This is Not a Maths Book: A Smart Art Activity Book

Paperback Published on: 06/04/2015
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Synopsis

Amazing art projects that will keep kids busy for hours!

With the fun and creative drawing activities in This is Not a Maths Book, you’ll be able to make your very own designs to amaze your family and friends. The projects are explained with diagrams and step-by-step instructions, making them simple and fun to complete. As you sketch, you’ll discover the amazing maths principles in each challenge that makes it work. Each page has lots of space to draw, and there’s a section of graph paper at the back of the book so that you can keep on creating!

You’ll discover how to make:

  • Your own optical illusions
  • Perfect circles
  • Parabolic curves
  • Mandalas
  • Tiled patterns
  • Fractals
  • Snowflakes
  • Stomachion puzzles
  • Tessellations
  • Loop-de-loops
  • Golden spirals
  • Square-tangles
  • Sketches on a slant
  • 3-D webs
  • Impossible triangles

    Get ready to find out how art can be maths, and maths can be art! But remember – this is absolutely NOT a maths book.

    Or is it…?

Winner of a British Book Design and Production Award 2015, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Category

Winner of the ALCS Educational Writers Award, 2016

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781782402053
  • Number of pages: 96
  • Dimensions: 280 x 215 mm
  • Interest age: From 10 years
  • Weight: 360g
  • Languages: English

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This is Not a Maths Book
This is not a maths book
Bought this for my 11 year old nephew - and he loved it! Just the right mix of challenge and fun, and interesting for adults looking over his shoulder too... READ MORE
isobel o'neill