Murderous Maths 9780439011563

First you learned to count. Wasn't that exciting? Then you found out how to do sums. Gosh! Now get ready for Murder

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Table of contents :
Murderous maths – are you kidding? 7
The basics 12
Professor Fiendish's fatal fungus 19
The best invention ever! 27
How our "ten" system works 32
Rubbish things about calculators 37
The long and short of it 45
Time? 52
Clocks 60
The quest for the right angle 72
The hard boys of maths 81
The magic square 103
Short-cuts 107
A really good magic trick 116
How to handle big numbers 125
Symmetry and the mindmashing maze 136

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