Theme: Mathmatics

Anno’s Hat Tricks

By Book Importer | Published: February 17, 2011

Three children, Tom, Hannah, and Shadowchild, who represents the reader, are made to guess, using the concept of binary logic, the color of the hats on their heads.

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Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar

By Book Importer | Published: January 19, 2011

Simple text and pictures combine to present a fascinating and fun lesson demonstrating the mathematical concept of factorials.

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Anno’s Math Games

By Book Importer | Published: January 19, 2011

Through lively pictures and intriguing puzzles and games, Anno takes young children on a fun-filled journey through basic mathematical concepts, showing how skills are used every day.

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Anno’s Math Games II

By Book Importer | Published: January 19, 2011

Pictures, puzzles, games, and simple activities introduce the mathematical concepts of multiplication, sequence and ordinal numbering, measurement, and direction.

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Anno’s Math Games III

By Book Importer | Published: January 19, 2011

Picture puzzles, games, and simple activities introduce the mathematical concepts of abstract thinking, circuitry, geometry, and topology.

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Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Matt and Bibi unravel a pattern to discover a lost city. The Zills are visiting Peru to study the mysterious lost city of Quwi when Matt and Bibi stumble into an adventure. With only each other, their faithful dog Riley, and an unusual ancient relic to guide them, the twins must use their understanding of [...]

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Artemis Fowls : The Lost Colony

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 27, 2007

Thousands of years ago, fairies and humans fought a great battle for the magical
island of Ireland.When it became clear that they could not win, all of the fairies moved belowground except for the 8th family.  Rather than surrender, they used a magical time spell to take their colony out of time and into Limbo. There [...]

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