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Review My thoughts after reading Kyle Evans's The Amazing World of Social Media Math. This is a book by Kyle Evans, a math teacher and communicator who gives many talks to improve mathematical understanding among both children and adults. People who don't work in STEM fields don't get many chances to use math in daily life after graduating. Quite a few people give up on learning math while still in school, asking why they need to study it at all; they're often called "math dropouts." Yet even
TheAmazingWorldOfSocialMediaMath BijeunBooks Social-media math puzzles expand your mathematical thinking. I showed my fourth-grade daughter a picture of pizzas posted on Bijeun's Instagram feed and asked which one she'd choose. She immediately picked the 18-inch pizza. I secretly got excited, thinking, "She hasn't even learned the area of a circle yet—is my child a genius?!" Her bright answer was, "Because it's bigger. Eating two would be greedy." That led us naturally into talking about pizza
TheAmazingWorldOfSocialMediaMath I've noticed clever math problems that feel like quizzes on social media for a while now. I'd copy them and send them to friends or group chats, and we'd solve them together. Whether we got them right or wrong, the time we spent doing it together was fun. I sometimes wondered why we never had problems like these when I was studying math in school. Then I saw similar questions in my child's critical-thinking workbook and was pretty shocked. Kids solve these? I
Kyle Evans: Amazing SNS Math
Social-media math puzzles can build interest in math and strengthen understanding of its concepts Math tricks and magic are only a step apart! Do you hate math? Do you still find yourself smiling at puzzle problems on Facebook or YouTube? If you dislike math but love puzzles that make you want to jump into the comments, you've already taken a step into the world of math. This book looks at why math puzzles attract so much attention on social media, then explains what mathematical concepts readers can learn from them.
Korean title: 기막힌 SNS 수학
Korean author: 카일 에반스
Korean publisher: 빚은책들
ISBN-13: 9791171210671
Reviews
Review My thoughts after reading Kyle Evans's The Amazing World of Social Media Math. This is a book by Kyle Evans, a math teacher and communicator who gives many talks to improve mathematical understanding among both children and adults. People who don't work in STEM fields don't get many chances to use math in daily life after graduating. Quite a few people give up on learning math while still in school, asking why they need to study it at all; they're often called "math dropouts." Yet even
TheAmazingWorldOfSocialMediaMath BijeunBooks Social-media math puzzles expand your mathematical thinking. I showed my fourth-grade daughter a picture of pizzas posted on Bijeun's Instagram feed and asked which one she'd choose. She immediately picked the 18-inch pizza. I secretly got excited, thinking, "She hasn't even learned the area of a circle yet—is my child a genius?!" Her bright answer was, "Because it's bigger. Eating two would be greedy." That led us naturally into talking about pizza
TheAmazingWorldOfSocialMediaMath I've noticed clever math problems that feel like quizzes on social media for a while now. I'd copy them and send them to friends or group chats, and we'd solve them together. Whether we got them right or wrong, the time we spent doing it together was fun. I sometimes wondered why we never had problems like these when I was studying math in school. Then I saw similar questions in my child's critical-thinking workbook and was pretty shocked. Kids solve these? I
