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536 Puzzles and Curious Problems
by Martin Gardner Henry E. DudeneyFor two decades, self-taught mathematician Henry E. Dudeney wrote a puzzle page, "Perplexities," for The Strand Magazine. Martin Gardner, longtime editor of Scientific American's mathematical games column, hailed Dudeney as "England's greatest maker of puzzles," unsurpassed in the quantity and quality of his inventions. This compilation of Dudeney's long-inaccessible challenges attests to the puzzle-maker's gift for creating witty and compelling conundrums. This treasury of intriguing puzzles begins with a selection of arithmetical and algebraical problems, including challenges involving money, time, speed, and distance. Geometrical problems follow, along with combinatorial and topological problems that feature magic squares and stars, route and network puzzles, and map coloring puzzles. The collection concludes with a series of game, domino, match, and unclassified puzzles. Solutions for all 536 problems are included, and charming drawings enliven the book.
5th Grade at Home: A Student and Parent Guide with Lessons and Activities to Support 5th Grade Learning (Math & English Skills) (Learn at Home)
by The Princeton Review5TH GRADE AT HOME offers simple, guided lessons and activities that students and their parents can use to help keep grade-appropriate English and math skills on track.With the perfect mix of practical lessons and hands-on activities, the Learn at Home series helps keep kids engaged and up-to-date—no matter where class is held. Written to bolster independent learning, this student-centric workbook includes parent tips and simple support to help keep kids&’ education on track. • Guided help for key 5th grade English and math topics • Skills broken into short, easy-to-accomplish lessons • Modules designed to encourage students to dive in, explore, and engage in interactive learning • Fun at-home learning activities using common household items • Parent tips to contextualize lessons and help assist your child 5th Grade at Home covers key grade-appropriate English and math topics such as: • grammar • vocabulary • reading comprehension • writing • number families & lines • multiplication & divison • fractions & ratios • factors & primes • time, distance, and money problems... and more!
6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching
by Nicora PlacaIn 6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching , Nicora Placa lays out a clear path to help you become a trusted and effective math coach. Her 6 Tools- are flexible structures that you and your colleagues can use to learn together: Building Teams: Fostering a Learning Community Student Interviews: Learning to Listen Visiting Classrooms: Developing Your Lens Learning Walks: Focusing the Team on Students' Thinking Rehearsing Routines: Practicing with Colleagues Lesson Study: Learning Collectively with Voice, Choice, and Agency In this easy-to-use, practical guide, Placa introduces each of the 6 Tools with classroom vignettes, step-by-step guidelines for rollout, connections to the literature, resources for further research, planning templates, and opportunities for you to adapt the tool for your particular context. Whether you're a new coach who loves teaching math to children but is new to adult education, or a more experienced coach who is looking for new strategies to engage your teams, 6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching can help you create learning opportunities that honor teachers as professionals. With a collaborative coaching approach, you can improve teaching and learning across your school and for all your students.There's so much to love about how 6 Tools is constructed. --Elham Kazemi
6GN for Future Wireless Networks: 6th EAI International Conference, 6GN 2023, Shanghai, China, October 7-8, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #554)
by Jingchao Li Bin Zhang Yulong YingThis 2-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on 6GN for Future Wireless Networks, 6GN 2023, held in Shanghai, China, in October 7-8, 2023.The 60 full papers were selected from 151 submissions and present the state of the art and practical applications of 6G technologies. The papers are arranged thematically in tracks as follows: intelligent systems; big data mining, D2D communication, security and privacy for 6G networks; artificial intelligent techniques for 6G networks; power and energy systems I; power and energy system; power and energy systems; image, video, and signal processing; image, video, and signal processing & software engineering; communications systems and networking & control and automation systems; computer systems and applications.
