It starts with how to add, then leads you through almost everything including long division, decimals, algebra, line/area/volume, probability and even ends up with a look at logarithms! Equations: PHX 19-45, quadratic PHX 56-66, simultaneous PHX 147-156, names of different types MM1 94, The first two books have now been edited together to produce a book suited to younger readers: The Brain-Bending Basics.

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.) Chess board curiosities: MMoE 7-8, 85-87, chess and dominoes MM2 14-23, How many squares on a chess board?, The Knight's Move Magic Square, The Eight Queens Chess Puzzle, The Chess Board IllusionYou can find out how the ancient Greeks found prime numbers up to 100 and beyond using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. 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. Square Roots: EQEA 18-22, How to work out Square Roots without a calculator, square root of i The Research Lab

Magic Squares: MOM 48-62, MM1 103-106, How to make 5x5 and 7x7 Magic Squares, How to make 4x4 Magic Squares Articles: Stories from "The Week" that amused us, The Cicadas 17-year Life Cycle, The Al-Gebra Movement, Cool Greek Maths Geeks AUTHORS LIVE: clips from a Murderous Maths event filmed at BBC Scotland and streamed to schools across the UK.Multiplying with index form: you must only add or subtract the indices and don't touch anything else: A recommendation of the series by Scientific American includes a quote from a Stanford engineer named Stacy F. Bennet, who described the series as "very humorous and engaging introductions to such topics as algebra, geometry and probability". [4] On 22 November 1997, that same publication said of the series, "Have a look at Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskitt. It is a truly addictive reading book, and was leapt on and devoured by my children. The book is full of awful jokes, fascinating facts, real murders and yes, the maths is good too. This is a brilliant book." Resources (including past papers and revision notes) prepared by qualified teachers to help students studying for A Level, GCSE, IGCSE and IB exams. Teaching math to young homeschool students can be fun when applied to the activities of daily home life. Renovations and

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! It starts with how to add and subtract, works through multiplying and long division, then takes on everything else including fractions, decimals, percentages, speed, algebra, area and volume, conversions, measurements, probability and more! Pythagoras: MMoE 19-22, MM2 81-88 construction theorem proof SAVSH 148-159, EQEA 25-28, cut and paste theorem proof EQEA 26, ASAS 202-207 How do guitar strings make different notes? All Shapes and Sizes is an abridged version of "Savage Shapes" and also includes sections from Desperate Measures and other MM titles. There's nothing more agonising than doing all your work for an exam and then doing something silly to ruin yourPresented in a question and answer format, lots of key maths topics are demonstrated in use including:

moment to tell us a bit about who YOU are ( student -parent - teacher ?), where you are, how you discovered Murderous Maths and if we've helped you. 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.)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.) The resource sheets can be printed off and copied for your own or classroom use, but MAY NOT be used for wider publication in any form without permission or credit. Thank you. Newton: PSAUS 64-65. For a lot more information on forces, see "Isaac Newton and His Apple" by Kjartan Poskitt 144-157 year-olds (and their parents!) across the UK were moaning about this probability/algebra question in the GCSE maths exams. Eratosthenes: Sieve of Eratosthenes MMoE 14, Circumference of the Earth MMoE 37, Sieve of Eratosthenes