mathematics

Chronicles the life and career of Archimedes, a mathematician, scientist and inventor.

Presents real-world problems that provide students in grades four through seven with strategies for developing algebraic thinking, covering variables, basic function tables, basic operations, balanced number sentences, variable isolation, and other topics.

Here is a wide variety of easy-to-teach and easy-to-do activities suitable for kindergartners to 5th graders, from guessing games to songs and chants to hands-on experiments to inspire interest in math and practice skills.

When Alic Butler begins receiving odd messages in a simple code from someone at PopCo, a profit-hungry toy company that has sent Alice and its other top creative minds out to a secluded Thought Camp, she begins to wonder if they are from her missing father or from someone who knows she hold the key to finding a valuable treasure.

Discusses entrepreneurial mathematics, or the harnessing of private data provided by consumers when they use credit cards, donate money, or access the Internet, for the purpose of tailoring marketing and sales efforts toward individuals under the guise of making life easier.