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Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Math is everywhere in sports! See who's scoring inside this bookand how we need math to finish the game! You'll need your math smarts to calculate scores and statistics, plan season schedules, measure distances, choose the right size equipment, and more. It all adds up to a lot of fun!
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English
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Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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Series
Great Courses volume 9
Language
English
Description
Logic is intellectual self-defense against such assaults on reason and also a method of quality control for checking the validity of your own views. But beyond these very practical benefits, informal logic—the kind we apply in daily life—is the gateway to an elegant and fascinating branch of philosophy known as formal logic, which is philosophy’s equivalent to calculus. Formal logic is a breathtakingly versatile tool. Much like a Swiss army...
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The Great Courses
Language
English
Description
We commonly define the Pythagorean theorem using the formula a2 + b2 = c2. But Pythagoras himself would have been confused by that. Explore how this famous theorem can be explained using common geometric shapes (no fancy algebra required), and how it’s a critical foundation for the rest of geometry.
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English
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Introducing sophisticated mathematical ideas like fractals and infinity, these hands-on activity books present concepts to children using interactive and comprehensible methods. With intriguing projects that cover a wide range of math content and skills, these are ideal resources for elementary school mathematics enrichment programs, regular classroom instruction, and home-school programs. Reproducible activity sheets lead students through a process...
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Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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Math is everywhere when you're traveling! See who's on the move inside this bookand how we need math to finish the trip! You'll need your math smarts to calculate time, distance, and speed, choose the best route and type of transit, figure out time zones, plan travel expenses; and more. It all adds up to a lot of fun!
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With this book, kids can unlock the mysteries of math and discover the wonder of numbers. From fractions to pi, and measurements to probability, kids will find out incredible information, such as why zero is so useful; how to tell time on Earth and other planets; how music, math, and space, are all connected and so much more!"--
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English
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"In 2010, award-winning professor Steven wrote a series for the New York Times online called "The Elements of Math." It was hugely popular: Each piece climbed the most emailed list and elicited hundreds of comments. Readers begged for more, and has now delivered. In this fun, fast-paced book, he offers us all a second chance at math. Each short chapter of The Joy of X provides an "Aha!" moment, starting with why numbers are helpful, and moving on...
13) Math
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Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents mathematical concepts using lively descriptions and cartoon illustrations personifying each concept.
14) Math smart
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.
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Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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"Do you like numbers? Do you like to cook? Then Math You Can Munch is the right book for you! Learn about what mathematicians do and what they have discovered. Then explore math further by making delicious snacks. Check out the entire Super Simple Science You Can Snack On series for more tasty STEM fun!" -- Page 4 of cover.
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