TY - BOOK AU - Goldsmith, Mike, AU - Surla,Branka AU - Burnnett,Deb TI - Train your brain to be a maths genius SN - 9781409384021 (hbk) U1 - 510 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Dorling Kindersley KW - Mathematics KW - Juvenile literature KW - Brain N1 - Cover subtitle: Your brilliant brain and how to train it; Includes index; A world of maths -- Maths brain : Meet your brain -- Maths skills -- Learning maths -- Brain vs. machine -- Problems with numbers -- Women and maths -- Seeing the solution -- Inventing numbers : learning to count -- Number systems -- Big zero -- Pythagoras -- Thinking outside the box -- Number patterns -- Calculation tips -- Archimedes -- Maths and measures -- How big? How far? -- The size of the problem -- Magic numbers : Seeing sequences -- Pascal's triangle -- Magic squares -- Missing numbers -- Karl Gauss -- Infinity -- Numbers with meaning -- Number tricks -- Puzzling primes -- Shapes and space : Triangles -- Shaping up -- Shape shifting -- Round and round -- The third dimension -- 3-D shape puzzles -- 3-D fun -- Leonhard Euler -- Amazing mazes -- Optical illusions -- Impossible shapes -- A world of maths : Interesting times -- Mapping -- Isaac Newton -- Probability -- Displaying data -- Logic puzzles and paradoxes -- Breaking codes -- Codes and ciphers -- Alan Turing -- Algebra -- Brainteasers -- Secrets of the universe -- The big quiz N2 - Make your brain a maths brain! Packed with things to do, Train Your Brain to be a Maths Genius, will help you calculate equations that will make your knees tremble, it will make fretting about fractions a thing of the past, and best of all - it's great fun! Suggested level: primary, intermediate ER -