Download or read book Shape written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times Bestseller! “Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning.” —The New York Times From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything. How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? All these are questions about geometry. For real. If you're like most people, geometry is a sterile and dimly remembered exercise you gladly left behind in the dust of ninth grade, along with your braces and active romantic interest in pop singers. If you recall any of it, it's plodding through a series of miniscule steps only to prove some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That's not geometry. Okay, it is geometry, but only a tiny part, which has as much to do with geometry in all its flush modern richness as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel. Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. The word "geometry"comes from the Greek for "measuring the world." If anything, that's an undersell. Geometry doesn't just measure the world—it explains it. Shape shows us how.

Download or read book Geometric Shapes Gr 2 5 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Logo written by D Lamont Johnson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Logo: A Retrospective, you?ll look back and see why attempts to teach Logo in American schools failed the first time it was introduced, and you?ll learn what you can do so educators don?t make the same mistake again. You?ll explore how teachers can sidestep the all-too-familiar cycle of zealous overselling, eventual disappointment, backlash, and abandonment that undermined Logo?s first appearance in American school curricula. Of particular interest to teachers, parents, computer programmers, and members of the general public, Logo: A Retrospective, thoroughly and more accurately outlines Logo?s philosophical and theoretical framework and shows you how you can play a part in the current Logo renaissance already thriving in Australia, Latin America, and Europe. Specifically, this book contains: a decade?s worth of scholarly research on Logo information concerning Logo?s future and evolution strategies for handling student autonomy and teacher intervention recent software design data and feedback for learning Logo new research on computer programming?s effects on children?s cognitive development Without a doubt, computers and other electronic media will be a vital source of learning in the classrooms of the future. The development of powerful new versions of the Logo language, such as MicroWorlds, is welcome evidence that Logo?s popularity is on the rise. So put the past behind you. Read Logo: A Retrospective, and see what?s presently giving schoolchildren all over the world a fresh headstart at their classroom computer terminals.

Download or read book Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists written by Miriam Zelditch and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists has been the primary resource for teaching modern geometric methods of shape analysis to biologists who have a stronger background in biology than in multivariate statistics and matrix algebra. These geometric methods are appealing to biologists who approach the study of shape from a variety of perspectives, from clinical to evolutionary, because they incorporate the geometry of organisms throughout the data analysis. The second edition of this book retains the emphasis on accessible explanations, and the copious illustrations and examples of the first, updating the treatment of both theory and practice. The second edition represents the current state-of-the-art and adds new examples and summarizes recent literature, as well as provides an overview of new software and step-by-step guidance through details of carrying out the analyses. - Contains updated coverage of methods, especially for sampling complex curves and 3D forms and a new chapter on applications of geometric morphometrics to forensics - Offers a reorganization of chapters to streamline learning basic concepts - Presents detailed instructions for conducting analyses with freely available, easy to use software - Provides numerous illustrations, including graphical presentations of important theoretical concepts and demonstrations of alternative approaches to presenting results

Download or read book Elasticsearch The Definitive Guide written by Clinton Gormley and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data—or both—the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore data with Elasticsearch, but also helps you deal with the complexities of human language, geolocation, and relationships. If you’re a newcomer to both search and distributed systems, you’ll quickly learn how to integrate Elasticsearch into your application. More experienced users will pick up lots of advanced techniques. Throughout the book, you’ll follow a problem-based approach to learn why, when, and how to use Elasticsearch features. Understand how Elasticsearch interprets data in your documents Index and query your data to take advantage of search concepts such as relevance and word proximity Handle human language through the effective use of analyzers and queries Summarize and group data to show overall trends, with aggregations and analytics Use geo-points and geo-shapes—Elasticsearch’s approaches to geolocation Model your data to take advantage of Elasticsearch’s horizontal scalability Learn how to configure and monitor your cluster in production

Download or read book Learning Shapes with Bun Bun written by Donna Eastin Garrison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are surrounded by shapes in our everyday life. Have fun with your child as you search for shapes in our world. Go beyond shape identification. To increase your child’s relationship between self and the objects around them, begin having discussions about geometry to enrich shape knowledge and vocabulary. Bun Bun is an incredible little guy who will engage your child in learning developmentally appropriate academic skills and concepts. Ninety percent of a child’s brain develops before the age of five. When you read a Learning with Bun Bun book with your child, they will enjoy ongoing opportunities to acquire, practice, and apply their new learning to develop mastery for personal and academic success while having lots of fun with Bun Bun!

