Pirate Math

by Michael Serra

Ahoy matey! Fear not mathematics. Build ye thinking skills, learn ye coordinates, and a smarter pirate ye will be! Michael Serra combines the challenge of mathematics with the fun adventure of pirates and buried treasure. Play the Buried Treasure game using a rectangle coordinate plane, a polar coordinate system, a spherical surface, and with three-dimensional areas. Use the chapter on cryptography to help solve hidden messages to uncover the pirate loot. Take a journey to sun-drenched tropical islands in search of pirate booty. With a map in your hand, follow clues and solve puzzles, developing your mathematical reasoning skills along the way. Argh, what glorious adventures, the thrill of using math to find pirate treasure!

288 pages, Paperback

Published February 25, 2014