Author: Chip Heath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165456
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Making Numbers Count
Author: Chip Heath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165456
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165456
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Count on Us
Author: Michael Shoulders
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585361311
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fun colorful, and superbly informative book teaches children about numbers using recognizable places, events, and facts from the state of Tennessee.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585361311
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fun colorful, and superbly informative book teaches children about numbers using recognizable places, events, and facts from the state of Tennessee.
Quack and Count
Author: Keith Baker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152050252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152050252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.
Make it Count
Author: Kelly Norris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980754827
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This book is based around a counting trajectory that begins with the pre-requisites for counting right through to mental strategies for adding single-digit numbers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980754827
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This book is based around a counting trajectory that begins with the pre-requisites for counting right through to mental strategies for adding single-digit numbers.
Make It Count
Author: Jake Oergel
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781726770682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In Make It Count, author Dr. Jake Oergel dives deep into tools, tactics, paradigms and metrics on how to live life with purpose. Make It Count means to chase everyday with gratitude towards knowing both time and life are not guaranteed. Dr. Jake helps readers discover ways to live with meaning earlier in life instead of wasting time. Cementing your legacy is important now more than ever! In this powerful, purposeful, eye-opening book you'll discover how to: realize life happens for you and not to you, caring for others enhances success for everyone involved, learn to live your life within the bookends of time, create your list of non-negotiables for foundational strength, change your outlook from cloudy to sunny and learn the mastery of listening. Make It Count provides a toolkit of life learned principles which used together or individually help you live your life with purpose. Dr. Jake brings 24 inspirational, driven individuals into his book. Each person provides a playbook as to what has made them succeed in life. These individuals range from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, cancer survivors, industry leaders and every day people whose main mission is to live the best life they can. Join Dr. Jake on the journey towards Making It Count!Dr. Jake has been a competitive Ironman triathlete for the past 20 years. His main focus while competing was always to push the edge of what is possible within the human body and mind. Outside of endurance sports Dr. Jake has treated thousands of patients as a chiropractor, had a successful career in professional sports and coached numerous athletes to personal success. His true love will always be the life lessons learned from his kids and the ability to wake up each day and help as many people as he can find their Make It Count!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781726770682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In Make It Count, author Dr. Jake Oergel dives deep into tools, tactics, paradigms and metrics on how to live life with purpose. Make It Count means to chase everyday with gratitude towards knowing both time and life are not guaranteed. Dr. Jake helps readers discover ways to live with meaning earlier in life instead of wasting time. Cementing your legacy is important now more than ever! In this powerful, purposeful, eye-opening book you'll discover how to: realize life happens for you and not to you, caring for others enhances success for everyone involved, learn to live your life within the bookends of time, create your list of non-negotiables for foundational strength, change your outlook from cloudy to sunny and learn the mastery of listening. Make It Count provides a toolkit of life learned principles which used together or individually help you live your life with purpose. Dr. Jake brings 24 inspirational, driven individuals into his book. Each person provides a playbook as to what has made them succeed in life. These individuals range from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, cancer survivors, industry leaders and every day people whose main mission is to live the best life they can. Join Dr. Jake on the journey towards Making It Count!Dr. Jake has been a competitive Ironman triathlete for the past 20 years. His main focus while competing was always to push the edge of what is possible within the human body and mind. Outside of endurance sports Dr. Jake has treated thousands of patients as a chiropractor, had a successful career in professional sports and coached numerous athletes to personal success. His true love will always be the life lessons learned from his kids and the ability to wake up each day and help as many people as he can find their Make It Count!
Make It Count
Author: Megan Erickson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006235339X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Kat Caruso wishes her brain had a return policy, or at least a complaint hotline. The defective organ is constantly distracted, terrible at statistics, and absolutely flooded with inappropriate thoughts about her boyfriend's gorgeous best friend, Alec . . . who just so happens to be her brand-new math tutor. Who knew nerds could be so hot? Kat usually goes through tutors like she does boyfriends—both always seem to bail when they realize how hopeless she is. It's safer for her heart to keep everyone at arm's length. But Alec is always stepping just a little too close. Alec Stone should not be fantasizing about Kat. She's adorable, unbelievably witty, and completely off-limits. He'd never stab his best friend in the back . . . But when secrets are revealed, the lines of loyalty are blurred. To make it count, Alec must learn that messy human emotions can't be solved like a trigonometry function. And Kat has to trust that he may be the first guy to want her for who she is, and not in spite of it.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006235339X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Kat Caruso wishes her brain had a return policy, or at least a complaint hotline. The defective organ is constantly distracted, terrible at statistics, and absolutely flooded with inappropriate thoughts about her boyfriend's gorgeous best friend, Alec . . . who just so happens to be her brand-new math tutor. Who knew nerds could be so hot? Kat usually goes through tutors like she does boyfriends—both always seem to bail when they realize how hopeless she is. It's safer for her heart to keep everyone at arm's length. But Alec is always stepping just a little too close. Alec Stone should not be fantasizing about Kat. She's adorable, unbelievably witty, and completely off-limits. He'd never stab his best friend in the back . . . But when secrets are revealed, the lines of loyalty are blurred. To make it count, Alec must learn that messy human emotions can't be solved like a trigonometry function. And Kat has to trust that he may be the first guy to want her for who she is, and not in spite of it.
