Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures in Mathematical Wonderland

by Eugenia Cheng, Aleksandra Artymoska (Illustrator)

Overview

Find the clues and lift the flaps on this mathematical mystery!

Join Molly as she ventures into a curious world where nothing is quite as it seems. A trail of clues leads from scene to scene, presenting Molly with a number of challenges. But who is leaving the clues, and where will they lead? This interactive mystery shows math isn't just about numbers—it’s about imagination! An explorative and creative approach to the world of mathematics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536217100
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/30/2021
Pages:	30
Sales rank:	296,436
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician, pianist, and lecturer. She is passionate about ridding the world of math-phobia. Eugenia’s first book, How to Bake Pi, has been an international success. Molly’s Mathematical Adventure is her first children's book.

Aleksandra Artymowska is an illustrator, graphic designer, and painter from Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2005 and received the Provost Award. She now splits her time between Poland and Israel.

Editorial Reviews

Prompted by a note hidden beneath a flap, Molly finds herself first in a world (with, significantly, a white rabbit) where select insides and outsides are inverted. Subsequent flaps see her finding and passing through further concealed doorways into an M.C. Escher–style “impossible staircase,” a maze with tessellated shapes, a set of infinitely receding hallways, and six more “implausible but not impossible” settings that likewise demonstrate some of math’s central tools and ideas—often in an interactive way that requires folding, recognizing patterns, or interlacing pre-cut elements. Artymowska fills her big, square illustrations with both clearly drawn examples of each main concept and smaller details to search out, such as sets of nesting dolls to match up.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the Publisher

★ 2021-05-05
A child steps through a die-cut bedroom window into a wonderland of math- and number-related concepts.

Prompted by a note hidden beneath a flap, Molly finds herself first in a world (with, significantly, a white rabbit) where select insides and outsides are inverted. Subsequent flaps see her finding and passing through further concealed doorways into an M.C. Escher–style “impossible staircase,” a maze with tessellated shapes, a set of infinitely receding hallways, and six more “implausible but not impossible” settings that likewise demonstrate some of math’s central tools and ideas—often in an interactive way that requires folding, recognizing patterns, or interlacing pre-cut elements. Artymowska fills her big, square illustrations with both clearly drawn examples of each main concept and smaller details to search out, such as sets of nesting dolls to match up. (A tiny mouse and even the rabbit show up now and then, too.) Spurred by a reminder that inverses can themselves be inverted, Molly, depicted as a small child with light brown skin, a black pageboy, and a bright, inquiring look, rides through wormholes back to her room for a well-earned rest…but Cheng carries on with second looks at 17 notions met along the way, from types of symmetry to fractals, Latin squares to logical paradoxes.

Considerably more than six “implausible but not impossible” things to believe before breakfast…and after. (Informational novelty. 6-11)

Kirkus Reviews