mathematics

A guide to making math exciting that suggests methods and activities for learning the basics by exploring shapes, discovering patterns and rhythms, and creating and playing with games and codes.

Mathnet detectives George Frankly and Pat Tuesday use various math skills--triangulation, calculating currents, and figuring falling speeds--to solve the mystery of the missing Disaster Diamond.

In danger of flunking sixth grade because of math, Erin takes a job in a deli where she is told to help with the bookkeeping.

A history of mathematics, discussing where numbers come from, special numbers and sequences, early geometry, the birth of algebra, and other related topics.

Contains a number of strategies that emphasizes the importance of language in the learning of math and includes methods of problem-solving and creating mathematics poetry.

A comprehensive guide to preparing for the SAT math exam that contains five practice SAT math tests with answers and explanations, practice problems and solutions, and tips for using a calculator on the test.

Examines attempts by mathematicians from throughout history to understand numbers, covering early ideas about numbers and counting, patterns, logic, numerology, the computer, the Enigma Code, and other topics.

Chronicles developments in mathematics between 1900 and 1950 through profiles of major figures including David Hilbert, Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, John von Neumann, Alan Turing, and six others, describing their lives and discoveries.

While grieving the death of her grandmother in 1959, teenager Anna is torn between her aspirations to study math in college and her family's expectations that she will marry and become a homemaker after high school.

Traces the history of mathematics, focusing on the role of so-called pure math in the applied sciences, and includes an index, chronology, glossary, and resources for further study.