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Author Rapoport, Rebecca, author.

Title Math for kids : fun math games and activities inspired by awesome mathematicians, past and present! with 20+ illustrated biographies of amazing mathematicians from around the world / Rebecca Rapoport and Allanna Chung ; foreword by Liz Lee Heinecke.

Publication Info. Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, 2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 510 RAPOPORT    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 510 RAP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 920 RAP    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 510.92 RAP    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  J510.92 RA    Check Shelf
Description 128 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Series The kitchen pantry scientist
Kitchen pantry scientist.
Note Includes index.
Summary "The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Math for Kids features biographies of 20+ leading mathematicians, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging games and activities to bring the history and principles of math alive"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Geometry -- Games -- Art -- Statistics -- Recreational math -- Final project.
Geometry - Hypatia : Square wheels - Maryam Mirzakhami : Straight edge, curved slot - J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. : Building buildings - Fan Chung: Corners and edges and faces! Oh my! -- Games - John Conway : Dots and boxes - Federico Ardila : Pigeons love holes - Srinivasa Ramanujan : Mancala - Muhammad ibn Mũsã al-Khwãrizmĩ --- Art - Grace Hopper : Binary braclet - Mary Everest Boole : Stitching Everest - Ron Graham : Fibonacci spiral - Jennifer McLoud-Mann --- 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
Subject Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematical recreations -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematical recreations. (OCoLC)fst01012120
Mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst01012154
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Biographies.
Added Author Chung, Allanna, author.
Other Form: Online version: Rapoport, Rebecca. Kitchen pantry scientist math for kids Beverly : Quarry Books, 2022 9780760373125 (DLC) 2022012319
ISBN 9780760373118 (trade paperback)
0760373116 (trade paperback)
9780760373125 (ebook)
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