6GN for Future Wireless Networks: 6th EAI International Conference, 6GN 2023, Shanghai, China, October 7-8, 2023, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #553)
by Jingchao Li Bin Zhang Yulong YingThis 2-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on 6GN for Future Wireless Networks, 6GN 2023, held in Shanghai, China, in October 7-8, 2023. The 60 full papers were selected from 151 submissions and present the state of the art and practical applications of 6G technologies. The papers are arranged thematically in tracks as follows: intelligent systems; big data mining, D2D communication, security and privacy for 6G networks; artificial intelligent techniques for 6G networks; power and energy systems I; power and energy system; power and energy systems; image, video, and signal processing; image, video, and signal processing & software engineering; communications systems and networking & control and automation systems; computer systems and applications.
6th Grade at Home: A Student and Parent Guide with Lessons and Activities to Support 6th Grade Learning (Math & English Skills) (Learn at Home)
by The Princeton Review6th Grade at Home offers simple, guided lessons and activities that students and their parents can use to help keep grade-appropriate English and math skills on track. With the perfect mix of practical lessons and hands-on activities, the Learn at Home series helps keep kids engaged and up-to-date—no matter where class is held. Written to bolster independent learning, this student-centric workbook includes parent tips and simple support to help keep kids&’ education on track. • Guided help for key 6th grade English and math topics • Skills broken into short, easy-to-accomplish lessons • Modules designed to encourage students to dive in, explore, and engage in interactive learning • Fun at-home learning activities using common household items • Parent tips to contextualize lessons and help assist your child 6th Grade at Home covers key grade-appropriate English and math skills including: • reading comprehension • writing, essays, and literary elements • major parts of speech • vocabulary, grammar, and editing • fractions, percents, ratios, and proportions • mean, median & mode • early algebra • equations & inequalities • graph literacy and more!
8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
by Jennifer D. SciubbaA provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation. As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. In 8 Billion and Counting, political demographer Jennifer D. Sciubba argues that the story of the twenty-first century is less a story about exponential population growth, as the previous century was, than it is a story about differential growth—marked by a stark divide between the world’s richest and poorest countries. Drawing from decades of research, policy experience, and teaching, Sciubba employs stories and statistics to explain how demographic trends, like age structure and ethnic composition, are crucial signposts for future violence and peace, repression and democracy, poverty and prosperity. Although we have a diverse global population, demographic trends often follow predictable patterns that can help professionals across the corporate, nonprofit, government, and military sectors understand the global strategic environment. Through the lenses of national security, global health, and economics, Sciubba demonstrates the pitfalls of taking population numbers at face value and extrapolating from there. Instead, she argues, we must look at the forces in a society that amplify demographic trends and the forces that dilute them, particularly political institutions, or the rules of the game. She shows that the most important skills in demographic analysis are naming and being aware of your preferences, rethinking assumptions, and asking the right questions. Provocative and engrossing, 8 Billion and Counting is required reading for business leaders, policy makers, and anyone eager to anticipate political, economic, and social risks and opportunities. A deeper understanding of fertility, mortality, and migration promises to point toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow.
8th International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering: Advances in Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering VIII (Volume 1) (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1252)
by Yuriy S. ShmaliyThis book collects selected aspects of recent advances and experiences, emerging technology trends that have positively impacted our world from operators, authorities, and associations from CCIE 2024, to help address the world’s advanced computing, control technology, information technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Meanwhile, the topics included in the proceedings have high research value and present current insights, developments, and trends in computing, control, and industrial engineering.
8th International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering: Advances in Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering VIII (Volume 2) (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1253)
by Yuriy S. ShmaliyThis book collects selected aspects of recent advances and experiences, emerging technology trends that have positively impacted our world from operators, authorities, and associations from CCIE 2024, to help address the world’s advanced computing, control technology, information technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Meanwhile, the topics included in the proceedings have high research value and present current insights, developments, and trends in computing, control, and industrial engineering.
