Murderous Maths: Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain. Kjartan Poskitt

by Kjartan Poskitt

Book Overview

An alternative guide to maths which introduces One Finger Jimmy, Chainsaw Charlie and their ghastly gangster friends, who are living proof that maths really can be murderous. Among the items featured... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407105884
• ISBN13: 9781407105888
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fun Reading

I've been looking for books that will make math interesting for a while. This series has been translated into Chinese and is very popular in China. I bought this book for my son for his seventh birthday. He loves the book. He finished the book on the day he got it. Then he borrowed my calculator to check out the tricks talked in the book and showed them to us. During the past month, he read the book over and over again. I'm reading the book too. It introduces math concepts in an easy understanding and funny way.There many comic strips in the book. You need be able to do long chapter reading to enjoy this book. For the math part, a first grader can understand most of of it ( I haven't finished the book yet). I'm thinking of buy other books in the series already.

Math and jokes too

Murderous Maths is a terrific book despite the title, it teaches a lot but will keep you interested with its way of teaching and its balanced amount of jokes. The cartoons are funny but you have to think before you understand them. Such as division, it teaches you how to master it in about 5 minutes. It also tells about signs such as approximately equals and not equal, and about factors too. I am 9 years old but I learned a lot!