A Story of Natural Numbers

This new book is a brilliant starting point for any number of investigations and discoveries about numbers… good maths teachers will just want to carry it round from classroom to classroom with them, using it as the basis for any number of challenging lessons.

I have recurring nightmares about long division, which is why I opened this book with some trepidation. What a surprise. The way David Demant talks about numbers you learn something without even trying. He begins by looking at natural numbers, the ones we use to count and label things: everything from how many people are at the footy to the numbers on a raffle ticket… You’ll find hundreds of interesting facts such as animals recognize two, three, four and even five items, but have difficulty recognizing more. And the difference between mathematics, arithmetic and geometry.