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Simple text and photographs introduce the concept of geometry using shapes.

Dissatisfied with its shape, a triangle keeps asking the local shapeshifter to add more lines and angles until it doesn't know which side is up.

Explains the principles of plane geometry and includes practice exercises and model problems.

With a big friendly bear as a guide, you can find shapes hidden on count squares, circles, triangles, zig-zags and stars.

"Photographs of familiar objects such as chair, barrettes, and manhole cover present a study of rounded and angular shapes."--Title page verso.

While riding through the forests of Angleland, cousins Per and Radius realize they are lost and are desperate for a map to guide them home. Soon they come across a mysterious house in the hills. Inside they find a map to a treasure belonging to Xaxon Yellowbearyd, the fiercest Viking warrior of his time. Per and Radius must decode the strange numbered grid on the map, while trying to steer clear of the pack of bungling bandits who are on their

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Students studying geometry in school will certainly learn about lines and angles, circles and triangles, and theyll find everything they need to master those topics. But Geometry is so much more than shapes! Proofs are at the heart of any Geometry course, and theyre most often where students struggle. Geometry For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is overflowing with helpful and practical, plain-English information about proofs to help students succeed. --Publisher's...

In ancient Greece, young Pythagoras discovers a special number pattern (the Pythagorean theorem) and uses it to solve problems involving right triangles.

Presents objects with the shape of a heart, a triangle, a square and other shapes through paintings by such artists as Magritte, Escher, and Matisse.