title: Math Skills Made Fun
author: Cindi Mitchell
description: Cindi Mitchell is the author of numerous titles for Scholastic Professional Books including Kaleidoscope Math: Grades 2-3, and the popular Great Graph Art and Dazzling Math Line Designs series.
zlib_text: Matt Parker
  H U M B L E  P i
  A Comedy of Maths Errors
  
  Contents
  List of Illustrations
  0 Introduction
  1 Losing Track of Time
  2 Engineering Mistakes
  3 Little Data
  4 Out of Shape
  5 You Can’t Count on It
  6 Does Not Compute
  7 Probably Wrong
  8 Put Your Money Where Your Mistakes Are
  9 A Round-about Way
  9.49 Too Small to Notice
  10 Units, Conventions, and Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
  11 Stats the Way I Like It
  12 Tltloay Rodanm
  13 Does Not Compute
  So, what have we learned from our mistakes?
  Acknowledgements
  Index
  
  About the Author
  Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in
  Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever
  made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of
  noughts and ones in seconds. He loves doing maths and stand-up, often
  simultaneously. When he’s not working as the Public Engagement in
  Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he’s performing
  in sold-out live comedy shows, spreading his love