Murderous Maths

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Teaching math to young homeschool students can be fun when applied to the activities of daily home life. Renovations and The 5ecret L1fe of Code5 (previously Codes: How to Make Them and Break Them), ISBN 978-1-4071-0715-8 (patterns, logic and deduction, prime numbers, high powers, modular arithmetic.)

Triangle Numbers: MM2 123-130, KEY 54-56, PSAUS 17-18, 21, 89, MMoE 18, The link between Squared Triangle and Cube Numbers, KEY 64-65 If you've seen one of Kjartan's sessions, these are some of the resource sheets he uses so you can print out further copies. wages for finding mistakes, so he hates to see anyone throw marks away. He pointed out a few of the If I could get them to put the books down I know they would say, "Thanks for making learning so much fun!" Or, more likely, "Dude, your books are funny." Either way it means the same thing!

The "24" Mystery!

in computer science, especially in computer programming and cryptography. Math students who plan on getting an Find how to make your birthday last twice as long, how prime numbers can stop you from being eaten and build a pile of pennies higher than the sun! A Murderous Maths fan called OBAID pointed out that if you square ANY prime number bigger then 3, then subtract 1, the answer always divides by 24! The Mean & Vulgar Bits (previously The Mean & Vulgar Bits: Fractions and Averages), ISBN 0-439-01270-8 (fractions, converting improper and mixed fractions, adding subtracting multiplying and dividing fractions, primes and prime factors, reducing fractions, highest common factor and lowest common denominators, Egyptian fractions, comparing fractions, cancelling out fractions, converting fractions to decimals, decimal place system, percentages: increase and decrease, averages: mean mode and median.)

Square Roots: EQEA 18-22, How to work out Square Roots without a calculator, square root of i The Research Lab Lithuanian, Korean, Danish, Chinese, Portugese, French, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, Thai, Portuguese (Latin America)... Here are the instructions to draw the diagram pictured on the right. (Photo taken at the North East Maths Fair June 2001) If you understand algebra, (and you've read The Phantom X ) then you'll know that all prime numbers can be written as (6n+1) or (6n-1). SQUARE (shape): how to draw with ruler and compasses SAVSH 74-76, how to fold SAVSH 94, dividing a square into smaller squares all of different sizes EQEA 29.mega prime numbers. You can find how this works in The Secret Life of Codes. There's even a VERY simple prime code in the

MISCELLANEOUS FUN You probably don't need this, but just in case... "It's all here. Enough maths to get you through any and every day, and perhaps help adults keep up with their kids -now there's a thought...ENJOY!" Johnny Ball Extremely rare picture of Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve both smiling because they each think the other one is about to pay the restaurant bill. Question: If the probability of throwing a dart and hitting the bullseye wearing a blindfold = 0.0025 Easy Questions, Evil Answers, ISBN 1-407-11451-4 (formulas, working out square roots by hand, π, Pythagoras, paradoxes, problem solving, metric prefixes, large numbers, vectors.)Magic Squares: MOM 48-62, MM1 103-106, How to make 5x5 and 7x7 Magic Squares, How to make 4x4 Magic Squares