This entertaining title in the Books for Girls series shows girls --- and boys, too --- that math is part of everyday life. They can try the math puzzles and activities to see for themselves how useful --- and how much fun --- math can be. They will also meet real women who use math in their jobs every day.

Kids can learn why fractions are important when they bake a cake, develop spatial visualization skills by building a geodesic dome big enough to play in, use geometry to design unique wrapping paper, discover how grids simplify drawing pictures, and much more.

 

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Kids Can Press .

Pat Cupples is a children's illustrator whose many books include The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count and The Technology Book for Girls and Other Advanced Beings. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Adrienne Mason is an educator and author whose books include Owls, Snakes, Move It! and Touch It! She lives in Tofino, British Columbia. Valerie Wyatt is an award-winning author more than 14 nonfiction books, many of them about science. She also writes on historical topics and, from time to time, picture books.