Burlington Public Library

"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...

Provides simple examples of repeating sequences of shapes, colors, objects, and more, helping readers learn how to find patterns in the world around them.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats introduce the basic math concept of addition.

A collection of math activities that include brainteasers, magic tricks, and mind-reading games.--

Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems in using visual clues.

A sultan's daughter who loves numbers and riddles devises a plan to find the man who is best suited to be her husband.

Uses rhyming text filled with funny examples show what it means to subtract, also introduces terminology used in subtraction.

Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and govenrments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded...

Introduces the rules and play of basketball while focusing on mathematical concepts related to the game, with supplementary side bars that challenge readers to figure out related geometry and arithmetic problems.

With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible.