Mammoth Maths Workbook: Practise Your Maths Skills with a Little Help from Some Mammoths (DK David Macauley How Things Work) - Softcover

Macaulay, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241656788 ISBN 13: 9780241656785

Publisher: DK Children, 2024

Synopsis

Introducing an off-beat maths workbook to help you develop core number skills and more by award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay.

This interactive workbook, with mammoths as your guides, is a fun and light-hearted approach to improving maths skills for children aged 8-11.

Macaulay's endearing mammoths and elephant shrews will take you on a joyful journey through the basics of numbers, counting, calculating, measuring, shapes, data, puzzles, codes, and more! Each maths idea is explained, then reinforced with practice questions and fun activities. The answers are at the back, so you can check you're getting things right.

This fun maths workbook for children offers:

- Fun-filled illustrations show Macaulay’s mammoths exploring mathematical ideas – demonstrating key mathematical principles in unusual and amusing ways.
- An action-packed alternative to dry, unappealing maths textbooks.
- Supporting panels contain diagrams and extra information to aid understanding.
- Different chapters which each focus on a different branch of maths.

Do you struggle to engage with maths? Or are you a maths whizz who wants to learn more? Developed in conjunction with a maths teacher, the Mammoth Maths Workbook covers key areas of the curriculum for children aged 8-11, including fractions, decimal numbers, percentages, multiplication and division, measurement, geometry, patterns and sequences, ratio, and probability.

About this title

About the Author

British-American artist David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone. He has won numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. His work is renowned for its humour, detail, and ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius.

Edition details

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241656788
• ISBN 13: 9780241656785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160