The Fiendish Angletron

Murderous Maths #10

by Kjartan Poskitt

Is maths making you miserable? Are you traumatised by triangles and anxious about angles? Fear 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 breadsicks, a mustard jar, and a coffee cup...

Genres: Nonfiction, Mathematics, Science, Childrens

Paperback

First published July 16, 2004

About the author

Kjartan Poskitt is an author and TV presenter who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children's series of books. Poskitt was educated at Collingwood College, Durham. In addition to his popular science and maths books, which include books on Isaac Newton (Dead Famous: Isaac Newton and his Apple), puzzles, practical jokes and secred codes, Poskitt has written a book of magical tricks, a GCSE Maths support book and four Rosie and Jim annuals. In 2007, Poskit published the first in a new series of children's novels called Urgum the Axeman.

He also wrote the theme tune for the children's art program SMart, as well as the title theme and music for the first two series of Brum. He is also the creator of a logic puzzle, Kjarposko.

He has been a presenter for a number of (mostly BBC) educational children's TV shows.

Reviews

[Tak Yip LOW · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a semi-fiction, semi-non-fiction type book and is in the series murderous maths. This is one of the slightly more complicated books as it covers the hard topic of trig. To a person with no understanding of subsituting of unknowns this book would render useless as trig relies of algebra to work. However I think that it deserves its 5 star rating as it is both funny and informative. It is basically about the battle between a super-accurate measuring machine and trig. If you are looking to improve in maths I think that this series is the way to do so. Note there are no hard sums nor things that you have to work out.

[Belle Meade School]

516.24

[Boyan K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Тази книга ме събуди от догматична дрямка

[Asen Nakov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Поредицата, която събуди любовта ми към математиката!

[Karhum Ghassan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was interesting, but as is with most books about mathematics,i think they are boring,but to tell the truth i think this kind was a very fun kind of mathematics. This book is a half fiction, half non-fiction type book and is in the series murderous math. However I think that it deserves its 4 star rating as it is both funny and informative. It is basically about the battle between a super-accurate measuring machine and trig.Note there are no hard sums nor things that you have to work out.

[Ainiah · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was interesting, but as is with most books about mathematics, eventually boring.
When I was young, it made no sense.
Now, it's pretty useless.