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Awesome Arithmetricks (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
This work offers an introduction to maths with the laughs added in! Why nothing sometimes means something? Can you beat Professor Fiendish's foul formula? What can stop a hairy green spot epidemic? Find out in the "Essential Arithmetricks" - all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.

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Perfect Sausage & Other Fundamental Formulas (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Is maths making you miserable?
Are you forever getting your sums in a muddle and floundering with your formulas?
Get back on track with The Perfect Sausage. Find out how Pongo McWhiffy makes a perfect fried egg, how to get your fair share of the gangsters' leftover pizza and what makes money really interesting. Meet the Gollarks' evil allies as they prepare for another invasion and join the Pure Mathematicians in a high-speed car chase. Can the Mathsmobile take the pace? Meanwhile, back at the Last Chance Saloon, Brett Shuffler brings the house down and Riverboat Lil meets her match.

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The Mean and Vulgar Bits (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Is maths making you miserable? Are you frazzled by fractions and alarmed by averages? Don't panic. Help is at hand in "The Mean and Vulgar Bits". Find out how fractions can save you from the toxic mutant fish of fastbuck and travel to Planet Mean to discover how averages can be revolting.

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Codes And How To Break Them (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt & Ian Baker
Will show readers how to encode/decode their own messages in as many ways as possible. Examples of differently coded messages will also fit in well with the diverse range of the usual Murderous Maths characters. The contents include: Disguised codes (e.g. see the last para of synopsis); Scrambled codes (where the order of letters is mixed up); Substitution codes (where letters are replaced by other letters or symbols or just 14 21 13 2 5 18 19 ); Some history of how codes have been used in the past, from ancient Roman times to cracking the WW2 German Enigma machine; and, other message systems such as morse code, flags and also activity ideas such as making cut-out stencils that work with code grids. Although the other Murderous Maths books deliberately avoid exercises or setting questions, this title lends itself to setting messages that need decoding by the reader, possibly leading up to a mega message to decode at the end. Can you ... more

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Desperate Measures (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
This work offers an introduction to maths with the laughs added in! Why does a horse need hands? How many metres are there on the head of a pin? How dense are you? Find out in "Desperate Measures" - all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.

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Do You Feel Lucky? (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: POSKITT Kjartan
Age 10+

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Fiendish Angletron (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Is maths making you miserable? Are you traumatised by triangles and anxious about angles? Fear not: this book will help you solve the most testing of trigonomogeometric tasks. But beware - Professor Fiendish is planning his most evil scheme yet! To defeat him you'll need to push your calculator to its limit and use those mysterious buttons you've always been afraid to touch. Also here to help are the strangely familiar superheroes Supersin, Cosgirl and Tandog. Meanwhile Blade and the gang attempt to solve the mystery of Bluetooth's Buried Bullion using breadsticks, a mustard jar, and a coffee cup...

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Guaranteed To Bend Your Brain (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
This work features maths with the laughs added in! How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? Which famous mathematician was murdered? How did time begin? Find out in "Murderous Maths" - all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.

Previously published as 'Murderous Maths'.

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Guaranteed To Mash Your Mind (Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
This work features maths with the laughs added in! How can maths save your life? Can you make a piece of one-sided paper? How can you be famous for ever? Find out in "More Murderous Maths" - all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach at school.

Previous Published as 'More Murderous Maths'.

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Phantom X ( Murderous Maths) order quantity
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Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Is maths making you miserable? Are you alarmed by algebra and flummoxed by formulas? Do equations make you quake? Look no further: The Phantom is here to banish algebraic agony for good. Find out what Grizelda the Grisly buys on a shopping trip to the Slaughter-o-Mart, face another diabolical challenge from Professor Fiendish, and enter the Murderous Maths testing laboratory in the disturbing disguise of a Pure Mathematician. Meanwhile, the gangsters discover that, sometimes, x = a big, fat nothing.

 
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