This book highlights one or more mathematical concepts, ideas or symbols for each letter of the alphabet. It offers a thorough description of each term, often with possible connections to other topics. As well, interesting (and sometimes humourous) examples are included. A table of contents and a glossary are provided.

Mr. and Mrs. Comfort have arranged eight tables and 32 chairs to seat their invited relatives at the family reunion. Pandemonium erupts as each new group of guests suggests its own ideas for seating and subsequently alters the table arrangements. As the dining room is reconfigured into tables for six, eight and twelve people, the guests continue to dispute over inadequate seating and the placement of silverware. Eventually, the tables are rearranged in Mrs. Comfort's original seating plan. An...

Geometric progressions are explored in this resource as a vain king insists that a wise man accept a reward for his service. The man reluctantly requests a daily payment of rice that is to be doubled for each square of the chessboard. The unwitting monarch grants the request and subsequently drains the royal granaries of its rice supply. The watercolour illustrations amplify the king's anguish as he realizes the folly of his decision and his eventual concession that pride can make a fool of o...

Miss Bloom runs the Strawberry Inn and just loves visitors. One day, she welcomes a duchess, a dog trainer, a sea captain, a salesperson and a race car driver. In the middle of the night, Miss Bloom realizes something is not right; she forgot to serve dessert. As she enters the kitchen, all the guests are eating strawberry cake with whipped cream, with one remaining piece for Miss Bloom.

Mr. Tiffin brings three pumpkins to class - one large, one medium and one small pumpkin. Robert guesses that the largest pumpkin has one million seeds, Elinor thinks that the medium pumpkin has 500 seeds and Anna estimates that the little pumpkin contains 22 seeds. Charlie does not guess at all. The students think of different groupings to count the seeds in the pumpkins. The class learns that being the largest pumpkin does not mean it contains the most pumpkin seeds.

Set in the palace of a powerful Chinese warlord, Chuan and his friend Jing Jing, the puppet master's daughter, devise a plan to save the palace from destruction in the face of their enemy's invading army. Together, they use their mathematical and critical thinking skills to construct three kites which they use at nighttime to frighten off the invading army. In the construction process, they use nonstandard units of measurement and multiplication by an array, which illustrates the relationship...

This resource gives quick, easy-to-read facts that connect math and numbers to the real world. The graphics and diagrams show how math is everywhere around us and how we use math without even realizing it. Humans have been counting for hundreds of thousands of years and this book shows how we plan, organize and work with numbers every day.

This book from the series The Amazing World of Math explores how numbers, angles and shapes are found everywhere in nature. Radial symmetry in animals and plants, the formation of snowflakes, and the shapes of the rocks in Giant's Causeway in Ireland are just some of the topics included in this book.

This book from the series The Amazing World of Math explores how numbers, angles and shapes are found everywhere in art and sports. The rules of composition and dimension in visual art, rhythm in poetry and music, and angles in basketball and golf are some of the topics included in this book.