Brooks, Michael
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BROFaust, Daniel R.
Summary: From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 FAUSummary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONESummary: Encourages the development of number concepts, from basic counting to multiplication and division, through manipulation of cubes of 10 different colors, which can be snapped together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Didax, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Cares Kits, Call number: CARES KIT 14Summary: Practice and reinforce important skills in a variety of ways. Includes 53 double-sided cards. Adding whole numbers, 0-10 adding single-digit and double-digit numbers adding numbers horizontally and vertically.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teacher Created Resources 2018
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 153Summary: Practice and reinforce important skills in a variety of ways.Includes 53 double-sided cards. Multiplying whole numbers, 0-10 multiplying single-digit and double-digit numbers multiplying numbers horizontally and vertically.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teacher Created Resources 2017
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 155Summary: Practice and reinforce important skills in a variety of ways. Includes 53 double-sided cards. Dividing whole numbers with quotients between 0 and 10 dividing single-digit numbers from double-digit numbers dividing numbers using two different division symbols.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teacher Created Resources 2017
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 156Summary: Practice and reinforce important skills in a variety of ways.Includes 53 double-sided cards. Subtracting whole numbers, 0-14 subtracting single-digit and double-digit numbers subtracting numbers horizontally and vertically.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teacher Created Resources 2018
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 154-AFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "You may like chocolate, but how would you feel about using cocoa beans as money or in glue? Maybe you'd like to play a ball game for warriors (just be careful you don't become a scarified to the gods after playing). What about living life with a calendar system even more advanced than our own? You could try it all if you lived like the Maya! Discover extreme facts about the Maya civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.81 FINHacker, Andrew.
Summary: "Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HACSummary: Teach your child valuable money skills with the Learning Resources Money Bags Board Game. This exciting game lets players collect, count and exchange money all the way to the finish line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: Teach Game MoneyBailey, Linda
Summary: "In this third book in the Time Travel Guides series, the three Binkerton siblings go back in time to 1st century CE China! Amid the chaos of their arrival, little Libby slips away, hitching a ride to the capital city. Soon she is dining with nobility and rubbing elbows with the emperor himself! The twins, Josh and Emma, on the other hand, are mistaken for barbarian spies and are pursued...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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Summary: "A book for middle and high school students about the history and culture of the South American nation Guyana."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 988.1 JERSummary: Makes multiplication and division fun and easy. Learn basic multiplication and division through fact families. With fun characters, level 1 will teach how to easily recall basic multiplication & division math facts from 0x0 to 3x12.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Me Math x/÷ Level 1Summary: In this program, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores mathematical milestones of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece. Topics include Egypt's unusual method of multiplication and division, as well as Egyptians' understanding of binary numbers, fractions, and solids such as the pyramid; Babylon's base-60 number system - the foundation of minutes and hours - and Babylonians' use of quadratic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling and even offer companionship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The School of Life 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J304.2 SCHSummary: See how the Germanic tribes lived, fought and worshipped their gods. Intricate 3D animation shows how they built their settlements, buried their kings, vanquished their enemies. Roman cities such as the ancient Cologne, home of the Romanophile Germans, and the Roman limes, the border to free Germania, are also reconstructed through computer graphics and full-cast reenactments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GEREllenberg, Jordan
Summary: "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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 510 ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ELLBeiser, Vince
Summary: The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world -- sand -- and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other -- even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620.1 BEISummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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Mills, Andrea
Summary: "Every country profile is packed with photos, and each nation has a full-color map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world it is. At-a-glance panels provide a quick reference to all the stats, and the easy-to-read text is full of fascinating, fun facts."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: Provides parents with strategies and tips for helping their fifth grade student prepare for the Common Core assessment, offering easy-to-follow lessons, practice questions, and mini-quizzes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan Publishing 2014