Our math CD-ROM teaches Geometry, Algebra, Trig, Probability, Statistics, Numbers, and Topology. It also features games, magic tricks, puzzles, and a Math Lab Make math fun for Kids, Teachers, Parents, and Homeschoolers.
Make math fun and easy
for kids ages 10 to 14
with our CD-ROM
Solid Gold Gnarly Math.
What's in Gnarly Math?
More than eighteen hours of entertainment
and instruction on
geometry, trigonometry, algebra, probability, topology, and numbers,
all aimed at helping you and your kids learn math
-- making it fun and understandable.
The turtle plays a part in a paradox discussed in Solid Gold Gnarly Math.
Numbers
1. See some curiosities and paradoxes - - like the one about the uncatchable turtle
2. Learn about the different kinds of numbers -- wholes, fractions, and more
3. Review arithmetic, including fractions, percent, and square roots
4. Find out about binary and other number systems that aren't based on ten
5. Discover imaginary and perfect numbers.

Algebra will teach you how to mix cereals so you get the most in sweets and the least in fiber. Algebra
1. Discover what mix of cereals will satisfy both your love of sugar and your need for fiber in your diet
2. Learn what it means to plot equations
3. See how numerical mysteries are solved. This is a complete lesson on the principal rules of algebra
4. Find an easy way to add all the numbers from 1 to a million
5. See how Mathematical Chaos affects the operation of a wonderful waterwheel.
6. Read about the exploits of kid mathematicians.
7. Use algebra do discover how many regular polyhedrons (solids with flat sides) there are Cut up your pancakes the quickest way.

Topology
1. Find out the best way to cut pancakes
2. Master the art of coloring maps
3. Learn how to find the shortest route for a long trip
4. See why doughnuts and teacups have the same shape
5. Make a Mobius strip -- a piece of paper which has only one side.
6. Discover the essentials of polyhedrons -- solids with flat sides 		Learn about pi and how far your bike goes when the wheel makes one turn.
Geometry
1. Find how far a bicycle goes when its wheel makes a full turn: the number pi
2. See how Euclid proved the Laws of Geometry.
3. Discover a strange new world called Flatspace, which only has two directions, right and left.
4. Learn what all triangles have in common (besides having three sides!)
5. Compute the length of the sides of a right triangle: Pythagoras' Law
6. Learn more about circles: tangents and inner angles
  How many ways can you mix up your pets when you take a trip?
Probability
1. Find out how many ways your five pets (the alligator, bear, cat, dog, and elk) can be packed into a car
2. Calculate the likelihood that a batter will get four hits in one game
3. See why it's dangerous to bet on cards or dice
4. Watch a million monkeys working at typewriters to some day type the book 'Tom Sawyer.'
5. Discover how the CD you're now using was foreseen by Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll Would you believe there's a connection between trig and music?
 
Trigonometry
1. Discover what Math and Music have in common
2. Use trig to pilot a plane or ship to reach the place you want to go
3. See how astronomers compute things like the size of the earth and moon, and the distance to the moon, the sun, and the nearest star.
4. Review the basic rules of trigonometry, which is one of the very simplest branches of math
5. Find out how George Washington did his surveys.
6. Learn the connection between trig and Pythagoras' Law
In addition to those eighteen hours, you'll spend many more
  • Playing games.
    In one game, you and your best friend will leave Earth. You're on the spaceship Valnic in the year Here's a game that takes you out into space. 3024, heading for the distant planet Alkzag to find the leaf of the Invisiplant. In another, you're challenged to find your way across a swamp filled with alligators and quicksand. Other games test how fast you can move, think, and invent. The Math Lab in our CD-ROM lets you learn math by experimenting.

  • Experimenting.
    In the Math Lab you will conduct experiments and work out for yourself various rules on numbers and shapes and distances. Here you'll find Gnarly Math does things no book can do! For example, you can design a soccer jersey using stripes of various colors, and discover how many different jerseys are possible. Or you can roll dice as long as you want, with the computer keeping track of how many sevens (and twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, eights, nines, tens, elevens, and twelves) you roll. Here's one of several optical illusions you'll find in Solid Gold Gnarly Math.

  • Having fun
    with magic tricks, optical illusions, secret codes, puzzles, and guesses. You can also play the part of an airline pilot, or an auto mechanic, carpenter, restaurant manager, or draftsman.

  • Taking tours,
    through various parts of Gnarly Math. There's even a tour called 'Not Math'!!
         You'll find that Solid Gold Gnarly Math, is the only CD-ROM that covers the six main branches of math named above. It's also the only CD that makes math fun, with fascinating examples and a unique use of the computer's -- shall we say, "Talents".

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    "... hours and hours of fascinating math entertainment.
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