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This entertaining title in the Books for Girls series shows girls â” and boys, too â” that math is part of everyday life. They can try the math puzzles and activities to see for themselves how useful â” and how much fun â” math can be. They will also meet real women who use math in their jobs every day.
Kids can learn why fractions are important when they bake a cake, develop spatial visualization skills by building a geodesic dome big enough to play in, use geometry to design unique wrapping paper, discover how grids simplify drawing pictures, and much more.
close this panelA useful book to enliven math studies and ground them in the real world ⦠Illustrations and diagrams throughout make this a clear and easy-to-use resource for some different and fun perspectives on the subject.
