Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Godel-Petros …
From the Back Cover Math Wise! Over 100 Hands-On Activities that Promote Real Math Understanding Grades K-8 Second Edition Many students find math a difficult and abstract subject. To compound the problem, teachers who are pressured to focus on meeting math standards all too often find themselves teaching to the test, leaving little time for teaching students how to really understand math…
Welcome to the country fair! You can stop by and find lots of things to count. look to find how many bees in one hive; how many seeds in one pumpkin; how many horses on one merry-go-round. What else can you count?
A Question of Math uses a recurring cast of young, multiethnic characters along with a mathematical creature called Digit to introduce young readers to fundamental math concepts -- including subtraction, division, multiplication, addition, counting, and measuring -- that they can find at school, play, and home. With a clear, straightforward question-and-answer text, lively illustrations, and si…
This innovative title comes with over 70 magnetic number and image tiles for fun, interactive learning. Parents can help children to add, then ‘take away’ items from each scene, then answer the sums by placing magnetic tiles into the answer boxes. In addition to sums, the lively illustrations are aimed at the target age group, with familiar scenes, colors and shapes to encourage further…