Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life-from...

Provides simple examples of repeating sequences of shapes, colors, objects, and more, helping readers learn how to find patterns in the world around them.

Using a full-color illustrated approach, a guide to parental math tutoring looks at every aspect of the challenging subject, from simple sums to simultaneous equations, in a book with simple explanations and clear illustrations that parents can share with their children.

Beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. --From publisher description.

Someone has stolen money from the soccer team's car-wash earnings, and the students from Sifu Faiza's Kung Fu School must set aside their feud with the soccer players to figure out how much money was stolen and by whom.

Do you know how to create an algorithm? These cats sure do! Author Brian P. Cleary and illustrator (and coding hobbyist) Martin Goneau offer a fun and accessible introduction to algorithms with the help of the CATegorical cats.

When Leonard starts attending Superhero School he is disappointed to find that all they learn is math, but when the ice zombies strike, Leonard and his classmates put their newly-acquired knowledge to good use.

Contains more than four hundred math definitions that will help students solve many of the math challenges they face. Includes instructions for basic operations and tables of commonly-used facts and equivalents.

Presents a guide to understanding word problems with algebra.

Albert the mouse decides to make a batch of muffins but must borrow more and more ingredients from his friends until his sister, Wanda, helps him learn a lesson about sharing, using the concept of ordinal numbers.