Actuary Abby and the Future-Telling Zoo
Why we picked it
This rhyming, imaginative picture book uses a cast of zoo animals to explain what actuaries actually do, making insurance and risk planning genuinely fun for younger readers.
Our review
What exactly do actuaries do all day? Abby answers with a tour of a fantastical zoo, where a risk-roaring lion and a modeling mole help explain insurance, pensions, and planning for tomorrow. Told in playful rhyme, it makes an abstract career wonderfully concrete for young readers, showing that thinking ahead about the future can be every bit as magical as it is mathematical.
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About this book
From the product listing
What do actuaries do?Find out in Abbys Future-Telling ZooFrom the author of the Actuarial Joke BookComes this childrens story that deserves a look.Join Abby on a tour of a fantastical zooShowing all the wonderful things that actuaries do.From insurance to pensions, she covers them allWith a host of creatures, both big and so small.Animals like the risk roaring lion and a modelling moleWhere explaining the actuarial world is their goal.Learn how actuaries plan for tomorrow in a math-magical wayTo make things better every day.So what are you waiting for? Come on inside!And let Abby take you on a fun actuarial ride.John is an actuarial tutor based in the UKBut thats only what he does in the day.
Resource details
- Resource type
- Book
- Age ranges
- Elementary, Middle School
- Careers
- Actuary
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