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The Little Book Of Zombie Mathematics: 25 Zombie-based Maths Problems
The Little Book of Zombie Mathematics uses zombie-based scenarios to make maths more fun. It provides twenty-five thought-provoking post-apocalyptic scenarios which can be solved using everyday mathematics. It is aimed at both adults and older children, whether they are interested in maths, zombies or both. For each problem, multiple choice answers are provided for those who do not want to bother with the maths, and an explanation of how to work out the right answer is provided for those who are interested. Each problem has a MWZ (Maths with Zombies) score which can be added up by the reader to work out how well their maths skills will help them survive in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
About The Author: Colin M. Drysdale is a scientist, author, and zombie fan. Writing The Little Book of Zombie Mathematics allowed him to bring these disparate interests together in a single volume. He lives in Glasgow in Scotland where he runs a small business teaching biologists how to make maps.
From The Back Of The Book: Your machine gun can fire 57 bullets a minute. There are 200 zombies staggering towards you and they'll reach you in three and a half minutes. Do you have the fire power to kill them all before they get to you?
Mathematics can be oh so dry and boring. All those numbers floating around; and then there are the letters: what on earth are they doing in there? Shouldn't they be in the English classroom helping people read? But wait, did you know you can do maths with zombies? That sounds more exciting, doesn't it? When maths becomes the key for surviving in a world where the dead hunt the living, it's so much more fun. This is the premise behind The Little Book of Zombie Mathematics: make maths fun by adding the undead. After all, everything's better with zombies.
And you never know, if a zombie apocalypse were ever to happen, knowing how to do maths with zombies might just save your life!
Oh and if you're wondering what the answer is to the problem above, it's no you don't. You can find out why inside ...
About The Author: Colin M. Drysdale is a scientist, author, and zombie fan. Writing The Little Book of Zombie Mathematics allowed him to bring these disparate interests together in a single volume. He lives in Glasgow in Scotland where he runs a small business teaching biologists how to make maps.
From The Back Of The Book: Your machine gun can fire 57 bullets a minute. There are 200 zombies staggering towards you and they'll reach you in three and a half minutes. Do you have the fire power to kill them all before they get to you?
Mathematics can be oh so dry and boring. All those numbers floating around; and then there are the letters: what on earth are they doing in there? Shouldn't they be in the English classroom helping people read? But wait, did you know you can do maths with zombies? That sounds more exciting, doesn't it? When maths becomes the key for surviving in a world where the dead hunt the living, it's so much more fun. This is the premise behind The Little Book of Zombie Mathematics: make maths fun by adding the undead. After all, everything's better with zombies.
And you never know, if a zombie apocalypse were ever to happen, knowing how to do maths with zombies might just save your life!
Oh and if you're wondering what the answer is to the problem above, it's no you don't. You can find out why inside ...
100 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2015
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About the author
Colin M. Drysdale
21 books31 followersColin M. Drysdale was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied Zoology as an undergraduate at Glasgow University and has a doctorate in whale biology from the University of Aberdeen (also in Scotland). As part of his work, he has travelled extensively, and has spent time sailing around the west coast of Scotland, Newfoundland, Labrador, the Bahamas and Florida. He has also spent time in St. Helena, Vancouver island and has travelled overland across Canada and from Hong Kong to Glasgow by train.
While he was written countless academic papers and six technical books under is real name, he chose to publish his debut novel, For Those In Peril On The Sea under a pen name to help keep some separation between his non-fiction and his fiction writing.
Much of the landscapes and locations referred to in For Those In Peril On The Sea are real places that the author has visited or spent time in, especially when working in the northern Bahamas, gathering data for his doctoral thesis.
July 2014 will see the publication of his second novel, The Outbreak, which is set in the same world as For Those In Peril On The Sea, but which follows a new cast of characters as they try to escape from a city as it is over-run by the newly mutated Haitian Rabies Virus. As with the first book in this series, there is a strong element of the sea and sailing culture, although this time of the author's native Scotland rather than the sub-tropical setting of For Those In Peril On The Sea.
A third book will be added the For Those In Peril series in summer 2015, which will see the characters in the first two books united as their story lines finally collide.
As well as well as writing novel, Colin M. Drysdale has also published an anthology of short zombie and post-apocalyptic stories, which is currently available in paperback and as a Kindle ebook called Zombies Can't Swim And Other Tales Of The Undead. This contains 23 short stories, ranging in length from flash fiction to full length short stories which have previously available through his blog.
While he was written countless academic papers and six technical books under is real name, he chose to publish his debut novel, For Those In Peril On The Sea under a pen name to help keep some separation between his non-fiction and his fiction writing.
Much of the landscapes and locations referred to in For Those In Peril On The Sea are real places that the author has visited or spent time in, especially when working in the northern Bahamas, gathering data for his doctoral thesis.
July 2014 will see the publication of his second novel, The Outbreak, which is set in the same world as For Those In Peril On The Sea, but which follows a new cast of characters as they try to escape from a city as it is over-run by the newly mutated Haitian Rabies Virus. As with the first book in this series, there is a strong element of the sea and sailing culture, although this time of the author's native Scotland rather than the sub-tropical setting of For Those In Peril On The Sea.
A third book will be added the For Those In Peril series in summer 2015, which will see the characters in the first two books united as their story lines finally collide.
As well as well as writing novel, Colin M. Drysdale has also published an anthology of short zombie and post-apocalyptic stories, which is currently available in paperback and as a Kindle ebook called Zombies Can't Swim And Other Tales Of The Undead. This contains 23 short stories, ranging in length from flash fiction to full length short stories which have previously available through his blog.
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May 9, 2016
** I received a copy of this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway. **
Absolutely adorable!! (In a brain-eating, bloody, twisted sort of way!) Whether you actually find math fun or not (I do, for the most part), this book is perfect to make math even more enjoyable! There's no better way to hone your math skills than to work out how many times you need to reload to take down a horde of zombies or trying to determine how long you have to chop off a body part before you are infected from a zombie bite. If this was how math was taught in school, I think the kids would be paying a LOT more attention!
Absolutely adorable!! (In a brain-eating, bloody, twisted sort of way!) Whether you actually find math fun or not (I do, for the most part), this book is perfect to make math even more enjoyable! There's no better way to hone your math skills than to work out how many times you need to reload to take down a horde of zombies or trying to determine how long you have to chop off a body part before you are infected from a zombie bite. If this was how math was taught in school, I think the kids would be paying a LOT more attention!
May 21, 2016
A clever way to make math fun. I also like how it tells you how to find the answers instead of the answer itself.
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