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To: murphE
Kids with math skills need cultivation....future will belong to them...

Was just looking at these:

The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them (Hardcover)
by David Ruelle (Author)


43 posted on 12/15/2007 11:32:30 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Malokitty
See above link at post # 43 for text for the books. Math , just about any math and the required logical thinking will put you ahead of the competition....it is super important.

I worked with a student with a student using the book....The Story of Numbers....How Mathematics has shaped Civilization...seemed to be a book that was at about the right level ...by John McLeish...

She really enjoyed it,....we did puzzle how the babylons taught their children to do fractions in a base 60 number system....

Link to Amazon:

The Story of Numbers: How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization (Paperback)

44 posted on 12/15/2007 11:46:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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