Contributed by
Aidan Tompkins
This book was recognized for its quality by the Mathical Book Prize. The writing is a little more advanced and appropriately unpredictable for a story about forecasting the end of the world. Kemi correctly explains the multiplication rule to calculate probability, but it never goes much deeper than that; she admits that the Monty Hall Problem is hard to wrap her head around. Since the protagonist is neither a genius nor a prodigy, 11-year old Kemi has a few statements that seem to misunderstand probability, but it was more fun than irritating. The mathematical content was definitely geared towards educating children, yet I still learned that Gerolamo Cardano is called the father of probability!
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