a fascinating tool for understanding the world. Highly recommended for any curious young mind!
| Best Sellers Rank | #37,660 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #150 in Children's General Study Aid Books #280 in Children's History #281 in Children's Math Books (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,674 Reviews |
P**A
Unique
This book is fascinating for adults as well as children. I've never before seen anything like it, explaining what math is used for and great discoveries through the ages. The authors' efforts to strike a gender balance in what has historically been an almost entirely all-male field would be more successful if they looked to the more recent past, though, such as the enabling of artificial intelligence neural networks by the ImageNet picture database assembled in 2010 by Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University.
J**.
Makes Math Fun and Relatable – A Hit for My 7-Year-Old!
I bought this for my son, and it’s been a fantastic way to answer that age-old question: "Why do I need to learn this?" What's the Point of Math? does an incredible job of breaking down complex concepts into visual, easy-to-digest stories. It shows how math is used in everything from sports stats and architecture to space travel and everyday life. For a kid who loves baseball, seeing how numbers work in the real world has been a huge lightbulb moment. The illustrations are vibrant and the explanations are clear without being condescending. It’s transformed math from a school subject into a fascinating tool for understanding the world. Highly recommended for any curious young mind!
N**K
Fantastic read.
Fantastic book and material.
A**1
Fun book
This is a fun book that shows math at work in everyday situations throughout history. My math-hating voracious readers are loving it.
K**A
Great Supplement for Homeschool
The print is good and the illustrations are high quality. I use it to gove context to the concepts my child is learning in homeschool math. It has helped alot!
M**N
Good book!
I picked this book up for my 5-year-old. He has a talent/aptitude for numbers and math, but has only started reading... so this is advanced for him. But I figured that numbers and math aren't just a fun game to play... numbers and math are a language and tool that can be used to do some really big and important things! I do have to help him out reading it at the moment. But it's a very nice book, and I think that, in not-too-far into the future, he'll be able to read and enjoy it more.
K**A
Intuitive and informative
Bought a second copy for my niece and nephew!
T**I
I'm in love with this book
I got this for homeschooling. This book really answers the age old question, and it does it in a way that is entertaining and captivating. Great illustrations; great explanations and examples...for something that is technically a reference book, it's really a page-turner. Seriously, I enjoyed it so much that I have read it cover to cover just because it never stopped being interesting. There's a whole line of these "What's the point of" books, and I intend to get every single one of them.
R**R
A must read book for kids in elementary.
My kid loved it, 100% quality, the material and the content. The way it uses common language to introduce kids into math is amazing. Full of interesting chapters.
D**W
A good book about mathematics.
The book is good for school going children. It explains maths and how it developed in the course of time. Worth buying.
C**N
Un libro che non dovrebbe mancare
Bellissimo libro Immagini stupende Ben curato Tutte le insegnanti di scuola primaria dovrebbero acquistarlo! Peccato che non esiste il libro tradotto in italiano
M**O
Me llego a tiempo y muy bien
No puedo opinar sobre el libro porque no es para mi
A**O
Learn something useful.
Good book where children can potentially learn something useful.
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