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Category: Mathematics

A New Online Math Course Like No Other!
We’re excited to offer a new math course that will prove interesting and engaging, both for kids who don’t particularly enjoy the subject and for those who are bored or turned off by their mathematics education.

Different Approaches to Math for Different Kids
We believe that any lesson can be enjoyable if it’s served up in the right package. That’s why we offer so many different approaches to math. From picture books to novels to online courses, every child can find a way to fall in love with math.

10 Fascinating Facts about Famous Mathematicians
When you think about mathematicians, you might imagine that they live boring lives churning out calculations, but you’d be wrong. In this article, author Robert Black presents some strange and little-known facts from the lives of ten famous mathematicians.

Royal Fireworks Math Book Wins Award!
We’re proud to announce that Robert Black’s mathematical biography “Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World” has been selected for the 2022 Best STEM Books list! The selection is a joint project of the National Science Teaching Association and the Children’s Book Council.

6 Surprising Mathematical Back Stories
Have you ever wondered where mathematicians get their ideas? New mathematical breakthroughs can have some surprising origins. Here are six fascinating mathematical back stories.

A New Biography for Mathematicians and Historians Both!
We’re excited to announce the publication of the newest book in the Mathematical Lives series of biographical novels: “Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies.” If you’ve ever heard of “the Butterfly Effect,” then you’ve heard the term that was coined for Lorenz’s discovery, which led to the revolutionary concept of chaos theory.

A New Story that Teaches Young Children Multiplication!
We’re excited to announce the next book in the Awesum Alex series: “Awesum Alex, Math Detective: The Multiplication Problem.” Children who have been following Alex and her friends through the addition and subtraction books will be thrilled to encounter them again as they learn how to multiply!

Does math SCARE your child? Make it fun with these SPOOKY math books!
Plenty of children think of math as an absolute nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, math can be spooktacular! Before your child protests that there’s not a ghost of a chance that that’s true, check out our Mathematical Nights Math Fiction books, a phantasm…er, fangtastic…er, fantastic set of novels that make math devilishly fun.

An Interdisciplinary—and Very Human—Approach to Math
Animated movies. Computer games. Smartphone technology. All of these things have in common fractals, which Benoit Mandlebrot opened up for us. Children who learn how this man bested the odds to discover something that has altered the world as we know it today will be welcomed into the subject of math in a way that a worksheet of problems can never do.

Newly Revised Mathematical Reasoning Books for Kids!
We are excited to reintroduce the Problemoids mathematical reasoning books for children in grades 4, 5, and 6! These books give children an opportunity to put on their thinking caps to try to figure out the solutions to challenging problems in mathematics, mathematical reasoning, and basic logic.

A Book for Making Math Fun for Young Children
We are pleased to reissue an updated and revised edition of a math book for parents that will make learning math fun for young children: “Educational Play: Math Games and Activities for Your Child.” The book is chock full of ways to make math both relevant to the real world and fun.

A New Book about an Unsung Hero
We are pleased to offer the latest installment in the Mathematical Lives series of biographical novels by author Robert Black. “Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World” is a fascinating look at one of the most influential mathematicians of the twenty-first century. Mandelbrot founded fractal geometry, which is instrumental in today’s animated films, smartphone antennas, and so much more.

Royal Fireworks Press Book Wins Award!
We’re thrilled to announce that our biographical novel “David Blackwell and the Deadliest Duel” has been selected as a 2021 Mathical Honor Book! This winning title by Robert Black delves into the life and work of David Blackwell, who is regarded as a brilliant mathematician whose contributions helped to lay the foundation for fields such as information theory.

A New Twist on Math
We’re announcing the re-release of one of our classic publications: “Math Verses with Twists.” This math book, which has been redesigned and freshly edited, contains 100 math problems, logic puzzles, and conundrums that will get kids thinking about math in new and creative ways.