Math Wizardry for Kids, 2nd Edition This new edition of Math
Wizardry for Kids is designed to demonstrate to young readers
that numbers are fascinating to ponder, fun to calculate, and
the key to scientific understanding. Children explore concepts
such as Fibonacci numbers, which dramatically express symmetries
in shapes and number patterns in plant life and other aspects of
nature. Among the new, recommended activities for young readers
are experiments with time such as measuring the earth’s
rotation, making a sundial to measure daylight hours, and
suggestions for experimenting with a time-telling pendulum.
Additional projects include constructing ciphers and cracking
codes, managing money, devising a stock market game, and
thinking like a computer. The authors’ suggested tools for
becoming a math wizard include plenty of paper, pencils, a
ruler, a drawing compass, a directional compass, a protractor, a
triangle, a simple calculator, a notebook, and miscellaneous art
supplies.