Why do you see lightning before you hear thunder? What keeps the planets orbiting around the sun? What metal is a liquid at room temperature? Science affects everything -- yet so many of us wish we understood it better. Using an accessible question-and-answer approach, key concepts in biology, chemistry, physics, earth and general science are ......
This book set includes: One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Math Crack open this book to sharpen your logic and reasoning skills. These literature-based math mysteries take just one minute to read. The brainteasers are entertaining, but even better, their real-world connections help kids see math concepts and quandaries as ......
In his latest book, mathematician Alfred S. Posamentier provides easily understandable, easily presentable and easily replicated tricks that one can do with mathematics.
Make science the topic of the day! Compoung your knowledge with our award-winning books! These three science titles are just the ticket to engage, excite, and educate the kids. Real-life scenarios make science relevant to kids and pique their interest in biology, chemistry, physics, earth, and general science.
This book set includes: One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science Not your ordinary mystery book, One Minute Mysteries makes science fun! Each story, just one minute long, challenges your knowledge in earth, space, life, physical, chemical, and general science. No tools or special equipment required, all you need is a ......
Mathematical Gems, Peculiar Patterns, and More Stories of Numerical Serendipity
Featuring surprising trivia gems alongside serious questions like why there is something rather than nothing, readers will be enriched by this exploration of remarkable number coincidences and the mathematics that make them possible - and probable.
Introduces us to this extraordinary man, Dr Irving Joshua Matrix. Believed by many to be the greatest numerologist who ever lived, Dr Matrix claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. This title follows Dr Matrix as he roams the world and assumes new identities and discovers new manifestations of the power of numbers to explain and predict.
Contains Lewis Carroll's poem, "The Hunting of the Snark", along with Martin Gardner's "Snarkteasers", which includes questions, such as: can you rearrange the letters of ocean to spell something in which one can spend days in the ocean? But if the ocean is frisky, it's risky. Can you make the number even by crossing out one letter in Seven?