Make Every Day Count - Teen Edition
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 140031822X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Teens really do want to make a difference, but sometimes their attitudes get in the way! Today's teens are faced with some big issues, and their attitudes can sometimes create even more struggles for their own lives and those around them. But best-selling author Max Lucado wants to teach teens that life is a gift and that gratitude is critical. With a little perspective, teens will see that God can help them overcome their ungrateful days, their stressed-out days, and even their catastrophic days. Life is not going to be perfect. When teens understand that and realize that God is their constant source of support, help, and blessings, even the difficult days can be faced with a cheerful spirit. Make Every Day Count shows readers how to deal with each day-no matter what it throws at them. Real-life teen stories, biblical accounts, and inspiring "Daylifters" encourage teens to make each day count for God. A study guide at the back of the book makes this a perfect choice for individual or group study.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 140031822X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Teens really do want to make a difference, but sometimes their attitudes get in the way! Today's teens are faced with some big issues, and their attitudes can sometimes create even more struggles for their own lives and those around them. But best-selling author Max Lucado wants to teach teens that life is a gift and that gratitude is critical. With a little perspective, teens will see that God can help them overcome their ungrateful days, their stressed-out days, and even their catastrophic days. Life is not going to be perfect. When teens understand that and realize that God is their constant source of support, help, and blessings, even the difficult days can be faced with a cheerful spirit. Make Every Day Count shows readers how to deal with each day-no matter what it throws at them. Real-life teen stories, biblical accounts, and inspiring "Daylifters" encourage teens to make each day count for God. A study guide at the back of the book makes this a perfect choice for individual or group study.
Make Your Contacts Count
Author: Anne Baber
Publisher: AMACOM
ISBN: 0814429769
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Make Your Contacts Count is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking relationships and opportunities. Packed with valuable tools, the book offers a field-tested "Hello to Goodbye" system that takes readers from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up. Updated from its first edition, the book now includes expanded advice on building social capital at work and in job hunting, as well as new case studies, examples, checklists, and questionnaires. Readers will discover how to: * draft a networking plan * cultivate current contacts * make the most of memberships * effectively exchange business cards * avoid the top ten networking turn-offs * share anecdotes that convey character and competence * transform their careers with a networking makeover Job-seekers, career-changers, entrepreneurs, and others will find all the networking help they need to supercharge their careers and boost their bottom lines.
Publisher: AMACOM
ISBN: 0814429769
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Make Your Contacts Count is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking relationships and opportunities. Packed with valuable tools, the book offers a field-tested "Hello to Goodbye" system that takes readers from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up. Updated from its first edition, the book now includes expanded advice on building social capital at work and in job hunting, as well as new case studies, examples, checklists, and questionnaires. Readers will discover how to: * draft a networking plan * cultivate current contacts * make the most of memberships * effectively exchange business cards * avoid the top ten networking turn-offs * share anecdotes that convey character and competence * transform their careers with a networking makeover Job-seekers, career-changers, entrepreneurs, and others will find all the networking help they need to supercharge their careers and boost their bottom lines.
Count Us In
Author: Gareth Ffowc Roberts
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783167971
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Main message is that maths is something to enjoy, not something to fear, encouraging the release of deeply rooted maths-linked anxieties. Emphasises that maths is something to be understood, not something to be repeated poly-parrot-fashion, therefore change of perspective that benefits individuals, their children and their grandchildren. Maths is something for all, recognises maths as a natural part of culture.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783167971
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Main message is that maths is something to enjoy, not something to fear, encouraging the release of deeply rooted maths-linked anxieties. Emphasises that maths is something to be understood, not something to be repeated poly-parrot-fashion, therefore change of perspective that benefits individuals, their children and their grandchildren. Maths is something for all, recognises maths as a natural part of culture.
Let's All Make the Day Count
Author: Charlie Daniels
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400315174
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Beloved American icon and Grammy Award–winning musician Charlie Daniels shares wit, wisdom, and life lessons he has learned from traveling and playing across the country. Let's All Make the Day Count imparts Charlie’s positive attitude, timeless insight, and powerful spirit, and it will encourage and inspire you to make your day count. Learn how you can make your day count from the encouraging and inspiring Charlie Daniels. Charlie has written a song for Elvis, played on a Bob Dylan album, toured the country for decades, and delighted fans around the world with his fiddle playing and signature hit song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." More important, he’s dedicated his life to helping others, including children, troubled teens, and veterans. Join Charlie as he shares many of the things he has learned over the years and be encouraged and empowered by his new book, Let's All Make the Day Count. The book includes 100 readings with Bible verses and clever and pithy "Let's All Make the Day Count" statements. Charlie will inspire you with his positive attitude, timeless wisdom, and powerful spirit. Let's All Make the Day Count imparts Charlie’s positive attitude, timeless insight, and powerful spirit, and it will encourage and inspire you to make your day count.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400315174
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Beloved American icon and Grammy Award–winning musician Charlie Daniels shares wit, wisdom, and life lessons he has learned from traveling and playing across the country. Let's All Make the Day Count imparts Charlie’s positive attitude, timeless insight, and powerful spirit, and it will encourage and inspire you to make your day count. Learn how you can make your day count from the encouraging and inspiring Charlie Daniels. Charlie has written a song for Elvis, played on a Bob Dylan album, toured the country for decades, and delighted fans around the world with his fiddle playing and signature hit song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." More important, he’s dedicated his life to helping others, including children, troubled teens, and veterans. Join Charlie as he shares many of the things he has learned over the years and be encouraged and empowered by his new book, Let's All Make the Day Count. The book includes 100 readings with Bible verses and clever and pithy "Let's All Make the Day Count" statements. Charlie will inspire you with his positive attitude, timeless wisdom, and powerful spirit. Let's All Make the Day Count imparts Charlie’s positive attitude, timeless insight, and powerful spirit, and it will encourage and inspire you to make your day count.