The Book Depository Math Doesn't Suck by Danica Mckellar
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Description: Math Doesn't Suck : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780452289499 : 0452289491 : 01 Jul 2008 : In this national bestseller, actress and internationally recognized mathematician Mc Kellar (The Wonder Years) shows middle-school girls that math can be easy, relevant, and even glamorous, and provides them with the tools to ace their next test. Illustrations. The Book Depository Math Doesn't Suck by Danica Mckellar - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780452289499
MPN: 0452289491
GTIN: 9780452289499
Author: G. Smith
Rating: 5
Review: This is an excellent book. It teaches maths in a light hearted and easy to learn way and it doesn't assume previous knowledge nor does it preach to you. The book is intended for girls and young women and goes beyond the maths and helps to empower the young female readers and I celebrate that! Nevertheless that means parts of the book don't relate to me as a man. That doesn't mean that a man cannot have any female role models. There is a little exercise in the book where you are asked to think of two great women you would have as role models, I got into this a little bit and one of my choices would be Gloria Steinem. She's intelligent, compassionate, fair minded, well traveled and well informed and I would have liked to have seen her standing in the recent presidential election. I think she could have won it and the US would finally have it's first female president. But alas that wasn't to be. Anyway back to the book. I have one tiny criticism of it. Well maybe two. I bought the Kindle version of it. It is probably great as a physical book but there are technical problems with the Kindlised version. 1. The maths examples are tiny squiggles and because they are pictures you cant enlarge them by enlarging the text. The only way is to double tap them and expand the drawing. But that in most cases is impossible because of fat finger trouble. The only other way is for me to wear two pairs of reading glasses. 2. The answers at the back of the book. They relate to pages and of course the kindle does not have pages it has locations instead, so it's difficult to align the answere with the questions. A possible solution for this could be to number the in the convention of 1.1, 1.2 etc. 1.1 being chapter 1, question 1.
Author: David Voge
Rating: 3
Review: Service great, book not really what I had hope for, more work book on math rather than why women can enjoy math.
