学习如何用地道英文表达数学，仅作交流分享， 勿用作商业用途。
Our lives wouldn’t bethe same without maths. In fact, everything would stop without it. Withoutnumbers we couldn’t count a thing, there would be no money, no system ofmeasuring, no shops, no roads, no hospitals, no buildings, no … well, more orless “nothing” as we know it.
For example, withoutmaths we couldn’t build houses, forecast tomorrow’s weather,or fly a plane. Wedefinitely couldn’t send an astronaut into space! If we didn’t understandnumbers, we wouldn’t have TV, the internet, or smartphones. In fact, withoutnumbers, you wouldn’t even be reading this book, because it was created on a computerthat uses a special number code based on 0s and 1s to store information andmake thousands of calculations in a second.
Understanding maths alsohelps us to understand the world around us. Why do bees make their honeycombsout of hexagons? How can we describe the spiral shape formed by a seashell?Maths holds the answers to these questions and many more.
This book has beenwritten to help you get better at maths, and to learn to love it. You can workthrough it with the help of an adult, but you can also use it on your own. Thenumbered steps will talk you through the examples. There are also problems foryou to solve yourself. You’ll meet some helpful robots, too. They’ll give youhandy tips and remind you of important mathematical ideas.
Maths is not a subject,it’s a language, and it’s a universal language. To be able to speak it givesyou great power and confidence and a sense of wonder.
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