I'm Gwen. I have a new book out on kindle about band symmetry. While it was funded by the NSF, it is a fun read for middle graders down to fourth grade. Here is the blurb. I hope it isn't offensive to suggest this as something to read.
I would, of course, love any feedback that you may have. The paperback version will be out soon. Thank you.
-- In the last throes of the 14th century, Islamic Spain is under pressure from Castile and Aragon. Ara, the twelve-year old daughter to the Sultan, finds herself in the center of a political intrigue when her eunuch tutor is magically transformed by the evil Wazir. Can a little girl save her friend and tutor with the help of a Sufi mathemagician.
Intertwined in a mystery of math, art and magic, Ara races to find the seven broken symmetries before time runs out? Will she succeed or will the Alhambra fall and with it all that she loves?
And will the stone lions awaken in time to help her?
This cross-cultural fantasy combines mystery and math to teach the geometry of symmetry.
I would, of course, love any feedback that you may have. The paperback version will be out soon. Thank you.
The Stone LIons
http://www.amazon.com/The-Stone-Lions...
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In the last throes of the 14th century, Islamic Spain is under pressure from Castile and Aragon. Ara, the twelve-year old daughter to the Sultan, finds herself in the center of a political intrigue when her eunuch tutor is magically transformed by the evil Wazir. Can a little girl save her friend and tutor with the help of a Sufi mathemagician.
Intertwined in a mystery of math, art and magic, Ara races to find the seven broken symmetries before time runs out? Will she succeed or will the Alhambra fall and with it all that she loves?
And will the stone lions awaken in time to help her?
This cross-cultural fantasy combines mystery and math to teach the geometry of symmetry.