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Activity programs in education Early childhood education Activity programs Educational games Games in mathematics education Mathematical analysis Mathematical recreations Mathematics Mathematics Juvenile literature Mathematics Miscellanea Mathematics Study and teaching (Elementary)Ellenberg, 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 510 ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ELLThorp, Edward O.
Summary: Traces the author's experiences as a mathematics wizard, author, inventor, hedge-fund manager, and card-counter who revealed casino-beating strategies, invented the first wearable computer, and launched a Wall Street revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THORP, EDWARD O. THOOxley, Jennifer
Summary: Aspiring to build an amazing derby car out of junkyard parts, Peg and Cat enter the neighborhood Tallapegga Twenty and use their shape-recognition and counting skills to assemble their car and count laps in the hope of winning the Golden Cup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2015
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Summary: Nature's repeating patterns, better known as fractals, are beautiful, universal, and explain much about how things grow. Fractals can also be quantified mathematically. Here is an elegant introduction to fractals through examples that can be seen in parks, rivers, and our very own backyards. Readers will be fascinated to learn that broccoli florets are fractals just like mountain ranges, river...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 516 CAMDu Sautoy, Marcus
Summary: "Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: Introduces readers to the basic features of a graph, such as legends, labels, and scales. Readers will learn how to use these features to read bar graphs, line graphs, and many other kinds of graphs. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, labeled diagrams, a quiz and answer key, a phonetic glossary, an index, sources for further research, and an introduction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 511 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J005.118 CWSummary: 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 155Overdeck, Laura
Summary: Over 100 kid-friendly story math problems on topics from jalapeños and submarines to roller coasters and flamingos, designed to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 513 OVESummary: 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-ASummary: 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 156Maddox, Jake
Summary: "Tobias Wilson has a secret. For the past two years, since attending a Choctaw Nation powwow with his family, he's been teaching himself how to hoop dance. But when his best buddy Declan discovers him dancing, it isn't long before his whole class knows. Once the secret is out, Tobias has the opportunity to share his dancing at the spring talent show, but he's not sure he wants that. Is he ready...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADSummary: Frances Fraction, Newman Numerator, and Dennis Denominator invite kids on a colorful adventure to explore fractions and decimals. Entertaining music, easy-to-follow examples, and plenty of humor make even difficult concepts easy to grasp. Delayed answers give learners time to respond and check their understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rock 'N Learn 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ROCHacker, 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 HACOverdeck, Laura
Summary: Over 100 kid-friendly story math problems on topics from jalapeños and submarines to roller coasters and flamingos, designed to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 513 OVECrespo, Ana
Summary: "When Brazilian American twins Lia and Luís receive a jigsaw puzzle from their grandmother, they must quickly solve it to figure out its secret message."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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Summary: No policing tactic has been more controversial than "stop and frisk," whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis of this tactic, there is a disconnect between our everyday understanding and the historical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 WHISummary: 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
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: Teach Game MoneySummary: Möbi is a fast-paced math game that encourages children and adults to play with and love numbers. Players use their number tiles to make simple mathematical equations and connect them in crossword style grids. Be the first to connect all your tiles and you win!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Möbi Games 2016
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Summary: "Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 FRECheng, Eugenia
Summary: "X and Y are desperate to bake infinite pie! With the help of quirky and uber-smart Aunt Z, X and Y will use math concepts to bake their way to success!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 510 CHEMiller, Shannon (Shannon McClintock)
Summary: "When you have a problem, where can you go for answers? The library! When Codie and her friends join Ms. Gillian, the Specialist, on another Adventure in Makerspace, they find themselves face-to-face with dinosaurs! Are they stuck in a prehistoric world? Join them to complete A Stop-Motion Animation Mission!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MILArtist Not Provided
Summary: Eight-year-old AJ and his monster truck, Blaze, go on a series of adventures solving problems involving science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2017