Author: Carol Jvf Burns Publisher: Truth and Language Book in Mat ISBN: 9781982985202 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
Want a fresh start on math? View it in a totally new way? Then read this little book. You'll learn that numbers have lots of different names, and math is the renaming tool. You'll learn that "x" is to math as "cat" is to English. It's an easy read. If you can add, subtract, multiply and divide with numbers like 1, 2, and 3, then you can read this book. Supplement any math class, 7th grade through college. Use for self-learners, home-schoolers, math lovers, math haters. Reviewers and users write: " . . . wonderfully written and crafted with a care you rarely see" " . . . will do a great service to the mathematical educational world" " . . . the need for this book is immense" " . . . I found meat, potatoes, and pie on every page. It's all dessert." " . . . never seen anything so supportive and affirming and reassuring and inspiring as the way you talk us through topics" "THIS IS GREAT!!!! . . . this is helping me get heads above the competition. You rock!!!! One Mathematical Cat drives me wild." An entire website (http: //www.onemathematicalcat.org) grew from this book: Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, Calculus. Free randomly-generated exercises. Free unlimited worksheets. Algebra Pinball. All the same style. All the same voice. All building on the ideas in this little book. Bound, printed copies are great for students: they can highlight, write margin notes, and do exercises right in the book. So, the next time you see "x," maybe you'll think "One Mathematical Cat, Please!" and laugh! Enjoy!
Author: Carol Jvf Burns Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781983069079 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 386
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This is not just another algebra book. An entire website supports and extends this text. 400+ web exercises: unlimited, randomly-generated practice and worksheets. The book and website each stand alone as a learning environment; together, they're a dynamic duo. Visit http: //www.onemathematicalcat.org and go to Algebra I: then Geometry, Algebra II, Precalculus, and Calculus. While you're learning algebra, you'll also learn that numbers have lots of different names, and that math is the renaming tool. You'll learn that "x" is to math as "cat" is to English. The original "cat" book (One Mathematical Cat, Please! Ideas for anyone who wants to understand mathematics) is also available on Amazon. If you only need the math language ideas, get the original "cat" book. If you need Algebra too, get this book. The Algebra book has the original cat book embedded in it, so you don't need both! Reviewers and users write: " ... wonderfully written and crafted with a care you rarely see" " ... will do a great service to the mathematical educational world" " ... the need for this book is immense" " ... I found meat, potatoes, and pie on every page. It's all dessert." " ... never seen anything so supportive and affirming and reassuring and inspiring as the way you talk us through topics" "THIS IS GREAT!!!! ... this is helping me get heads above the competition. You rock!!!! OneMathematicalCat drives me wild." There are over 175 web exercises that go directly with this book at: http: //www.onemathematicalcat.org/algebra_book/online_problems/table_of_contents.htm All free. All agreeing perfectly with the text---same order of lessons, same notation, same writing style. Free randomly-generated exercises. Free unlimited worksheets/quizzes. Algebra Pinball. Never again will someone say they don't have enough practice. Bound, printed copies are great. You can highlight, write margin notes, and do exercises right in the book. So, the next time you see "x," think "One Mathematical Cat, Please!" and laugh! Enjoy!
Author: Carol Jvf Burns Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781724144799 Category : Languages : en Pages : 524
Book Description
The entire book is free, online, at: http: //www.onemathematicalcat.org/Math/Calculus_obj/tableOfContentsCalculus.htm This print version is just a convenience for those of us who like to highlight, write in the margins, and feel the paper between our fingers. There's also a Complete Solution Manual, available in both print and digital versions. It has completely written out answers to all the in-section and end-of-section exercises, and the sample tests. An entire website supports this book: http: //www.onemathematicalcat.org Algebra I and II, Geometry, Precalculus (for when you need to brush up on stuff) Calculus index cards (hold the entire course in the palm of your hand) Please don't hesitate to contact the author, Dr. Carol JVF Burns, with any questions or comments. My email is available from my homepage: http: //www.onemathematicalcat.org
Author: Frank Ayres Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 0071795545 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 1,100 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 30 detailed videos featuring Math instructors who explain how to solve the most commonly tested problems--it's just like having your own virtual tutor! You’ll find everything you need to build confidence, skills, and knowledge for the highest score possible. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum's Outline gives you 1,105 fully solved problems Concise explanations of all calculus concepts Expert tips on using the graphing calculator Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time--and get your best test scores!
