Build a skycraper
By: by Hilary Koll, Steve Mills and William Baker
Contributors: Mills, Steve, 1955-; Baker, William, 1953-
Series: Using maths; Using maths
Publisher: Ticktock
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tunbridge Wells
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781860079863
Subjects: Skyscrapers; Juvenile literature; Design and construction; Mathematics; Problems, exercises
Description: Step into the shoes of a skyscraper engineer and use your maths skills to build one of these amazing sky-scraping structures. Use numbers, plans, shapes and measures. Calculate lengths, heights, areas, times and quantities. And use maths to produce one of the tallest buildings around.
Table of contents: title: Know your skyscrapers; title: Record-breaking skyscrapers; title: The building site; title: The skyscraper's strength; title: Your design; title: Good foundations; title: Strengthening the structure; title: Resisting earthquakes; title: Lifts and emergency stairwells; title: The building process; title: Your final skyscraper.