Using maths: build a skyscraper

Step into the shoes of a skyscraper engineer and use your maths skills to build one of these amazing sky-scraping structures. Use numbers, plans, shapes and measures. Calculate lengths, heights, areas, times and quantities. And use maths to produce one of the tallest buildings around.

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Author(s)Hilary Koll, Steve Mills, William Baker
Age5-7, 7-11
Published2006
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Shelf reference372.7 USI
ISN/ISBN9781860079863
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8cwk

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