Download or read book Fun and Games With Math written by Ouida Simmons and published by Tales Not Soon Forgotten. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." Buddah Certainty for Uncertainty is a powerful collection of undisputed facts that have the capacity to enhance our spiritual thoughts and expand our awareness of the reality of God's existence and the true presence of the human Soul. Certainty from Uncertainty examines the words and thoughts of many of the world's greatest philosophers, scientists, intellectuals, and metaphysicians and develops through their thoughts a compelling argument for the existence of God, the Soul, and the evolution of the human Soul to Omega Consciousness (a state of human consciousness in which the consciousness of God and humankind are identical). Dr. Prato takes the reader for a hand-in-hand walk with the world's greatest thinkers and intellectuals. Without a preaching to the choir tone, he appeals to skeptics and believers alike, presenting compelling evidence of God's existence from many of the brightest minds in our history outside the religious realm. What were the spiritual thoughts of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; of renowned scientists such as Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Henry Margenau, and many others nearly all Nobel Prize winners? What thoughts of God did Baruch Spinoza, Wilhelm Liebniz, Larry Dossey and David Bohm have in common? Does the history of the thoughts of these profound thinkers allow us to understand how they came to a near-identical belief in the Universal Presence? How do their thoughts coincide with the thoughts of the Prophet David when he wrote his timeless 23rd Psalm? Certainty From Uncertainty raises the veil on these magnificent intuitive connections. Of Certainty From Uncertainty Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and Recovering the Soul says: The great task of a lifetime is to find our way to the Absolute or God, however conceived. This "spiritual text" is a guide for our time, which many people who are engaged in spiritual work will find immensely helpful. Peter Prato shows us there is a final common pathway uniting science, spirituality and healing. His message is about unity, which our age desperately needs to recover. Certainty From Uncertainty leads us through these esoteric thoughts, filled with mystery and wonder, into the realm of the miracle and the near-death experience, then to Omega Consciousness--a state of being where humans become fully integrated with the consciousness of God.

Download or read book Targeting Maths written by Judy Tertini and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Learning Elasticsearch written by Abhishek Andhavarapu and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Store, search, and analyze your data with ease using Elasticsearch 5.x About This Book Get to grips with the basics of Elasticsearch concepts and its APIs, and use them to create efficient applications Create large-scale Elasticsearch clusters and perform analytics using aggregation This comprehensive guide will get you up and running with Elasticsearch 5.x in no time Who This Book Is For If you want to build efficient search and analytics applications using Elasticsearch, this book is for you. It will also benefit developers who have worked with Lucene or Solr before and now want to work with Elasticsearch. No previous knowledge of Elasticsearch is expected. What You Will Learn See how to set up and configure Elasticsearch and Kibana Know how to ingest structured and unstructured data using Elasticsearch Understand how a search engine works and the concepts of relevance and scoring Find out how to query Elasticsearch with a high degree of performance and scalability Improve the user experience by using autocomplete, geolocation queries, and much more See how to slice and dice your data using Elasticsearch aggregations. Grasp how to use Kibana to explore and visualize your data Know how to host on Elastic Cloud and how to use the latest X-Pack features such as Graph and Alerting In Detail Elasticsearch is a modern, fast, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant, and open source search and analytics engine. You can use Elasticsearch for small or large applications with billions of documents. It is built to scale horizontally and can handle both structured and unstructured data. Packed with easy-to- follow examples, this book will ensure you will have a firm understanding of the basics of Elasticsearch and know how to utilize its capabilities efficiently. You will install and set up Elasticsearch and Kibana, and handle documents using the Distributed Document Store. You will see how to query, search, and index your data, and perform aggregation-based analytics with ease. You will see how to use Kibana to explore and visualize your data. Further on, you will learn to handle document relationships, work with geospatial data, and much more, with this easy-to-follow guide. Finally, you will see how you can set up and scale your Elasticsearch clusters in production environments. Style and approach This comprehensive guide will get you started with Elasticsearch 5.x, so you build a solid understanding of the basics. Every topic is explained in depth and is supplemented with practical examples to enhance your understanding.

Download or read book Guide to Math Materials written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-02-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now it's easy to locate the materials you need to implement the new NCTM math standards. Organized by such math topics as problem solving, estimation, number sense and numeration, and geometry and spatial relationships, this book shows users where to find manipulatives and materials, such as attribute blocks, pattern blocks, clocks, scales, multilink cubes and prisms, calculators, and sorting toys. It also lists specialized math books, computer software, and a host of other learning materials (e.g., activity cards, puzzles, posters, games, reproducibles). The author briefly describes each product, cites grade level when given, and explains possible applications. Products of exceptional quality and value are highlighted, and the addresses of publishers and suppliers are given. A real time-saver! Grades K-4.

