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How Math Works

100 Ways Parents and Kids Can Share the Wonders of Mathematics
1996
Includes sections on: Numbers -- Proportions -- Algebra -- Statistics -- Measurement -- Shape -- Thinking. Mathematics and science, positive and negative numbers, fractions and decimals, estimating, using powers, number bases, series and sequences, ratios, distances, volume, mass and weight, time, speed, angle, lines, triangles, right angles, trigonometry, shapes, cirles, curves, spirals, symmetry, shapes.

Super hockey infographics

Keeping up with all of hockey's cool facts can make your brain freeze. You need to take in long timeframes (the NHL has been around for almost 100 years), big numbers (Wayne Gretzky scored almost 3,000 points in his career), and surprising details (the United States and Canada are the only two countries that have won gold medals in women's hockey at the Olympics). How can all these numbers and ideas make more sense? Infographics!.

Annika Riz, math whiz

Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.

Geekspeak

how life + mathematics = happiness
2008
Graham Tattersall uses his math skills to identify solutions to some of life's great questions, and deciphers the depth of someone's vocabulary, the weight of a house, whether the dead outnumber the living, the best words to use in a personal ad, and more.

Nearly gone

2015
"A math-whiz from a trailer park discovers she's the only student capable of unravelling complex clues left by a serial killer who's systematically getting rid of her classmates."--Provided by publisher.

Pete the cat's got class

2016
When Pete's friend Tom has a tough time with math, Pete has an idea to help him out.

Liz learns a lesson

Liz is horrified to learn that she has to take summer school, but with some time management and help from her friends, she learns that she can still have a fun summer anyway.

Graphing story problems

Introduces graphs, describes the different types, and discusses how to obtain data and use it to create a graph.

SAT math 1 & 2 subject test

maximize your score in less time
2012
A study guide for the SAT mathematics level one and level two subject tests.

An abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton is a washed-up prodigy on a road trip in search of true love. He dates only girls named Katherine and has been dumped by nineteen of them. Now he attempts to prove the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability.

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