Animal atlas

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781492641636

Collation

91 p. ; ill. ; 30 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

590 ALA a

All about animals

Discover the wonderful word of animals in this interactive and fun-filled book! Little hands will love lifting the flaps to uncover fascinating creatures, from the jungle to the ocean , and the farm to the forest. Each page is filled with colorful illustrations, delightful surprises, and fun facts about animals both big and small. Whether it's a seedy cheetah, a playful dolphin, or a busy bee, …

Bugs & slugs

Parents guide : young children can discover the fascinating world of bugs and slugs with this awesome book. With fun facts, photographs and illustration, this book is the ideal introduction to creepy-crawlies.

The Math of life and death: 7 mathematical principles that shape our lives

In The Math of Life and Death , Yates takes us on a “dizzying, dazzling” ( Nature ) tour of everyday situations and grand-scale applications of mathematical concepts, including exponential growth and decay, optimization, statistics and probability, and number systems. Along the way he reveals the mathematical undersides of controversies over DNA testing, Ponzi schemes, viral marketing, and …

Math & cats: scratching the surface of mathematical concepts

In Math Cats, mathematician and professor Daniel Look, along with a clowder of his feline friends, reveals the charming connections between mathematics and cats with 22 fun and fur-filled lessons. We know all cats are cute, but only some are acute. Others are obtuse (no offense) and more are always right (and never let you forget it), as you'll learn by exploring how kitties represent different…

Math without numbers

The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinites…

Humble pi: when math goes wrong in the real world

Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit c…

The art of statistics: how to learn from data

The age of big data has made statistical literacy more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter shows how to apply statistical reasoning to real-world problems. Whether we're analyzing preventative medical screening or the terrible crime sprees of serial killers, Spiegelhalter teaches us how to clarify questions, assumptions, and expectations and, most importantly, how…

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathe…

Look inside a zoo

Lift the flaps to see the important work that zoos are doing to save the world's wildlife. And find oit what interesting jobs zookeepers have and how they look after the animals in their care.