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Bridget "Biddy" Mason was an African-American midwife, nurse, real estate entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former slave who influenced the history of Los Angeles and California. Learn about her fascinating life with this primary source biography that builds students' reading skills and promotes social studies content knowledge. The dynamic primary source maps, letters, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested...
42) Math with pets
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The pet store is a perfect place to exercise math concepts. Readers will be delighted as this fun volume introduces them to parrots, kittens, puppies, and other animals while reviewing important standards of the math curriculum. They'll review size comparison, sorting, numbers, and counting. This high-interest topic and the vivid accompanying photographs provide an accessible and enjoyable introduction or review of elementary math skills.
43) Plus 2, minus 2
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This math concept book engages young readers through simple text and photos as they learn how groups change when you add 2 or take away 2.
44) Math curse
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When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse. From the inventive team that brought you The Stinky Cheese Man, a tale of a girl in the relentless grip of math-mania. What if you think of everything as a math problem--and you spend your morning tabulating your teeth and calculating your corn flakes? You've got the math curse, that's what! Let...
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Click! As their shutters snap, photographers capture special moments in time. Photos give us something to look at while we use our memories to look back in time. Meet a photographer and find out what it takes to be one. Along the way, sharpen your focus on place value. This nonfiction math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help students explore math...
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Three cheers for the champions of the animal kingdom! These are the largest, smallest, smartest, and sneakiest creatures in the world. From the tiny bumblebee bat to the massive saltwater crocodile, these unique animals deserve a round of applause for breaking records for size and speed. By integrating math and literacy skills, this high-interest math reader makes learning fractions fun and easy as students are engaged in reading about amazing animals....
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Have you ever seen a building that looks like a koala bear, a robot, an elephant, or a pair of pants? This intriguing title teaches readers about skyscrapers that truly stand out! From Beijing to Bangkok, students will learn how to calculate area while reading about the world's most fascinating skyscrapers like the Robot Building and the Elephant Tower. This math reader builds literacy and math content knowledge while introducing students to the concept...
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Tiny houses are exactly what they sound like-tiny! But, these little places are seeing a huge rise in popularity. Step inside and see what it takes for a tiny house to shape up, as you learn to compose and decompose shapes. This nonfiction math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help students explore math in a meaningful way. The Let's Explore Math...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Before 1854 when George Boole published The Laws of Thought, the subject of 'logic' in the western world was entirely restricted to the study of the Aristotelian syllogism, which was as old as 384-322 BC. In this work, Boole introduces a sort of algebra of propositions with probability. Boole's logic forms the basis for present day Boolean Algebra, which in turn lies...
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"The object of the following chapters is not to teach mathematics, but to enable students from the very beginning of their course to know what the science is about, and why it is necessarily the foundation of exact thought as applied to natural phenomena." Thus begins this volume by the prominent English philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, a concise statement on the nature and meaning of mathematics for the general student. Expertly...
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Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.-Albert Einstein
Everyone has heard students' most common complaint in math class: "Why do I need to learn this? I'll never use it when I'm older!" Some of us have even been that complainer. Many people's difficulties with learning math in school follow them into adulthood, by which time they often assume that it's too late to do anything about it. But...
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Mircea Pitici holds a PhD mathematics education from Cornell University, where he teaches math and writing. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.
The year's most memorable writing on mathematics
This anthology brings together the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, The Best Writing on Mathematics makes available to a wide...
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Michael Huber is associate professor of mathematics at Muhlenberg College.
Fun math puzzles based on the Twelve Labors of Hercules
How might Hercules, the most famous of the Greek heroes, have used mathematics to complete his astonishing Twelve Labors? From conquering the Nemean Lion and cleaning out the Augean Stables, to capturing the Erymanthean Boar and entering the Underworld to defeat the three-headed dog Cerberus, Hercules and his legend...
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This book covers topics such as Elements of the theory of sets; Real numbers; Metric spaces; Additional properties of the real line; Normed spaces; Hilbert spaces; Spaces of continuous functions; Differential calculus; Analytic functions; Application of analytic functions to plane topology; Existence theorems; Elementary spectral theory; Elements of linear algebra.
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The book is a general description and a reflection of my journey in unearthing the mysteries of mathematics as a subject and an approach toward understanding and learning it. It will not necessarily give you tools but will prepare you to approach the subject with confidence and an open mind-set. The book classifies the evolution of math, from prehistoric times to current and contemporary issues, and the future affecting the subject. It also gives...
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The revised and enlarged edition of this book is designed to serves unique reference and textbook for students of B.Ed. classes in Indian Universities. Ideals all major aspects of Teaching of mathematics. In the present times, Mathematics occupies an important place in curriculum. In this book, an attempt has been made to cover most of the topic included in the B.Ed. courses besides the Regular and Cores pendency courses of Indian Universities. the...
59) The Principia
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First published in Latin in 1687, "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", commonly referred to as "The Principia", is the groundbreaking work of science and mathematics by Isaac Newton. Consisting of three books, "The Principia" was updated twice by Newton during his lifetime, with new editions published in 1713 and 1726, as he further refined and expanded his ideas. "The Principia" introduced Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal...
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This classic of mathematics presents the best systematic elementary account of the modern theory of the continuum as a type of serial order. Based on the Dedekind-Cantor ordinal theory, this text requires no knowledge of higher mathematics. Contents include a historical introduction and chapters on classes in general; simply ordered classes, or series; discrete series, especially the type of the natural numbers; dense series, especially the type of...