Reading+List

The following books have been recommended by various VSA teachers over the years. Each holiday, students choose one of the two books listed. Both books will teach the students (roughly) the same things, but in different ways. Enjoy the mathematics! =Year 6 Winter Holiday= [|My Lemonade Stand] by Andrew Einspruch [|Watch it Grow] by Lori Barker =Year 6-7 Summer Holiday= [|The Phantom X] by Kjartan Poskitt [|The Museum of Mysteries] by David Glover =Year 7 Winter Holiday= [|Rich Dad, Poor Dad] by Robert Kiyosaki =Year 7-8 Summer Holiday= [|Alex’s Adventures in Numberland] by Alex Bellos [|Here's Looking at Euclid] by Alex Bellos =Year 8 Winter Holiday= The Secret Millionaire's Club by A. ? =Year 8-9 Summer Holiday= [|In Code: A Mathematical Journey] by Sarah Flannery [|The Number Devil] by Hans Magnus Enzenberger =Year 9 Winter Holiday= [|The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy] by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko [|Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen] by Thomas J. Stanley [|The Millionaire Mind] by Thomas J. Stanley =Year 9-10 Summer Holiday= [|Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions] by Edwin Abbott Abbott [|Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe] by Dionys Burger, Cornelie J. Rheinboldt & Isaac Asimov =Year 10 Winter Holiday= [|The Unfair Advantage] by Robert Kiyosaki =Year 10-11 Summer Holiday= [|Gödel, Escher, Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid] by Douglas Hofstadter (there are many other books by Hofstadter that would be OK as well) [|What's the Name of this Book?] by Raymond Smullyan (or any book by Smullyan) =Year 11 Winter Holiday= [|Secrets of the Millionaire Mind] by Harv Eker [|The Automatic Millionaire] by David Bach =Year 11-12 Summer Holiday= [|The Misbehavior of Markets] by Benoit Mandelbrot [|The Black Swan] by Nassim Nicholas Taleb =Year 12 Winter Holiday= [|Stocks for the Long Run] by Jeremy Siegel [|Weekend Millionaire Mindset: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Success] by Mike & Roger Dawson Summey =Off to College Summer Holiday= [|The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke] by Suze Orman [|Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk] by Peter L. Bernstein