Mathland: The enigma of the arithmetic talisman
Alan is a teenager who hates maths. One morning, after an argument with his teacher, he is expelled from class and hides in a forgotten storage room in the school. A terrifying figure emerges from the darkness and transports him to a surprising and magical world called Mathland. There he will meet Zero and the small whole units, very peculiar beings who are running away from the evil queen. There is a powerful talisman that could help them and bring Alan back home, but to find it he must first face and overcome his worst enemy, the fear of mathematics.
These are the challenges for Alan and his friends:
- Parity and fairness
- Perfect squares. Powers and roots
- Prime numbers. Divisibility, factorisation and least common multiple
- Addition and product of integers. Additive inverse
- Order of basic arithmetic operations
- Coordinates in the plane
- Sequences. Fibonacci sequence
- Logical thinking
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Authors:
Pedro A. Martínez Ortiz holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Alicante and a degree in Technical Sciences and Statistics from the Miguel Hernández University. He has worked in scientific research, bringing mathematics into the study of physical, geological and genetic phenomena. However, his passion is teaching. He is currently a mathematics teacher in a Secondary School and an associate professor at the University of Alicante. In 2018 the project “Emocionar con matemáticas” was awarded the Grandes Iniciativas de Éxito Educativo (Great Educational Success Initiatives) prize by the Atresmedia foundation and the International University of Valencia. A year later, he was recognised by the Educa platform as the Best Secondary School Teacher in Spain.
With the aim of sharing ideas, educational projects and creating a compendium of teaching material, he created the website www.maths4everything.com with the handle @mathsforeverything on Twitter and Instagram.
Sonia Müller is an illustrator and comic book artist from Barcelona, graduated in Graphic Art at Escola Joso. Her short story El cuervo de piedra was nominated in the Clip Studio International Comic School Contest in 2022. She is currently working on her first two original comics. She has also illustrated for RTVE, private commissions and taken part in the creation of several fanzines.
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