Solve a crime
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: 9781781716892
Subjects: Mathematics; Problems, exercises; Juvenile literature; Criminal investigation
Description: Collect the clues to become an amazing super-sleuth! Follow each stage of the case and complete the maths exercises to track down and catch the criminal. 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: Types of crime (fractions, decimals, percentages); title: Police detectives (interpreting tables); title: Scene of the crime (maps and co-ordinates); title: Forensics and fingerprinting (pie charts); title: DNA (fractions) Timelines and alibis (timelines and calculations); title: Camera footage (area and fractions); title: Vital evidence (working with time); title: Surveillance (frequency tables); title: Profiling (interpreting tables); title: E-fits (measurements and ratios); title: Solving the crime (calculations and interpreting data); title: The arrest (routes and directions); title: Answers.