By Chris Smith, Jane Kent (author) , Elina Braslina (illustrator)
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A Fun, Colourful Maths Activity Book for Ages 7-9
Give your child a maths confidence-boost with this vibrant, hands-on activity book designed to make real-world learning fun.
Designed for children aged 7-9, it turns everyday situations - like cooking, sport, shopping, birthday parties and daily routines - into engaging maths challenges.
What's Inside Number writing and number-order puzzles
Seek-and-find counting activities
Shopping and mental-arithmetic games
Pattern-spotting and problem-solving tasks
Full-colour, joyful illustrations by Elina Braslina
This fun-packed activity book is based on lyrics by mathematician and musician Tom Lehrer and shows children that maths is useful, interesting and truly everywhere. A perfect choice for parents looking for playful, meaningful maths practice at home.
Award-Winning Companion Title, That's Mathematics was chosen as a Best Book for Year 1 by Books for Topics and shortlisted for both The Week Junior Book Awards and the SLA Information Book Award.
Tom Lehrer was an American satirist, singer-songwriter, musician and mathematician, most famous for his humorous songs from the 1950s and 60s, including The Elements, a tongue-twisting song with lyrics made up of every element in the Periodic Table. He began writing and performing his songs at Harvard University where he studied mathematics from the age of 15. After multiple albums, he largely gave up performing and began to teach mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, moving to the University of California in the 1970s. In 2020, at the age of 92, Lehrer donated all the lyrics and music written by him to the public domain. "His scathing creations remain one of the most original - not to mention mathematically elegant - bodies of artistic work to come out of the United States in the twentieth century." Andrew Robinson, author and journalist (Nature.com)"The cleverest and funniest man of the 20th century" Daniel Radcliffe (after singing The Elements on TV in 2020) Former Scottish Teacher of the Year, Chris Smith teaches, tweets, dreams and sings songs about maths. In 2020, Chris and a team of famous UK mathematical YouTubers created a video performing this song, which was the inspiration for the book. Chris hopes it will inspire a generation of mini mathematicians. "The world would be a better place if Mr Smith was everyone's maths teacher! Here's your chance to join him on a fabulously entertaining journey exploring how each of us is using Maths all the time." Bobby Seagull, mathematician, broadcaster and writer Elina Braslina has illustrated over 25 children's and YA books by authors from her home country of Latvia. Her board books by Lawrence Schimel depicting LGBTQ families have been published in 21 languages. She is also a production designer for animated films and makes feminist art in her spare time.
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A Fun, Colourful Maths Activity Book for Ages 7-9 Give your child a maths confidence-boost with this vibrant, hands-on activity book designed to make real-world learning fun. Designed for children aged 7-9, it turns everyday situations - like cooking, sport, shopping, birthday parties and daily routines - into engaging maths challenges.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed That's Mathematics Activity Book and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
That's Mathematics Activity Book features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Activity and Puzzle Books, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mathematics and numbers, Early years: numbers and counting, Early years: size, shapes and patterns, Early years: time and seasons, Children’s interactive and activity books and kits, Recommendations, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Hobbies, quizzes, toys and games, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Science, First Concepts, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
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That's Mathematics Activity Book was written by Chris Smith, Jane Kent and published by Mama Makes Books
That's Mathematics Activity Book has 48 pages
£7.19, reduced from £7.99. In Stock.
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