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Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2
Chepina Rumsey and Jody Guarino
Building students’ confidence and conceptual understanding early sets a solid foundation for reasoning and exploration. Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2 offers educational tools and strategies teachers can use to integrate mathematical argumentation in early elementary classrooms, allowing space for students’ natural wonder and curiosity to shine while, at the same time, providing opportunities for students to see mathematics content in a new light.
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Squigonometry: The Study of Imperfect Circles
William Wood and Robert D. Poodiack
This textbook introduces generalized trigonometric functions through the exploration of imperfect circles: curves defined by |x|p + |y|p = 1 where p ≥ 1. Grounded in visualization and computations, this accessible, modern perspective encompasses new and old results, casting a fresh light on duality, special functions, geometric curves, and differential equations. Projects and opportunities for research abound, as we explore how similar (or different) the trigonometric and squigonometric worlds might be. Comprised of many short chapters, the book begins with core definitions and techniques. Successive chapters cover inverse squigonometric functions, the many possible re-interpretations of π, two deeper dives into parameterizing the squigonometric functions, and integration. Applications include a celebration of Piet Hein’s work in design. From here, more technical pathways offer further exploration. Topics include infinite series; hyperbolic, exponential, and logarithmic functions; metrics and norms; and lemniscatic and elliptic functions. Illuminating illustrations accompany the text throughout, along with historical anecdotes, engaging exercises, and wry humor.
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Social Nonsense: Creative Diversions for Two or More Players - Anytime, Anywhere
Doug Shaw
This amusing book by Dr. Doug Shaw (American) is the finest in our collection. It consists of a collection of whimsical pastimes that encourage the creation of stories and art. -- provided by the publisher.
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Contemporary Precalculus: A Graphing Approach
Thomas W. Hungerford and Doug Shaw
Respected for its detailed guidance in using technology, CONTEMPORARY PRECALCULUS: A GRAPHING APPROACH, Fifth Edition, is written from the ground up to be used with graphing calculators that you may be using in your precalculus course. You'll appreciate that the text has also long been recognized for its careful, thorough explanations and its presentation of mathematics in an informal yet mathematically precise manner. The authors also emphasize the all-important "why?" of mathematics--which is addressed in both the exposition and in the exercise sets by focusing on algebraic, graphical, and numerical perspectives. -- Provided by publisher
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Mixed Automorphic Forms, Torus Bundles, and Jacobi Forms
Min Ho Lee
This volume deals with various topics around equivariant holomorphic maps of Hermitian symmetric domains and is intended for specialists in number theory and algebraic geometry. In particular, it contains a comprehensive exposition of mixed automorphic forms that has never yet appeared in book form. The main goal is to explore connections among complex torus bundles, mixed automorphic forms, and Jacobi forms associated to an equivariant holomorphic map. Both number-theoretic and algebro-geometric aspects of such connections and related topics are discussed. -- Provided by publisher
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Exploring Mathematics Through Literature: Articles and Lessons for Prekindergarten Through Grade 8
Diane Thiessen
This collection of articles and lessons provides classroom examples of how to use children's literature to teach mathematics effectively in prekindergarten through eighth grade. The articles focus on five content strands number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability and describe how the different authors have used specific books to help their students learn mathematics. Most of the articles involve communication, problem solving, representation, and reasoning, and some of them address connections. Helpful teacher notes indicate the grade range, topic, literature selection featured in the lesson, materials needed, discussion of the mathematics, and questions for students. Blackline masters of recording sheets are also included for most lessons. -- Provided by publisher
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The Game of Science Education
Jeffrey Weld
An accessible and authoritative approach to effective science teaching, this text is the work of 16 contributors who each employ a single metaphor that will resonate with readers-that science education can and should be considered a game of sorts. Because metaphor has been demonstrated to be a potent tool for learning a novel concept in science, the authors use the universality of games and sports to educate teachers about science teaching. Each author has carefully woven a game or sports metaphor into his/her chapter and supplemented it with a quotation pertinent to the theme. Many of this book's contributors were involved in the development and draft review of the National Science Education Standards, and therefore fully appreciate the importance of overtly linking research-based commentary and recommendations to the Standards. -- Provided by publisher
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Learning Through Problems: Number Sense and Computational Strategies
Paul R. Trafton
Learning Through Problems describes a powerful approach to mathematics instruction that honors children's thinking and sense-making ability. Too often, the strands of mathematics (addition, subtraction, place value, and problem solving) are viewed as isolated topics. Paul Trafton and Diane Thiessen weave these strands together and offer a wide variety of contexts for genuine mathematical exploration. While grounded in solid theory, Learning Through Problems is above all a practical resource, based on many years of field testing. The book takes you into classrooms where students value challenges, reflect on their work, and participate in thoughtful discussions with their classmates. Throughout the book, classroom teachers reflect on their experiences and offer suggestions on a comprehensive range of issues, including how to get started, where to find good problems, when to provide help, when to step back, where manipulatives fit in, how to integrate problem solving into the curriculum, and how to assess students' learning. The book also shows how number sense and computation can be learned within a problem-centered framework. Thus, understanding and skills develop as mutually supporting aspects through a single approach. They do not have to be dichotomous. Numerous classroom examples and teacher observations provide guidance in developing both invented and familiar computational approaches. In addition to providing valuable information about the development of children's mathematical thinking, this book is an inspiring look at what students can accomplish when they are given the opportunity, time, and freedom to solve problems in ways that make sense to them. -- Provided by publisher
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The Wonderful World of Mathematics: A Critically Annotated List of Children's Books in Mathematics
Diane Thiessen, Margaret Matthias, and Jacqueline Smith
This annotated list of more than 550 titles analyses each book's content and accuracy, illustrations, style and any included activities. Highlights include a new section titled "Series and Other Resources" to accommodate the large number of books that have been issued in series, as well as a new subsection called "Incidental Geometry-Quilting," which lists books that help students make connections among geometry, history and quilting. -- Provided by Publisher
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Hadronic Mechanics and Nonpotential Interactions : Held at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, August 13-17, 1990
Hyo Chul Myung
This volume contains the papers devoted to physics presented at the Fifth International Conference on [title] which was held at the U. of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, August 1990. Among the topics in 28 Lie-admissible complex time model, coherent nuclear states in a supermanifold, meson-mes
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonassociative Algebraic Models : Held at Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, April, 1989
Hyo Chul Myung and Santos González
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Children's Mathematics Books: A Critical Bibliography
Margaret Matthias and Diane Thiessen
About two hundred children's books dealing with mathematics for the early grades are classified by subject and reviewed for content and accuracy, style, and appropriateness.
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