8th Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Flavour Physics: Neutrinos, Flavor Physics and Beyond (FP@Capri2022) (Springer Proceedings in Physics #292)
by Giulia Ricciardi Guglielmo De Nardo Mario MerolaThis book is a collection of invited contributions presented at the 8th edition of the International Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Flavour Physics, held on the Island of Capri, Italy, on 11–13 June 2022. It is a joint workshop between experimentalists and theoreticians aiming at debating recent results and hot topics in flavour physics, in an interdisciplinary effort. Flavour, electroweak physics and neutrino physics are all foremost in the assessment of results within the standard model and search for physics beyond. Anomalies in flavour physics are hints on new physics, while with neutrino masses and oscillations the new physics has already started. Contributions deal mainly with the flavour anomalies, the flavour problem from leptons to quarks and back, including continuous versus discrete symmetries, and the connections between the Higgs sector and neutrinos, embracing see-saw models and Higgs potential analyses. Focus is on neutrinos, at high and low scales, including LHC searches and CLVF, leptogenesis, connections with dark sectors and NP mediators, non-standard neutrino interactions and the problem of the nature of massive neutrinos.
9th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference: Proceedings of EMBEC 2024, June 9-13, 2024, Portorož, Slovenia, Volume 2 (IFMBE Proceedings #113)
by Samo Mahnič-Kalamiza Tomaž Jarm Rok ŠmercThis book informs on new trends, challenges, and solutions, in the multidisciplinary field of biomedical engineering. It covers traditional topics in biomechanics and biomedical signal processing, as well as recent trends relating to the applications of artificial intelligence and IoT in healthcare, wearable devices for patient monitoring, monitoring of medical devices, machine learning applications in medical data, among others. Gathering the second volume of the proceedings of the 9th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC 2024), held on June 9-13, 2024, in Portorož, Slovenia, this book bridges fundamental and clinically-oriented research, emphasizing the role of translational research in biomedical engineering. It aims at inspiring and fostering communication and collaboration between engineers, physicists, biologists, physicians and other professionals dealing with cutting-edge themes in and advanced technologies serving the broad field of biology and healthcare.
9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #375)
by Ross Overbeek Miguel P. Rocha Florentino Fdez-Riverola Juan F. PazThis proceedings presents recent practical applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. It contains the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics held at University of Salamanca, Spain, at June 3rd-5th, 2015. The International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB) is an annual international meeting dedicated to emerging and challenging applied research in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The impressive capabilities of next generation sequencing technologies, together with novel and ever evolving distinct types of omics data technologies, have put an increasingly complex set of challenges for the growing fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The analysis of the datasets produced and their integration call for new algorithms and approaches from fields such as Databases, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Optimization, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Clearly, Biology is more and more a science of information requiring tools from the computational sciences.
A.C. Pigou and the ‘Marshallian’ Thought Style: A Study In The Philosophy And Mathematics Underlying Cambridge Economics (Palgrave Studies In The History Of Economic Thought)
by Karen Lovejoy KnightThis book provides a study of the forces underlying the development of economic thought at Cambridge University during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. The primary lens it uses to do so is an examination of how Arthur Cecil Pigou’s thinking, heavily influenced by his predecessor, Alfred Marshall, evolved. <p><p> Aspects of Pigou’s context, biography and philosophical grounding are reconstructed and then situated within the framework of Ludwik Fleck’s philosophy of scientific knowledge, most notably by drawing on the notions of ‘thought styles’ and ‘thought collectives’. In this way, Knight provides a novel contribution to the history of Pigou's economic thought.
A-Plus Notes for Algebra: Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus
by Rong YangSimple and Easy to Study and Review 1. It has 19,000 examples and exercises, from simple to complex. 2. It outlines the concepts, formulas, and theorems in algebra. 3. It facilitates the learning process in problem-solving. 4. It is good for SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, NTE and H.S Exit.
A-Plus Notes for Beginning Algebra: Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1
by Rong YangSimple and Easy to Study and Review 1. It has 19,000 examples and exercises, from simple to complex. 2. It outlines the concepts, formulas, and theorems in algebra. 3. It facilitates the learning process in problem-solving. 4. It is good for SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, NTE and H.S Exit.
