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3) The joy of mathematics: marvels, novelties, and neglected gems that are rarely taught in math class
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Wouldn't it be great if all school teachers (from kindergarten through high school) would share the joy of mathematics with their students, rather than focus only on the prescribed curriculum that will subsequently be tested? This book reveals some of the wonders of mathematics that are often missing from classrooms. Here's your chance to catch up with the math gems you may have missed. Using jargon-free language and many illustrations, the authors-all...
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Learning about fractions isn't always easy, but who says it can't be fun? Using one very entertaining cow, math teacher Taryn Souders has devised a very clever (and fun) way of explaining fractions to beginning learners. One whole cow, calmly eating hay, decided to act differently on this particular day. One whole cow - what should we do? I know! Let's paint one half blue! Prompted by a poem and a visual clue, students are asked to answer what fraction...
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A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study.
"Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive....
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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers -- for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.
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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.
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xx, 736 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"Written by one of the world's leading origami artists, [this book] describes the underlying principles and mathematics of the exciting field of geometric origami, most notably the field of origami tessellations. It contains design algorithms, folding instructions, and extensive discussion of the underlying mathematical principles and concepts, as well as many beautiful photos of the latest work from world masters in this fast-expanding field. Robert...
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xxii, 1093 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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An illustrated exploration of mathematics and its history, beginning with a study of numbers and their symbols, and continuing with a broad survey that includes consideration of algebra, geometry, hyperbolic functions, fractals, and many other mathematical functions.
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99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Math can show up in the most unlikely places! When the schools in Jeremys town ban math, all the kids cheer, all except his friend Sam, a self-proclaimed mathnik, who sets out to prove that math is not only important, but fun. Running parallel to the fictional narrative are informative sidebars that discuss the weird, puzzling, and amusing aspects of mathematics. Some topics covered are math in nature, art, music, magic and tricks, crime solving,...
20) Mathematics 1001: absolutely everything that matters in mathematics, in 1001 bite-sized explanations
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415 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Provides a practical reference to all aspects of mathematics, using clear explanations of such key mathematical concepts as analysis, logic, metamathematics, and mathematical physics.
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