Download or read book Math Advantage written by Grace M. Burton and published by Hmh School. This book was released on 1998-05-22 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advantage Math Grade K written by Creative Teaching Press and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Not to Be Wrong written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: 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 the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.
Download or read book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development 2nd Edition written by Fletcher Dunn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-trenches practical experience, the authors teach you how to describe objects and their positions, orientations, and trajectories in 3D using mathematics. The text provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including the fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices. It also covers orientation in three dimensions, calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves.
Download or read book Math Advantage written by Harcourt School Publishers Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Human Advantage written by Suzana Herculano-Houzel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking. Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals, but not because we are evolutionary outliers. The human brain was not singled out to become amazing in its own exclusive way, and it never stopped being a primate brain. If we are not an exception to the rules of evolution, then what is the source of the human advantage? Herculano-Houzel shows that it is not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal, thanks to our ancestors' invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking. Because we are primates, ingesting more calories in less time made possible the rapid acquisition of a huge number of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex—the part of the brain responsible for finding patterns, reasoning, developing technology, and passing it on through culture. Herculano-Houzel shows us how she came to these conclusions—making “brain soup” to determine the number of neurons in the brain, for example, and bringing animal brains in a suitcase through customs. The Human Advantage is an engaging and original look at how we became remarkable without ever being special.
Download or read book Math Advantage Grade 4 written by Harcourt School Publishers Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Math Advantage written by Grace M. Burton and published by Hmh School. This book was released on 1999 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public School Advantage written by Christopher A. Lubienski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.
Download or read book Math Advantage written by Harcourt School Publishers Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advantage Math Grade 3 written by Creative Teaching Press and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advantage Math Gr 6 eBook written by Beth Sycamore and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Interest Skill Building for Home and School! Strong skill instruction with 100 easy-to-use activities and tips that help make practice independent. This book also features scaffolded instruction for immediate independent reading ,review pages at the end of each unit that offer mixed-skill practice,"Take a Test Drive" pages that provide test-taking practice ,a fun puzzle at the end of each unit to reward success ,a tracking sheet that gives students a sense of accomplishment.
Download or read book Math Advantage written by Harcourt Brace Publishing and published by Hmh School. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advantage Math Gr 4 eBook written by Barbara Irvin and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Interest Skill Building for Home and School! Strong skill instruction with 100 easy-to-use activities and tips that help make practice independent. This book also features scaffolded instruction for immediate independent reading , review pages at the end of each unit that offer mixed-skill practice , "Take a Test Drive" pages that provide test-taking practice , a fun puzzle at the end of each unit to reward success , a tracking sheet that gives students a sense of accomplishment.
Download or read book Advantage Math Grade 1 written by Creative Teaching Press and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advantage Math Grade 2 written by Dawn Purney and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Productive Math Struggle written by John J. SanGiovanni and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math. This book guides teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing · Actionable steps, activities, and tools for implementation · Instructional tasks representative of each grade level · Real-world examples showcasing classroom photos and student work
