E-book Category: Children, Education
E-book Title: Wiz Kid Calculus: A Play about Math
Author: Joe Pagano
Book Description: Suitable for ages 16 and up So when was the last time you read a play on math and really learned something?-about calculus no less! Once again, this prolific author takes you by the hand and leads you on a fascinating journey to Planet Calculus in the Wiz Kid Galaxy, where you learn the rudiments of the Calculus: the limit and the derivative. As you read through this play, you will be both amused and enlightened by the jovial Wiz Kid character, all the while learning a thing or two about more advanced mathematics.
Breaking ground with a new concept-much like was done with his novel collection of poetry, Poems for the Mathematically Insecure-the author puts into play format a teaching work which gets its educational objective met while entertaining its audience as well. Not too shabby an accomplishment given the tool to work with: a subject like calculus which is difficult to teach and equally difficult to learn. If you want to see a new approach toward teaching math, here it is in this splendid math ebook of five acts. After this journey, you will definitely return a more informed person-or should I say student. And the best part is that you really don't have to be a math student to enjoy this play. Now hurry up and jump on board as the spaceship is about to leave.
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