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"In a time of rampant misinformation about ways of growing your money, Burton G. Malkiel's gimmick-free investment guide is more necessary than ever. Whether you're considering your first 401k contribution or contemplating retirement, the fully updated, fiftieth anniversary edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street remains the best investment guide money can buy. Drawing on his experience as an economist, financial adviser, and successful investor,...
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Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to success
Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler-Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning-has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes....
4) Math curse
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
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Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning the requirement of advanced mathematics in our schools instantly became one of the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict a full menu of mathematics on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? The Math Myth expands Hacker's scrutiny of many widely held assumptions, like the notions that mathematics broadens our minds and that the entire...
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IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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After a prank is pulled putting dangerous chemicals in the fountain at Stacy's new science magnet school, four friends from Sifu Faiza's Kung Fu School use multiplication and division to help figure out who did it and how.
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The Odd Squad Agent's Handbook is the book every new recruit receives. It's filled with tips and tricks on how to be the best agent possible, plus secrets of the squad and highlights from its greatest adventures. In short, this is the ultimate guide to the strange, the unusual, and very, very ... odd.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Math is everywhere in shopping! See what's for sale inside this book-and how we need math to finish the purchase! You'll need your math smarts to add and subtract prices, figure out percentages with discounts and sales tax, calculate the best deals, stay within a budget, and more. It all adds up to a lot of fun!
15) One Odd Day
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IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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This humorous, rhythmic, read-aloud story is about a young boy who awakens to find that everything around him is odd. He has one shoe, his shirt has three sleeves, and his dog has five legs! Children and adults will delight in finding all the odd things hidden in the art. The "For Creative Minds" section includes odd fun facts, an odd coloring chart a "How Odd?" Oddities section, a Creative Sparks supplement and a counting activity.
16) Singer distance
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"In December 1960, Rick Hayworth drives his genius girlfriend, Crystal, and three other MIT grad students across the country to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades. Crystal thinks she's...
17) Solving for m
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Shortly after starting fifth grade, Mika learns that her mother has cancer and uses her math notebook to explore the new changes in her life.
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In this third book about the four friends -- Conejo (a rabbit), Tortuga (a tortoise), Culebra (a snake) and Iguana -- bilingual counting and vocabulary are the backdrop for a humorous tale. When Conejo can't make her cactus butter dulces because she stubbed her toe, Culebra devises a very loud and ingenious plan to help her forget her pain and get all the friends involved in making the candy. A glossary, pronunciation guide and a no-cook recipe are...
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What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard. Of course,...
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