comiscs...we teach the way students learn best. It has always been a challenge for school teachers to teach mathematics to students with different levels of ability.
The quickest possible way to learn about everything from prime numbers to polynomial equations
It's maths like you've never seen it before! Get ready to suss out shapes and untangle angles. Discover the power of polygons, why comets are pretty crazy and how to make sure you'll always get your fair share of cake - it's time to get shapes sorted.
Packed with educational goodness to help you grow and learn. Do you love circle and squares or making patterns? This book will help you tak about sorting. Get ready to meet some maths words you can use every day.
Stymied by statistics? No fear? this friendly guide offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that show you how these concepts apply to your everyday life. Statistics For Dummies shows you how to interpret and critique graphs and charts, determine the odds with probability, guesstimate with confidence using confid…
Mastering the basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is an essential goal for all students. Most educators also agree that success at higher levels of math hinges on this fundamental skill. But what's the best way to get there? Are flash cards, drills, and timed tests the answer? If so, then why do students go into the upper elementary grades (and beyond) still coun…
In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His tools are unorthodox: jokes, cartoons, strange-but-true stories, and beneath it all, the empathy of a veteran teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin helps us to think like mathematicians by teaching a brand-new game of tic-tac-toe, profiling the ten people you meet in line for the lottery, and docu…
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 …
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…