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Author Hirsch, Rebecca E., author.

Title Garfield's almost-as-great-as-doughnuts guide to math / Rebecca E. Hirsch.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, [2020]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 510.9 HIRSCH    Check Shelf
Description 32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Series Garfield's fat cat guide to STEM breakthroughs
Audience Ages 7-11.
Grades 4 to 6.
Summary "Explore breakthroughs in the history of math with comical commentary from Garfield the cat--who would really rather just be eating doughnuts."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The beginning of numbers -- Ancient Egyptians -- Babylonians -- Ancient Greeks -- Eratosthenes -- Zero -- The abacus -- Fibonacci -- Math symbols -- Binary numbers -- The first computer -- Modern computers -- Breakthrough of the future? -- Paws-on project.
Subject Garfield (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Garfield (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00938020
Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN 9781541546417 (lb ; alk. paper)
1541546415 (lb ; alk. paper)
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