Re:Ask HN: Any math-focused gift recommendations for kids?
by DoreenMichele on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:42PM
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Books:
The Number Devil
Alice in Quantumland
If you can tolerate a little off color humor, any of the "Cartoon guides..." By Larry Gonick are excellent for a variety of subjects.
(If you can find old Star Wars themed software by Lucas Learning that still works, they did terrific things. Iirc, Droidworks basically taught set theory, though by example. It provided no explanation and I had to provide the explanation of set theory to my sons. But I assume it's all out of print now.)
The Number Devil
Alice in Quantumland
If you can tolerate a little off color humor, any of the "Cartoon guides..." By Larry Gonick are excellent for a variety of subjects.
(If you can find old Star Wars themed software by Lucas Learning that still works, they did terrific things. Iirc, Droidworks basically taught set theory, though by example. It provided no explanation and I had to provide the explanation of set theory to my sons. But I assume it's all out of print now.)