mathematics

Presents mathematical problem-solving skills useful for examinations and contests, including trial and error, searching for patterns, shortcuts, and changing perspective.

Presents simple, step-by-step instructions on how to solve any type of pre-algebra problem, with sample equations, clear explanations of basic concepts, detailed answers, and quizzes to test learning progress.

Explains how the results of mathematical calculations are often manipulated in such fields as advertising, politics, finance, health care, and the media.

Traces the history of tessellation designs that explains what tessellations are, how they were created, and which artists have used them.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce young readers to tessellations.

A collection of simple, instant math activities for in-between times, including counting in the car and finding numbers while fixing dinner.

Presents lessons for grades two and three that teach mathematics through activities related to popular children's books, such as "Little House in the Big Woods" and "One Hundred Hungry Ants.".

Provides a collection of lessons and activities for teaching mathematics using children's literature for kindergarten and first grade and includes blackline masters, references, and index.

A simple introduction to the meaning of numbers and sets as a rooster, on his way to see the world, is joined by fourteen animals along the way.

Contains an introduction to the concept of math, in simple text with photographs, and includes information on measuring, sorting, counting, patterns, shapes, and telling time.