A fantastic guide to how Maths applies to everyday life!

Do you want to get the measure of the world around you? This book explores many aspects of measurement from the size of an atom or how to calculate a country's coastline to finding out the speed limit of the universe or how a computer tells the time. It explores all the different measures we use for lengths, areas, volumes and speeds, and shows you how to calculate them.

The book is part of the Maths is Everywhere series, which demystifies all aspects of maths and shows how it relates to your everyday world with fun, colourful graphics. These are fantastic books for children aged nine plus who are studying maths, or for anyone who wants to get to grips with maths in a fun way.

This book is part of a book series called Maths Is Everywhere .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Rob Colson is an author and editor of a wide range of books for children and adults, including many natural history, maths and science titles. His previous titles as author include Ultimate Cars, Ultimate Machines (Wayland); Super Science (Franklin Watts); Bone Collection: Animals (Scholastic), and Puzzles, Conundrums and Enigmas (Parragon).

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: A history of measuring
• 1: Length and distance
• 1: Huge distances
• 1: Tiny distances
• 1: Area
• 1: Volume
• 1: Speed and velocity
• 1: Weight and mass
• 1: Temperature
• 1: Telling the time
• 1: What are we measuring?
• 1: How fast is your computer?
• 1: Quiz
• 1: Glossary
• 1: Index and Answers