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Author McKellar, Danica.

Title Girls get curves : geometry takes shape / Danica McKellar.

Imprint New York : Plume/Penguin Group, 2013, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Young Adult Non-Fiction  YA516 Mck    ---  Available
Description xiv, 413 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note "A Plume book"--t.-p.
Includes index.
Summary Hollywood actress and math whiz Danica McKellar has completely shattered the "math nerd" stereotype. For years, she's been showing girls how to feel confident and ace their math classes--with style! With Girls Get Curves, she applies her winning techniques to geometry, giving readers the tools they need to feel great and totally 'get' everything from congruent triangles to theorems, and more. With Danica a personal tutor and coach, girls everywhere can stop hiding from their homework and watch their scores rise!
Contents Geometry basics -- Introduction to proofs -- Triangles, congruence, and more proofs -- Parallel lines and polygons -- Similarity, circles, area, and volume.
Subject Geometry -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
Girls -- Education -- United States.
Girls -- United States -- Psychology.
ISBN 0452298741 (pbk.)
9780452298743 (pbk.)

 
    
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