Mike Goldsmith

Fully illustrated with gorgeous pictures and other illustrations. Layout is easy to navigate. Lots of data on pages, in varying sizes, diminishing as it gets more detailed, making it a good reference for multiple ages. Section headings: Observing Space, The Solar System, Stars and Galaxies, Space Exploration, Space in the Future. Each section has a dozen or more spreads on sub-headings.

This Book Thinks You’re A Math Genius, is an informational text-style book geared towards igniting an interest in math. Topics such as, geometry, statistics, ciphers, and even the concept of infinity is introduced in a highly visual simplified way. Using this book as a way to front-load a concept before a lecture, preemptively answering why a concept is important to learn. I liked this book due to the visual diagrams it used and the simplified language.

A lot of history about math is covered in this book. It focuses on how your brain processes numbers and logic and skills to use. Multiple puzzles and brain teasers are throughout the book that can appeal to students and engage them in learning. The answers to these can be found in the back. As a teacher, this can be a great book to use for maybe warmup questions to get students to think critically, and the answers in the back can help check your answers.

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