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Examines the importance of good math skills in veterinarian medicine and uses that format in the understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams.

Examines how to solve crimes by using math and shows how math provides information on crime scene investigations and gathering evidence, interviewing suspects and witnesses, and analyzing clues such as footprints, blood and hair samples, and fingerprints.

Explains how a Formula One racing driver uses math to help plan a strategy for winning a race and uses this format to assist students in understanding numbers, shapes, measurements, charts, and diagrams.

Examines the importance of math in the performance of extreme sports such as snowboarding and in-line skating, and uses that format to foster an understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams.

Examines the importance of math in the conduct of space missions, and uses that format to foster an understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams.

Examines the importance of math in building skyscrapers, and uses that format to foster an understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams. Includes data-gathering and problem-solving exercises.

Examines the importance of math for workers and patients in the emergency room, and uses that format to foster an understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams. Includes data-gathering and problem-solving exercises.

Examines the importance of math in wilderness survival, and uses that format to foster an understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams. Includes data-gathering and problem-solving exercises.

Traces the centuries-long history of the quest to prove the mathematical equation known as Fermat's Last Theorem.

Explains the steps and approaches to information literacy, discussing how students can learn to access, evaluate, organize, and use information in the classroom.