The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Math for Kids
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-0-7603-7311-8 (ISBN)
Math for Kids, the fourth book of The Kitchen Pantry Scientist series, brings math to life through biography and creative engagement.
*2023 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book, Grades 3-5*
*2024 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Hands-On Science Book Longlist*
Go beyond counting. Solve puzzles, learn a magic trick, and play a ton of games.
This engaging guide offers a series of snapshots of 20+ mathematicians, from ancient history through today, paired with related hands-on projects perfect for a kitchen or a classroom. Each lab tells the story of a mathematician along with some background about the importance of their work, and a description of where it is still being used or reflected in today’s world.
A step-by-step illustrated game or activity paired with each story offers kids an opportunity to engage directly with concepts the mathematicians pursued, or are working on today. Experiments range from very simple projects using materials you probably already have on hand, to more complicated ones that may require a few inexpensive items you can purchase online. Just a few of the incredible people and scientific concepts you’ll explore:
Hypatia (b. ~350–370)
Square Wheels
Florence Nightingale (b. 1820)
Pizza Pie Charts
Emmy Noether (b. 1882)
Fabulous Folding Flexagons
Ron Graham (b. 1935)
Fibbonacci Spiral
Fan Chung (b. 1949)
Corners and Edges and Faces! Oh my!
With this fascinating, hands-on exploration of the history of mathematics, inspire the next generation of great mathematicians.
Dig into even more incredible science history from The Kitchen Pantry Scientist series with: Chemistry for Kids, Biology for Kids, Physics for Kids, and Ecology for Kids.
Rebecca Rapoport holds degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and Michigan State. From her first job out of college, as one of the pioneers of Harvard’s Internet education offerings, she has been passionate about encouraging her love for math in others. As an early contributor to both retail giant Amazon.com and Akamai Technologies, the number one firm in cloud computing, Rapoport played a key role in several elements of the Internet revolution. She then returned to her first love, education, as an innovator of new methods to introduce children and adults to the critically important world of STEAM education as COO of an enrichment center dedicated to helping kids explore the creative side of science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and is currently developing and teaching innovative math curricula in the Boston area. Rapoport is also the co-author of Math Games Lab for Kids (published by Quarry Books), a book of fun, hands-on math activities designed to introduce elementary and middle-school students to several areas of higher math; and the calendars Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2021, Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2020, Mathematics 2019: Your Daily Epsilon of Math, and The Mathematics Calendar 2018, all published by Rock Point. She has an Erdös number of 2.
Foreword by Liz Heinecke, The Kitchen Pantry Scientist
Introduction
Geometry:
Hypatia: Square Wheels
Maryam Mirzakhani: Straight Edge, Curved Slot
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.: Building Buildings
Fan Chung: Corners and Edges and Faces! Oh My!
Games:
John Conway: Dots & Boxes
Federico Ardila: Pigeons Love Holes
Srinivasa Ramanujan: Mancala
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī: Awesome Algebra
Art:
Grace Hopper: Binary Bracelet
Mary Everest Boole: Stitching Everest
Ron Graham: Fibonacci Spiral
Jennifer McLoud-Mann: Shape-Shifting
Statistics:
Gertrude Mary Cox: Bars, Short and Tall
Mary Cartwright: Organized Chaos
Florence Nightingale: Pizza Pie Charts
David Blackwell: Always Bet on Math
Nalini Joshi: The Three Boxes Problem
Recreational Math:
Persi Diaconis: Mathematical Magic
George Boole: The Princess’s Puzzles
Emmy Noether: Fabulous Folding Flexagons
Martin Gardner: A Heap of Hexagons
Final Project:
Shing-Tung Yau: Alien City
Hints and Solutions
Templates
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Illustrator
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Kitchen Pantry Scientist |
| Illustrationen | Kelly Anne Dalton |
| Zusatzinfo | 250+ color images |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Naturwissenschaft / Technik |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7603-7311-6 / 0760373116 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7603-7311-8 / 9780760373118 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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