Homework For Grown-Ups. Everything You Learnt At School And Promptly Forgot

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: EBURY PRESS
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 418 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Dont know your isosceles from your equilateral Forgotten who wrote Waltzing Matilda Do you know when youve left a participle hanging And are you left slack-jawed when your children ask you what quid pro quo meansBewildered already Fret no longer.Homework for Grown-ups Australian Edition is a brilliantly informative and entertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults. It swots up on mathematics (covering algebra, Pythagoras theorem, prime numbers and the Fibonacci sequence), English grammar and literature (do you know how to read a poem), chemistry and the sciences (including the Big Bang theory), geography (can you name the planets in order), history (how to remember the Eureka Stockade, plus Federation and the first Prime Minister), art, Latin, modern languages, PE, home economics, and much more.Homework for Grown-ups Australian Edition is packed with essential facts, figures and theories, along with fun but challenging test papers to keep you on your toes and reignite those dormant brain-cells. A practical and wonderfully nostalgic revision guide for adults, Homework for Grown-ups Australian edition will entertain while exercising the mind and might even equip parents to handle their childs homework without humiliation.

ISBN: 9781741668810