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"With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand, fun scenario such as dice rolling and bowling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations"--From publisher description.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"In 2010, award-winning professor Steven Strogatz 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 Strogatz 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,...
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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 25 cm
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"In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to...
12) Math
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Distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
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64 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
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Presents mathematical concepts using lively descriptions and cartoon illustrations personifying each concept.
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
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288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard."--Publisher description.
16) Math dictionary
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DK Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
128 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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From prime numbers to pentagons, a homework and learning resource features more than three hundred entries on the words, phrases, and concepts used by grade-school students in their math classes and their lives outside school.
17) Earthquakes
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Shows readers math skills can be used to learn more about earthquakes, including the triggers, the destruction left behind, and where they occur most often.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxv, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Cooking with ratios will unchain you from recipes and set you free. With thirty-three ratios and suggestions for enticing variations, "Ratio" is the truth ofcooking: basic preparations that teach us how the fundamental ingredients of the kitchen -- water, flour, butter and oils, milk and cream, and eggs -- work. Change the ratio and bread dough becomes pasta dough, cakes become muffins become popovers become crepes.
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