Murderous Maths

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Savage Shapes (previously Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes), ISBN 0-439-99747-X (signs in geometric diagrams, Loci, constructions: perpendicular bisectors; dropping perpendiculars; bisecting angles, triangles: similar; congruent; equal areas, polygons: regular; irregular; angle sizes and construction, tessellations and Penrose Tiles, origami, circles: chord; tangent; angle theorems, regular solids, Euler's formula, ellipses, Geometric proof of Pythagoras' Theorem.) Your pencil line should be on the outside of the fold when you've finished and you should end up with a shape like this:

Since Murderous Maths was first launched by Scholastic UK in 1997, we've been delighted to get messages from all over the world. Recently we've heard from a lot of Chinese readers and we have really enjoyed seeing all these covers with simplified Chinese text!The resource sheets can be printed off and copied for your own or classroom use, but MAY NOT be used for wider publication in any form without permission or credit. Thank you. Topology: MMoE 38-42, bridge crossing and drawing problems MM2 136-145 fluid handcuffs EQEA 142-143 TRIANGLES: ASAS 35-48, SAVSH 39-65, formulasPSAUS 126-134 constructing FANG 38-45, sin area formula FANG 128-130 The Perfect Sausages (previously The Perfect Sausage and other Fundamental Formulas), ISBN 0-439-95901-2 (areas and volumes, ellipsoids and toruses, number formulas (e.g. triangle, hexagonal), speed, acceleration, stopping time, distance, force, gravity, projectiles, Money: percentages; simple and compound interest, permutations and combinations.)

g Gravity: PSAUS 55, 63. For a lot more information on gravity and forces, see "Isaac Newton and His Apple" by Kjartan Poskitt 69-85, 154-157 Presented in a question and answer format, lots of key maths topics are demonstrated in use including: Flexagons: MOM 100-113, How to make a Triflexagon video version, How to make Flexagons step by step versionThe Fiendish Angletron (previously The Fiendish Angletron: Trigonometry), ISBN 0-439-96859-3 (scales and ratios in maps and diagrams, protractor and compass, SIN, COS and TAN ratios in right angled triangles, trig on a calculator; normal and inverse, sine and cosine formulas for non-right-angled triangles, triangulation, parallax angles and parsecs, sin/cos/tan relationships, sin wave, bearings.) AUTHORS LIVE: clips from a Murderous Maths event filmed at BBC Scotland and streamed to schools across the UK.