The A-Z of Primary Maths (John Catt A-Z series)
by Kate FroodThe A-Z of Primary Maths is a compendium of great ideas for teaching mathematics, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet.'Maths foundations must be built in our primary schools. We need to create space for children to play with numbers, to explore patterns, to solve problems, and to laugh and chat in maths lessons. It's this start that will build a lifelong love of and confidence in maths' - Kate Frood.
The A-Z of Primary Maths (John Catt A-Z series)
by Kate FroodThe A-Z of Primary Maths is a compendium of great ideas for teaching mathematics, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet.'Maths foundations must be built in our primary schools. We need to create space for children to play with numbers, to explore patterns, to solve problems, and to laugh and chat in maths lessons. It's this start that will build a lifelong love of and confidence in maths' - Kate Frood.
The A-Z of the PhD Trajectory: A Practical Guide for a Successful Journey (Springer Texts In Education)
by Eva O. L. LantsoghtIs suitable for a classroom setting as well as for self-study.<P><P> Offers advice, anecdotes and exercises to teach junior PhD students in STEM how to succeed.<P> Provides information and suggested methods for all steps of the PhD trajectory.<P> Contains an extensive glossary of terms.<P>This textbook is a guide to success during the PhD trajectory. The first part of this book takes the reader through all steps of the PhD trajectory, and the second part contains a unique glossary of terms and explanation relevant for PhD candidates. Written in the accessible language of the PhD Talk blogs, the book contains a great deal of practical advice for carrying out research, and presenting one’s work. It includes tips and advice from current and former PhD candidates, thus representing a broad range of opinions. The book includes exercises that help PhD candidates get their work kick-started. It covers all steps of a doctoral journey in STEM: getting started in a program, planning the work, the literature review, the research question, experimental work, writing, presenting, online tools, presenting at one’s first conference, writing the first journal paper, writing and defending the thesis, and the career after the PhD. Since a PhD trajectory is a deeply personal journey, this book suggests methods PhD candidates can try out, and teaches them how to figure out for themselves which proposed methods work for them, and how to find their own way of doing things.
A1-Algebraic Topology over a Field (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #2052)
by Fabien MorelThis text deals with A1-homotopy theory over a base field, i.e., with the natural homotopy theory associated to the category of smooth varieties over a field in which the affine line is imposed to be contractible. It is a natural sequel to the foundational paper on A1-homotopy theory written together with V. Voevodsky. Inspired by classical results in algebraic topology, we present new techniques, new results and applications related to the properties and computations of A1-homotopy sheaves, A1-homology sheaves, and sheaves with generalized transfers, as well as to algebraic vector bundles over affine smooth varieties.
Aaron Judge: The Incredible Story of the New York Yankees' Home Run–Hitting Phenom
by Buster Olney David FischerAt 6-foot-7 and 285 pounds, Aaron Judge emerged as the biggest story in baseball in 2017 with his monstrous home runs and record-breaking ability. A three-sport athlete in high school and a Division I ballplayer at Fresno State, the Californian was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round in 2013 and made it to the majors by August 2016. Homering in his first major league at-bat and starting in right field straight out of spring training in 2017, he gave Yankees fans hope for the future, along with "Baby Bombers" teammates such as Gary Sanchez.After a rough start in which he batted below .200 and struck out in over 40 percent of his plate appearances after joining the Yankees, Judge turned things around and helped get his team off to a fast start in 2017 with 10 homers in April alone, tying the rookie record for the month. He then broke the legendary Joe DiMaggio’s team record for most round trippers by the All-Star break with 30, including one that measured at 495 feet. His mounting popularity enabled him to receive more All-Star votes than any American League player and to the creation of the "Judge's Chambers" section located in the right-field stands of Yankee Stadium. Judge's momentum next led to him winning the 2017 Home Run Derby where he smashed a total of 47, four of which traveled more than 500 feet. It's no wonder that baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has said that Judge is a player "who can become the face of the game." In Aaron Judge: The Incredible Story of the New York Yankees' Home Run-Hitting Phenom, David Fischer brings the exciting story of the Yankees' newest superstar to life.