Author: Kenn Amdahl Publisher: Clearwater Publishing Company, Incorporated ISBN: 9780962781551 Category : Calculus Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Approximately four thousand years ago, aliens invaded Earth and began implementing a diabolical plan to enslave humanity. These aliens have come to be known as "cats." They had one overwhelmingly superior ability. They understood calculus. And humans did not. The plan has been wildly successful and the proof is obvious: cats rule the world and very few humans understand calculus. Before you decide that calculus is beyond you, consider this: if cats can learn it, so can you.-- Introduction.
Author: Ethan Canin Publisher: Random House ISBN: 081299678X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 588
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the author of America America and The Palace Thief, explores the nature of genius, rivalry, ambition, and love among multiple generations of a gifted family. Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley he realizes the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is a seduction, opening Milo’s eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there—and the rival he meets alongside her—will haunt him for the rest of his life. For Milo’s brilliance is entwined with a dark need that soon grows to threaten his work, his family, even his existence. Spanning seven decades as it moves from California to Princeton to the Midwest to New York, A Doubter’s Almanac tells the story of a family as it explores the way ambition lives alongside destructiveness, obsession alongside torment, love alongside grief. It is a story of how the flame of genius both lights and scorches every generation it touches. Graced by stunning prose and brilliant storytelling, A Doubter’s Almanac is a surprising, suspenseful, and deeply moving novel, a major work by a writer who has been hailed as “the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation.” Praise for A Doubter’s Almanac “551 pages of bliss . . . devastating and wonderful . . . dazzling . . . You come away from the book wanting to reevaluate your choices and your relationships. It’s a rare book that can do that, and it’s a rare joy to discover such a book.”—Esquire “[Canin] is at the top of his form, fluent, immersive, confident. You might not know where he’s taking you, but the characters are so vivid, Hans’s voice rendered so precisely, that it’s impossible not to trust in the story. . . . The delicate networks of emotion and connection that make up a family are illuminated, as if by magic, via his prose.”—Slate “Alternately explosive and deeply interior.”—New York (“Eight Books You Need to Read”) “A blazingly intelligent novel.”—Los Angeles Times “[A] beautifully written novel.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Author: Liping Ma Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135149496 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
Studies of teachers in the U.S. often document insufficient subject matter knowledge in mathematics. Yet, these studies give few examples of the knowledge teachers need to support teaching, particularly the kind of teaching demanded by recent reforms in mathematics education. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics describes the nature and development of the knowledge that elementary teachers need to become accomplished mathematics teachers, and suggests why such knowledge seems more common in China than in the United States, despite the fact that Chinese teachers have less formal education than their U.S. counterparts. The anniversary edition of this bestselling volume includes the original studies that compare U.S and Chinese elementary school teachers’ mathematical understanding and offers a powerful framework for grasping the mathematical content necessary to understand and develop the thinking of school children. Highlighting notable changes in the field and the author’s work, this new edition includes an updated preface, introduction, and key journal articles that frame and contextualize this seminal work.
Author: Sanjoy Mahajan Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262265591 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor and taught them how to use mathematics to solve real problems. Street-Fighting Mathematics will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.
Author: Carol Jvf Burns
Author: Carol Jvf Burns
Author: Carol Jvf Burns
Author: Frank Ayres
Author: Kenn Amdahl
Author: Ethan Canin
Author: Liping Ma
Author: Joseph Antonius Nyberg
Author: I. N. Herstein
Author: Sanjoy Mahajan