Through a combination of math games, logic puzzles, activities, and hands-on demonstrations with things like prisms, kids will explore math concepts with renewed excitement.
Relates the story of Leonhard Euler's discovery of the polyhedron formula and its impact on topology, covering how the Greeks and Descartes almost grasped the formula and how mathematicians since the nineteenth century have adapted the formula's scope for various uses.
Provides a simple introduction to position and direction through a story in which a boy moves to a new house, unpacks his things, and meets new friends. Includes related activities.
the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles
Szpiro, George
2008
Traces the history of the one-hundred-year quest to solve a mathematical mystery first posed by Jules Henri Poincar? and eventually solved in 2003 by Grigori Perelman, a reclusive young Russian.
the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles
Szpiro, George
2007
Traces the history of the one-hundred-year quest to solve a mathematical mystery first posed by Jules Henri Poincar? and eventually solved in 2003 by Grigori Perelman, a reclusive young Russian.