Math and Nonfiction, Grades 6-8 is an invaluable resource for all middle school teachers as they work to develop their students' mathematical understanding and enjoyment. The lessons inspire students to collect and analyze data, use proportional reasoning, and explore probability, relationships between two- and three-dimensional objects, pi, and more.
Now even more indispensable in our data-driven world than it was when first published, How to Lie with Statistics is the book that generations of readers have relied on to keep from being fooled.
Boo! There is a mystery behind every door of the creepy haunted house.
Children's books provide an authentic context for using mathematics. They celebrate mathematics as a language for describing and framing our world. And they are also a nonthreatening vehicle for investigating...
Then I'm Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things (and people) that use math in amazing ways -- like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies!
With these puzzles and activities, discover how fun math can be and how important it is to human endeavor.
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” “Fun, informative, and relentlessly ...
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T-Math, a dinosaur, introduces such mathematical concepts as addition, multiplication, counting, and estimations, with examples of adding a herd of triceratops, multiplying the legs of ankylosaurs, and estimating the distance across a gulch ...
For use in schools and libraries only. From genius designs to deadly design-flaws, the story of engineering is full of oddities and surprises.
This series introduces young, inquisitive readers to a broad range of science and social studies topics while building and strengthening their content-area vocabulary.