Garfield's almost-as-great-as-doughnuts guide to math

Book 2019

Explore breakthroughs in the history of math with comical commentary from Garfield the cat--who would really rather just be eating doughnuts.

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Garfield (Fictitious character) Juvenile literature

Mathematics History Juvenile literature

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ISBN:

9781541574267
1541574265

Description:

32 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm

Target Audience Note:

007-011
Grades 4 to 6

Notes:

"Garfield created by Jim Davis."

Contents:

The beginning of numbers
Ancient Egyptians
Babylonians
Ancient Greeks
Eratosthenes
Zero
The abacus
Fibonacci
Math symbols
Binary numbers
The first computer
Modern computers
Breakthrough of the future?
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Control Number:

2773933

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Paws, Inc

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