Download or read book Developing Arts Loving Readers written by Nan McDonald and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Arts Loving Readers is based on the premise that children can and do learn a great deal about the arts and their own abilities innately. Involvement and immersion author Nan. L. McDonald argues, are the ways in which children may feel welcome to write, move, create, draw, and otherwise express ideas about art and music directly. Teaching suggestions are offered to classroom teachers and other non-specialists, so that classroom-reading activities may be extended into group discussions, co-operative learning-arts projects, and creative performances. Appended are extensive resource lists for further integrated arts teaching in the classroom.

Download or read book Research in Shape Modeling written by Kathryn Leonard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new edited volume on shape analysis presenting results in shape modeling and computational geometry from the 2013 Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) symposium held at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM). In-depth discussion of shape modeling techniques is supplemented by full-color illustrations demonstrating the results of workshop-developed shape modeling algorithms. It will be the first volume in Springer's AWM series.

Download or read book The Impact of Learning to Read on Visual Processing written by Tânia Fernandes and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is at the interface between the vision and spoken language domains. An emergent bulk of research indicates that learning to read strongly impacts on non-linguistic visual object processing, both at the behavioral level (e.g., on mirror image processing – enantiomorphy) and at the brain level (e.g., inducing top-down effects as well as neural competition effects). Yet, many questions regarding the exact nature, locus, and consequences of these effects remain hitherto unanswered. The current Special Topic aims at contributing to the understanding of how such a cultural activity as reading might modulate visual processing by providing a landmark forum in which researchers define the state of the art and future directions on this issue. We thus welcome reviews of current work, original research, and opinion articles that focus on the impact of literacy on the cognitive and/or brain visual processes. In addition to studies directly focusing on this topic, we will consider as highly relevant evidence on reading and visual processes in typical and atypical development, including in adult people differing in schooling and literacy, as well as in neuropsychological cases (e.g., developmental dyslexia). We also encourage researchers on nonhuman primate visual processing to consider the potential contribution of their studies to this Special Topic.

Download or read book Visual Dance written by Joen Wolfrom and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting journey into the world of design, The Visual Dance is a presentation of nature's design basics to help you build a foundation for your own style. This inspiring book clearly explains the how-tos of design for quilters and artists alike. Gallery of spectacular quilts, hundreds of detailed drawings, and 11 of Joen's original designs illuminate the discussion. Exercises guide you in understanding and using the design principles.

Download or read book Academic Achievement Assessment written by Huisheng Tian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of introduction to academic achievement assessment, international comparison of academic achievement assessment and reference, as well as theoretical system and practice strategy of academic achievement assessment. The study indicates that the development trends of foreign academic achievement assessment are: establishing a complete education quality monitoring system; paying more attention to the function and value of independent education quality monitoring institution and intermediary organization; the orientation based on the integrated development of students growing more apparent; marching from “evaluation of study” to “evaluation for study”; and placing educational equity in a prominent position. This book is easy to understand and readable for professionals like teachers, educational researchers and particularly those engaged in academic achievement.

Download or read book Visualizing with CAD written by Daniela Bertol and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I spent the first twenty six years of my life in Rome. I used to go for ice cream to a popular place near the Pantheon and I remem ber the excitement I felt, beyond the chocolate and whipped cream, when I entered this ancient Roman temple. After staring at the "shower" of light coming from the circular opening at the center of the dome, as strong as a spotlight, I remember being attracted almost hypnotically to the place below the opening. I remember counting the coffers carving the concave dome, com posed in five rows of circular arrays, and could feel the power and protection created by the concave space. I also recall going every Sunday to Piazza San Pietro. This Baroque square is well known for its colonnades, which have an oval shape defined by two interlocking circles. For each of these circles there is a mark, located approximately at its center, from which the four aligned rows of columns appear as one. Before entering the church, almost as a part of a ritual, I had to find the mark in the pavement of the oval square. I was amazed by how the rows of columns could appear and disappear according to my position in relation to the mark:.

Download or read book 2024 25 CTET TET Class 1 to V Mathematics Solved Papers written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2024-25 CTET/TET Class 1 to V Mathematics Solved Papers 864 1495 E. This book contains 173 sets of the previous year’s papers and 5190 objective questions.