Fly a jet fighter
By: Hilary Koll, Steve Mills
Contributors: Mills, Steve, 1955- author
Series: You do the maths
Publisher: QED Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781781716885
Subjects: Mathematics; Problems, exercises; Juvenile literature; Fighter planes; Piloting
Description: Take to the skies on a mission to be the best fighter pilot! Follow each stage of the mission and complete the maths exercises to create your squadron of jet fighter aces! From addition and decimals to line graphs and pie charts, these books have different challenges to be solved with a varying range of difficulty. These four titles make maths accessible and exciting by relating it to the real world. Each title includes a glossary to explain any mathematical words or terms that the reader may struggle with, to aid the learning process.
Table of contents: title: High speed (adding and subtracting); title: Different types of jet fighter (handling data); title: The history of jet fighters (timeline work); title: Jet fighter uses ((pie charts); title: Fighter pilot selection process (interpreting tables); title: Fighter pilot training (time intervals); title: Pilot calculations (multiplying and dividing); title: In the cockpit (reading dials and scales); title: Formation fling (2D shapes and triangular numbers); title: G-force (multiplying and angles); title: Weather data (data handling and graphs); title: Reconnaissance (map work and co-ordinates); title: Air to air combat (angles and translations); title: Answers.