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3201) Measure It!
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This captivating book uses an animal theme to engage students in learning about the concept of measuring weight, size, or even time. It also introduces the concept of measuring inches and centimeters.
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This brightly illustrated nonfiction book teaches students how to count coins and the basics of financial literacy. It uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject-area content, and combines math and reading skills. The dynamic images, detailed sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning financial literacy easy and fun. Text features include a table of contents, a glossary, an index, and captions to build vocabulary...
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More than a study of shapes and angles, geometry reflects an amalgamation of discoveries over time. This book not only provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of geometric shapes, axioms, and formulas, it presents the field's brilliant minds-from Euclid to Wendelin Werner and many in between-whose works reflect a progression of mathematical thought throughout the centuries and have helped produce the various branches of geometry as they...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" "Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers" George G. Szpiro, PhD, is a mathematician and journalist. He covers Israel and the Middle East for the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, for which he also writes an award-winning monthly column on mathematics. His books include Poincaré's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's...
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You've just received a new survey of study results, and you need to quickly create custom graphical views of the data. Or, you've completed your analysis, and you need graphs to present the results to your audience, in the style that they prefer. Now, you can create custom graphs quickly and easily with Getting Started with the Graph Template Language in SAS, without having to understand all of the Graph Template Language (GTL) features first. This...
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John J. Watkins is professor emeritus of mathematics at Colorado College. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of Topics in Commutative Ring Theory (Princeton) and coauthor of Graphs: An Introductory Approach.
Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems. It is not simply about chess but the chessboard itself--that simple grid of squares so common to games around the world. And, more importantly, the fascinating mathematics...
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Thoroughly updated for SAS 9, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition, addresses tasks that nearly every SAS programmer needs to do - that is, make sure that data errors are located and corrected. Written in Ron Cody's signature informal, tutorial style, this book develops and demonstrates data cleaning programs and macros that you can use as written or modify for your own special data cleaning needs. Each topic is developed through...
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This tutorial for data analysts new to SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner provides valuable experience using powerful statistical software to complete the kinds of business analytics common to most industries. Today's businesses increasingly use data to drive decisions that keep them competitive. Especially with the influx of big data, the importance of data analysis to improve every dimension of business cannot be overstated. Data analysts...
3211) We Are the Shapes
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Featuring charmingly simple illustrations and plenty of puns, We Are the Shapes is a humorous trade picture book from up-and-coming author/illustrator Kevin Jenner. Introducing squares, triangles, and circles alongside light-hearted humor, this is a truly fun introduction to shapes.
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Revealing the Strategic Secrets Behind Your Daily Choices In the enthralling exploration of "How Game Theory Shapes Your Everyday Decisions," we embark on a riveting journey through the labyrinth of human choices, offering you a profound understanding of the invisible forces guiding your life. Game theory, often shrouded in mathematical complexity and strategic theory, unveils itself as a universal language, explaining the motivations, the strategies,...
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This quiz book asks questions on a diverse range of subjects including math, anatomy, geography and history. Your child will love the challenge each topic presents. You probably might not even know the answers to all these questions so using this quiz book on games will be a wonderful idea.
3215) Space Exploration
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Grab your space suit and get ready to use math to explore space!
3... 2... 1... blast off! Space scientists use math every day to explore our universe. Join a real astronomer on an amazing adventure to COUNT the planets, MEASURE the stars, ADD on the space station, and more. Then test your math skills with special You Can Do It challenges. This brand-new series demonstrates how math skills can be, applied to high-interest topics and careers in Coding,...
3216) Digging for Dinosaurs
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Do you want to be an astronaut, a zookeeper, a firefighter, or maybe a paleontologist digging for dinosaurs? Well you need to use math to do these and other amazing jobs. Follow an imaginary working day with 50 simple math puzzles and activities as these people go through their daily work. Included are tips to help improve math skills, as well as full answers to all of the puzzles and activities. Addition, subtraction, measuring, and sorting are all...
3217) Mission JavaScript
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Introduce readers to JavaScript, a programming language that makes websites interactive. It lets us use search boxes, watch online videos, and more!
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John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now leads us through the pages of the daily newspaper, revealing...
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