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1) Garden math
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explains how math can be used in a garden, from measuring the area to predicting vegetable growth.
4) Math curse
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
6) Go figure!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A collection of math activities that include brainteasers, magic tricks, and mind-reading games.--
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Snacks can be as simple as a cheese stick or as complicated as ants on a log or chocolate chip cookies! Readers can try out four different snack recipes using this book and a little help from an adult as well as hone their math skills in the real world of their kitchen! Each recipe is paired with a word problem using measuring, addition, subtraction, and more readers learn in the math classroom. Written especially for young readers, each problem...
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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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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Reviews the practical math skills used in everyday personal and professional life; offers techniques for working with decimals and fractions; and demonstrates methods of figuring discounts, calculating interest rates, and working out time, rate, and distance problems.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Using a delightful assortment of examples--from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares--this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You'll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but you'll also have fun fooling around with...
17) Simply math
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Math is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short on time but hungry for knowledge. Covering more than 80 key mathematical theories from prime numbers and matrices to logarithms and quadratic equations, each pared-back, single-page entry explains the concept more clearly than ever before. Organized by major themes - number theory and systems; algebra, arithmetic,...
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Help your child master their early numeracy skills with Number Skills-the latest addition to Priddy's successful wipe-clean workbook range. This colorful workbook comes with a dry-wipe pen, perforated number cards, and 44 pages of activities to help children write their numbers, recognize number models to 10, and do simple addition and subtraction.Each page includes colorful photographs and illustrations to make the activities engaging and enjoyable,...
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This Times Tables workbook is a new addition to Priddy's successful wipe-clean workbook series. It comes with a dry-wipe pen, perforated flash cards, and 48 pages of activities to help children master their times tables.- Times tables are important mathematical building blocks but can be hard to memorize- Colorful photographs and illustrations make practicing them more enjoyable- The wipe-clean activities can be attempted, wiped clean, and repeated...