A Day's Adventure In Math Wonderland |  | Authors: Jin Akiyama, Mari-Jo Ruiz
Creator: Frances Alcaraz
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Sales Rank: 1928527
Media: Paperback
Pages: 233
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 9812814760
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9789812814760
ASIN: 9812814760
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Product Description
Math Wonderland is a museum of interactive mathematical models in Hokkaido, Japan, founded by one of the authors, Jin Akiyama, in 2003. The models in Wonderland, many of which have been exhibited all over Japan and in cities around the world, are meant to help children and young adults discover and experience the wonders of mathematics. This book is centered around the experiences of three fictional middle-school students during a visit to Wonderland. They spend a day in Wonderland, handling the interactive models and participating in the activities offered there. At the end of the day, they leave with a genuine appreciation of mathematics gained from witnessing its beauty, applicability and inevitability.This book is an important contribution to the genre because it presents mathematics and models that have never before appeared in books in the same category: reversible solids, plane tiling with developments of tetrahedrons, and double-packable solids, which are derived from the authors' own research papers published in mathematics journals. It is designed to entertain, inform and even teach some mathematics. Although it is targeted at young adults, parents and teachers may learn something from the book as well.
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