Foreword by Liz Heinecke, The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Introduction Geometry: Hypatia: Square Wheels Maryam Mirzakhani: Straight Edge, Curved Slot J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.: Building Buildings Fan Chung: Corners and Edges and Faces! Oh My!Games: John Conway: Dots & Boxes Federico Ardila: Pigeons Love Holes Srinivasa Ramanujan: Mancala Muammad ibn Ms al-Khwrizm: Awesome Algebra Art: Grace Hopper: Binary Bracelet Mary Everest Boole: Stitching Everest Ron Graham: Fibonacci Spiral Jennifer McLoud-Mann: Shape-ShiftingStatistics: Gertrude Mary Cox: Bars, Short and Tall Mary Cartwright: Organized Chaos Florence Nightingale: Pizza Pie Charts David Blackwell: Always Bet on Math Nalini Joshi: The Three Boxes ProblemRecreational Math: Persi Diaconis: Mathematical Magic George Boole: The Princess's Puzzles Emmy Noether: Fabulous Folding Flexagons Martin Gardner: A Heap of HexagonsFinal Project: Shing-Tung Yau: Alien City Hints and Solutions Templates Glossary Acknowledgements About the Authors About the Illustrator Index
Rebecca Rapoport holds degrees in mathematics from Harvard
University and Michigan State. From her first job out of college,
as one of the pioneers of Harvard's Internet education offerings,
she has been passionate about encouraging her love for math in
others. As an early contributor to both retail giant Amazon.com and
Akamai Technologies, the number one firm in cloud computing,
Rapoport played a key role in several elements of the Internet
revolution. She then returned to her first love, education, as an
innovator of new methods to introduce children and adults to the
critically important world of STEAM education as COO of an
enrichment center dedicated to helping kids explore the creative
side of science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and is
currently developing and teaching innovative math curricula in the
Boston area. Rapoport is also the co-author of Math Games Lab for
Kids (published by Quarry Books), a book of fun, hands-on math
activities designed to introduce elementary and middle-school
students to several areas of higher math; and the calendars
Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2021, Mathematics: Your
Daily Epsilon of Math 2020, Mathematics 2019: Your Daily Epsilon of
Math, and The Mathematics Calendar 2018, all published by Rock
Point. She has an Erds number of 2.
Liz Lee Heinecke has loved science since she was old enough to
inspect her first butterfly. After working in molecular biology
research for 10 years and earning her master's degree, she left the
lab to kick off a new chapter in her life as a stay-at-home mom.
Soon, she found herself sharing her love of science with her three
kids as they grew, chronicling their science adventures on her
KitchenPantryScientist website. Her desire to share her enthusiasm
for science led to regular television appearances, an opportunity
to serve as an Earth Ambassador for NASA, and the creation of an
iPhone app. Her goal is to make it simple for parents to do science
with kids of all ages, and for kids to experiment safely on their
own. Liz graduated from Luther College and received her master's
degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
She is the author of Kitchen Science Lab for Kids, Kitchen Science
Lab for Kids: Edible Edition, Outdoor Science Lab for Kids, STEAM
Lab for Kids, Sheet Pan Science, and Little Learning Labs: Kitchen
Science for Kids. Her namesake series, The Kitchen Pantry
Scientist, pairs illustrated biographies with engaging hands-on
activities inspired by their work. The books in that series
include: Chemistry for Kids, Biology for Kids, and Physics for
Kids.
Allanna Chung is an aspiring screenwriter with a deep passion for
math. One of her favorite pastimes is to show just how fun and
beautiful math can be to those who have learned to dislike it. She
works as a teacher of STEM and as a personal tutor to help students
learn math in ways that work for them.
As a math teacher, I know that sometimes we just can't learn a
concept unless we see it in action. Rapoport and Chung's book
brings math into life with easy-to-build demonstrations. I can't
wait to implement these in my classroom!--Sarah Thomas, Secondary
Mathematics Teacher, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College
(Denver, CO)
I am thrilled that Math for Kids has joined Chemistry for Kids,
Biology for Kids and Physics for Kids as part of "The Kitchen
Pantry Scientist" series. Modern science depends on observation and
measurement. Without numbers, science as we know it today would not
exist.--Liz Lee Heinecke, The Kitchen Pantry Scientist
These stories make the math real in such important ways, and
accessible sources like this one are rare. That this book combines
herstories and histories with fun, interesting mathematical tasks
is icing on the pi.--Jan McDonald, Former Dean and Professor,
School of Education (Pace and Phillips universities)
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