Ab Initio Studies on Superconductivity in Alkali-Doped Fullerides (Springer Theses)
by Yusuke NomuraThis book covers high-transition temperature (Tc) s-wave superconductivity and the neighboring Mott insulating phase in alkali-doped fullerides. The author presents (1) a unified theoretical description of the phase diagram and (2) a nonempirical calculation of Tc. For these purposes, the author employs an extension of the DFT+DMFT (density-functional theory + dynamical mean-field theory). He constructs a realistic electron-phonon-coupled Hamiltonian with a newly formulated downfolding method. The Hamiltonian is analyzed by means of the extended DMFT. A notable aspect of the approach is that it requires only the crystal structure as a priori knowledge. Remarkably, the nonempirical calculation achieves for the first time a quantitative reproduction of the experimental phase diagram including the superconductivity and the Mott phase. The calculated Tc agrees well with the experimental data, with the difference within 10 K. The book provides details of the computational scheme, which can also be applied to other superconductors and other phonon-related topics. The author clearly describes a superconducting mechanism where the Coulomb and electron-phonon interactions show an unusual cooperation in the superconductivity thanks to the Jahn-Teller nature of the phonons.
Ab initio Theory of Magnetic Ordering: Electronic Origin of Pair- and Multi-Spin Interactions (Springer Theses)
by Eduardo Mendive TapiaMany technological applications exploit a variety of magnetic structures, or magnetic phases, to produce and optimise solid-state functionality. However, most research advances are restricted to a reduced number of phases owing to computational and resource constraints. This thesis presents an ab-initio theory to efficiently describe complex magnetic phases and their temperature-dependent properties. The central assumption is that magnetic phases evolve slowly compared with the underlying electronic structure from which they emerge. By describing how the electronic structure adapts to the type and extent of magnetic order, a theory able to describe multi-spin correlations and their effect on the magnetism at finite temperature is obtained. It is shown that multi-spin correlations are behind the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the diverse magnetism in the heavy rare earth elements. Magnetically frustrated Mn-based materials and the effect of strain are also investigated. These studies demonstrate that the performance of solid-state refrigeration can be enhanced by multi-spin effects.
Abacus Basic Competency: A Counting Method
by Susan M. MillawayLearn the parts of an abacus, how to "set" numbers and how to do calculations! There are competency tests with answers in the back of the book.
The Abacus Made Easy: A Simplified Manual for Teaching the Cranmer Abacus
by Mae E DavidowFrom the book: At Overbrook, [School for the Blind] Dr. Davidow was instrumental in establishing the use of the Cranmer Abacus as a part of the regular curriculum. Her enthusiasm for this pioneer method of teaching mathematics led others to adopt the use of the abacus. In her role as coordinating teacher, she worked with the members of the Mathematics Department and the results were highly successful. Hopeful that this success at Overbrook might be experienced by many teachers elsewhere, she was encouraged to write this manual. Her goal was to write a clear, simple manual which could be used by teachers or students. This book represents her achievement.
ABC Math Book (STEAM Baby for Infants and Toddlers)
by Dori Roberts Stewart MSHelp your little one learn letters and math together—an ABC math book for kids ages 0 to 3 Give your little learner a jump-start with this fun, inspiring way to master their ABCs. From Abacus to Zero, this ABC book introduces young children to foundational mathematical concepts with each letter of the alphabet, doubling the learning and fun while giving your toddler a head start on their education. The ABC Math Book features: Levels of discovery—Explore a tiered learning approach that grows with your child. Focus first on letters, then words, and finally, understanding concepts. Colorful images—Keep your child engaged with rich and vibrant illustrations that add to their learning. Full S.T.E.A.M. ahead—Encourage a lifelong love of learning with all the books in the S.T.E.A.M. Baby series. Foster an excitement for learning in your little one with this fun exploration of letters and mathematical concepts.