The Math Book for Girls: and Other Beings Who Count (Books for Girls)
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Books › Juvenile Nonfiction › Mathematics › General
ISBN: 1550745840 / Publisher: Kids Can Press, October 2000
Shows through puzzles and activities, that math is a part of everyday life and introduces women who use math in their daily jobs.
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This entertaining title in the Books for Girls series shows girls --- and boys, too --- that math is part of everyday life. They can try the math puzzles and activities to see for themselves how useful --- and how much fun --- math can be. They will also meet real women who use math in their jobs every day. Kids can learn why fractions are important when they bake a cake, develop spatial visualization skills by building a geodesic dome big enough to play in, use geometry to design unique wrapping paper, discover how grids simplify drawing pictures, and much more.
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