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32 pages
colour illustrations.
Contents: Maths all around us -- Measuring the Earth -- Amazing arches -- Keeping time -- Circling the sun -- Seeing farther -- Tough triangles -- Ones and zeros -- The metric revolution -- It's elementary! -- Finding our way.
Summary: Explore how mathematics has shaped how we look at and understand the world. From figuring out Earth's circumference using geometry to developing load-bearing arches, young readers will be engaged as they learn about real world math applications.
It's a mathematical world.