Train Your Brain: Think Like a Mathematician

Get ahead in popular S.T.E.A.M. careers by learning to think like the experts and developing a growth mindset

List of contents

• 1: What do mathematicians do?
• 1: Be logical
• 1: Find the proof
• 1: Archimedes: Mathematician and inventor
• 1: Solve problems
• 1: Think visually
• 1: Investigate numbers
• 1: Emmy Noether: Overcoming prejudice
• 1: Try working backwards
• 1: Mistakes are okay!
• 1: Look for patterns
• 1: Terry Tao: The great collaborator
• 1: Play games
• 1: Work systematically
• 1: Find the general rule
• 1: Be resilient
• 1: Sofya Kovalevskaya: Trailblazer
• 1: Put in the practice
• 1: Think about chance
• 1: Work together
• 1: Maths is everywhere
• 1: Glossary
• 1: Further information
• 1: Index

About the author

Alex Woolf has written more than 150 books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for children. Many of these have sold around the world and his words have been translated into over a dozen different languages. He has written on a huge range of subjects including Romans, chocolate, asteroids, sharks, Tudors, flying reptiles, soap, bees and acne. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award for his story, Mystery at Moon Base One. Alex lives in North London with his family and two cats, Juno and Minerva.David Broadbent has been an illustrator for many a long year, he has created illustrations for different companies and people all over this planet of ours and would like to keep doing so. Books are his favourite thing to work on and he has created artwork for titles such as Do Nice be Kind Spread Happy, Be the Change, Make it Happen and The Camper Van Bible. He lives on the south coast of England with his family, including a strange dog and a three legged hamster.

Summary

Get ahead in popular S.T.E.A.M. careers by learning to think like the experts and developing a growth mindset

Foreword

Get ahead in popular S.T.E.A.M. careers by learning to think like the experts and developing a growth mindset

Product details

• Authors: Alex Woolf, David Broadbent, Alex Woolf, Woolf Alex
• Assisted by: David Broadbent (Illustration), Broadbent David (Illustration)
• Publisher: Wayland
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2022
• EAN: 9781526316578
• ISBN: 978-1-5263-1657-8
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 264 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Train Your Brain
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Careers, Work & industry / world of work (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Work and society, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy