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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
In this clever guide, readers previously daunted by algebra, logic, algorithms, and all things math will discover they are better at it than they thought. This resource explores the math brain and demonstrates to readers that they use math skills all the time -- they just don't know it yet. Packed with math activities and puzzles.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, SI Math Maker Lab is designed to appeal to math geeks and those that prefer practical projects. To complete these engaging projects, kids don't need to be math geniuses or even know how to use a calculator. Each task comes with easy-to-follow instructions, photographs, and illustrations to help whip up super cool mathematics creations!"--
83) Count on me
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Description
A young girl explains why she loves math and how she finds it in her everyday life.
84) Critical point
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Series
Cas Russell novels volume 3
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"Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created. And that's just the start: when a demolitions expert targets Cas and her friends, and the hidden conspiracy behind Cas's past starts to reappear, the past, present, and future collide in a race to save one of her dearest friends."--Publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
35 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Betsy Franco is back with a performance that explores a range of math topics--from fractions and time measurements to geometry and graphs--in a way that relates math to the daily lives of children. Illustrated by Priscilla Tey, whose clever mechanical "Numbots" guide readers through a surreal playground of calculated delights from multiplying mice to missing socks, from stinky scales to bug races
86) Anathem
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Pub. Date
2008
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Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"An uncommon guide for accomplishing more every day by engaging the unique skill of forgetting, from the creator of the award-winning memory training system Brainetics Is it possible that the answer to becoming a more efficient and effective thinker is learning how to forget? Yes! Mike Byster will show you how mastering this extraordinary technique--forgetting unnecessary information, sifting through brain clutter, and focusing on only important nuggets...
92) Singer distance
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"In December 1960, Rick Hayworth drives his genius girlfriend, Crystal, and three other MIT grad students across the country to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades. Crystal thinks she's...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Description
"A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm.
Description
This book teaches young learners how to get inspired, problem-solve, and collaborate with others as they take on four engineering challenges, including building a stool out of newspaper and constructing a roller coaster for a marble. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A glossary is also included.
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Series
Critter club volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
Members of the Critter Club are all excited about their summer plans until Liz learns that, instead of taking an art class, she will have to be in summer school to improve her math skills, but a fun teacher, a classroom pet, support from her friends, and advice from her brother might get her through.
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Discover the Math & Reading Workbook Series! Our selection of activities and problems provides a fun and easy approach to building math skills. This book contains math problems presented as with pictures and words. Questions and answers are provided on separate pages. Each question page presents a math problem using three different approaches: 1) The problem is written in large, bold numbers on the right. For rapid review, you can use the math
...97) Solving for m
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"Shortly after starting fifth grade, Mika learns that her mother has cancer and uses her math notebook to explore the new changes in her life"--
99) Secrets of mental math: the mathemagician's guide to lightning calculation and amazing math tricks
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Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxiv, 278 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
An accessible guide to mathematical calculation reveals the secrets of rapid mental calculation, memorization, and other feats of the mind, with tips on how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and work with fractions, squares, and cube roots.
100) The story of maths
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 232 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (17 p.)
Description
In this landmark series of films, University of Oxford Professor Marcus du Sautoy escorts viewers through the history of this most important of all intellectual disciplines. In a journey that takes him through the ages and around the world, he examines the development of key mathematical ideas and shows how, in a multitude of surprising ways, mathematical ideas underpin the science, technology, and culture that shape our world.
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