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It's Alive! And Kicking!: Math the Way It Ought to Be - Tough, Fun, and a Little Weird! (Grades 4-8) (Its Alive! Ser.)
by Asa Kleiman David Washington Mary Ford WashingtonThe authors, junior high students and best friends David and Asa, along with best-selling author Marya Washington Tyler, took the kind of gooey, slimy, disgusting science facts that students love and turned them into hilarious math problems. Your students will enjoy trying to determine what percent of the refrigerators in the U.S. contain moldy food. When's the last time you had your students figure the weight of cow manure produced in the U.S.?How many 8-ounce coffee mugs will an average person's sweat fill? What is the number of saliva droplets expelled in one class period?Your students won't mind math when they get to figure the cost of a meal at the Aftermath Restaurant, with foods like Deep Fried Lint, Pseudo-Chicken Parts, Wax Fruit Bowl, and Hot Sludge Sundae. Even the answer key is hilarious.These and other intriguing problems await your students in this book designed to teach children to translate statements and questions into mathematical equations. All the problems are based on known scientific facts. For even more exciting and strange math problems, see the original It's Alive!Grades 4-8
It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
by Tristan Donovan"[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street JournalBoard games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.
It's All About Coordination: Essays Dedicated To Farhad Arbab On The Occasion Of His 65th Birthday (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues #10865)
by Frank De Boer Marcello Bonsangue Jan RuttenThis Festschrift volume has been published to celebrate the lifelong scientific achievements of Farhad Arbab on the occasion of his retirement from the Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).Over the years Farhad Arbab has sucessfully been engaged in scientific explorations in various directions: Software Composition, Service Oriented Computing, Component-based Software, Concurrency Theory, Coordination Models and Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Visual Programming Environments, Constraints, Logic and Object-Oriented Programming.Farhad Arbab has shaped the field of Coordination Models and Languages. His insight that it is all about exeogeneous coordination gave rise to the striking elegance and beauty of Reo: an exogenous coordination model based on a formal calculus of channel composition. Reo has been extremely successful and is having a great impact in many of the areas mentioned above.The present volume collects a number of papers by several of Farhad’s close collaborators over the years.
It's Math—Not Magic!
by Linda O. George Anna RaffDo you like math? Math is so much more that just numbers and counting! It can be fun! You don’t have to be a magician or a mathematician to perform tricks with numbers. Just read carefully and follow the directions. Remember, a good numbers trick never gets old. Learn how to use math in a way that will bedazzle everyone you know and make them think that math truly is magic! You will be to use math in fun and exciting ways other than what you learn in the classroom!
IUTAM Laminar-Turbulent Transition: 9th IUTAM Symposium, London, UK, September 2–6, 2019 (IUTAM Bookseries #38)
by Spencer Sherwin Peter Schmid Xuesong WuThis volume comprises the carefully revised papers of the 9th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, held at the Imperial College, London, UK, in September 2019. The papers focus on the leading research in understanding transition to turbulence, which is a challenging topic of fluid mechanics and arises in many modern technologies as well as in nature. The proceedings are of interest for researchers in fluid mechanics and industry who have to handle these types of problems, such as in the aeronautical sector.
IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics
by Ellen M. Arruda Krishna GarikipatiThese Proceedings reflect the state of current understanding of the role played by mechanics in biological systems at the molecular, cellular and tissue levels. The invited papers will be notable for the expressed viewpoints of biologists, biophysicists and mechanicians. The topics addressed will range from tissue engineering and tissue mechanics, through cell mechanics, down to the mechanics of biomolecules.
IUTAM Symposium on Model Order Reduction of Coupled Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, May 22–25, 2018: MORCOS 2018 (IUTAM Bookseries #36)
by Jörg Fehr Bernard HaasdonkThis volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Model Order Reduction of Coupled System, held in Stuttgart, Germany, May 22–25, 2018. For the understanding and development of complex technical systems, such as the human body or mechatronic systems, an integrated, multiphysics and multidisciplinary view is essential. Many problems can be solved within one physical domain. For the simulation and optimization of the combined system, the different domains are connected with each other. Very often, the combination is only possible by using reduced order models such that the large-scale dynamical system is approximated with a system of much smaller dimension where the most dominant features of the large-scale system are retained as much as possible. The field of model order reduction (MOR) is interdisciplinary. Researchers from Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science identify, explore and compare the potentials, challenges and limitations of recent and new advances.
IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modelling of Fatigue, Damage and Fracture in Smart Materials
by Andreas Ricoeur Meinhard KunaToday, multi-functional materials such as piezoelectric/ferroelectric ceramics, magneto-strictive and shape memory alloys are gaining increasing applications as sensors, actuators or smart composite materials systems for emerging high tech areas. The stable performance and reliability of these smart components under complex service loads is of paramount practical importance. However, most multi-functional materials suffer from various mechanical and/or electro-magnetical degra-dation mechanisms as fatigue, damage and fracture. Therefore, this exciting topic has become a challenge to intensive international research, provoking the interdisciplinary approach between solid mechanics, materials science and physics. This book summarizes the outcome of the above mentioned IUTAM-symposium, assembling contributions by leading scientists in this area. Particularly, the following topics have been addressed: (1) Development of computational methods for coupled electromechanical field analysis, especially extended, adaptive and multi-level finite elements. (2) Constitutive modeling of non-linear smart material behavior with coupled electric, magnetic, thermal and mechanical fields, primarily based on micro-mechanical models. (3) Investigations of fracture and fatigue in piezoelectric and ferroelectric ceramics by means of process zone modeling, phase field simulation and configurational mechanics. (4) Reliability and durability of sensors and actuators under in service loading by alternating mechanical, electrical and thermal fields. (5) Experimental methods to measure fracture strength and to investigate fatigue crack growth in ferroelectric materials under electromechanical loading. (6) New ferroelectric materials, compounds and composites with enhanced strain capabilities.
IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design
by Giuseppe Rega Marian WiercigrochNonlinear dynamics has been enjoying a vast development for nearly four decades resulting in a range of well established theory, with the potential to significantly enhance performance, effectiveness, reliability and safety of physical systems as well as offering novel technologies and designs. By critically appraising the state-of-the-art, it is now time to develop design criteria and technology for new generation products/processes operating on principles of nonlinear interaction and in the nonlinear regime, leading to more effective, sensitive, accurate, and durable methods than what is currently available. This new approach is expected to radically influence the design, control and exploitation paradigms, in a magnitude of contexts. With a strong emphasis on experimentally calibrated and validated models, contributions by top-level international experts will foster future directions for the development of engineering technologies and design using robust nonlinear dynamics modelling and analysis.
IUTAM Symposium on The Physics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows on Rough Walls
by T. B. NickelsThis work describes the state-of-the-art in the understanding of turbulent wall-bounded flows developing on rough surfaces. This symposium brought together the best researchers in the field to discuss the technical issues and develop a consistent approach to the subject - hence it is an up-to-date reference work for research in this area.
Iwasawa Theory 2012
by Thanasis Bouganis Otmar VenjakobThis is the fifth conference in a bi-annual series, following conferences in Besancon, Limoges, Irsee and Toronto. The meeting aims to bring together different strands of research in and closely related to the area of Iwasawa theory. During the week before the conference in a kind of summer school a series of preparatory lectures for young mathematicians was provided as an introduction to Iwasawa theory. Iwasawa theory is a modern and powerful branch of number theory and can be traced back to the Japanese mathematician Kenkichi Iwasawa, who introduced the systematic study of Z_p-extensions and p-adic L-functions, concentrating on the case of ideal class groups. Later this would be generalized to elliptic curves. Over the last few decades considerable progress has been made in automorphic Iwasawa theory, e. g. the proof of the Main Conjecture for GL(2) by Kato and Skinner & Urban. Techniques such as Hida's theory of p-adic modular forms and big Galois representations play a crucial part. Also a noncommutative Iwasawa theory of arbitrary p-adic Lie extensions has been developed. This volume aims to present a snapshot of the state of art of Iwasawa theory as of 2012. In particular it offers an introduction to Iwasawa theory (based on a preparatory course by Chris Wuthrich) and a survey of the proof of Skinner & Urban (based on a lecture course by Xin Wan).
J. Michael Dunn on Information Based Logics
by Katalin BimbóThis book celebrates and expands on J. Michael Dunn's work oninformational interpretations of logic. Dunn, in his Ph. D. thesis (1966),introduced a semantics for first-degree entailments utilizing the idea that asentence can provide positive or negative information about a topic, possiblysupplying both or neither. He later published a related interpretation of thelogic R-mingle, which turned out to be one of the first relational semanticsfor a relevance logic. An incompatibility relation between information stateslends itself to a definition of negation and it has figured into Dunn'scomprehensive investigations into representations of various negations. Theinformational view of semantics is also a prominent theme in Dunn's research onother logics, such as quantum logic and linear logic, and led to theencompassing theory of generalized Galois logics (or "gaggles"). Dunn's latest work addresses informational interpretations of the ternaryaccessibility relation and the very nature of information. The book opens withDunn's autobiography, followed by a list of his publications. It then presentsa series of papers written by respected logicians working on different aspectsof information-based logics. The topics covered include the logic R-mingle,which was introduced by Dunn, and its applications in mathematical reasoning aswell as its importance in obtaining results for other relevance logics. Thereare also interpretations of the accessibility relation in the semantics ofrelevance and other non-classical logics using different notions ofinformation. It also presents a collection of papers that develop semantics forvarious logics, including certain modal and many-valued logics. The publication of thisbook is well timed, since we are living in an "information age. " Providingnew technical findings, intellectual history and careful expositions ofintriguing ideas, it appeals to a wide audience of scholars and researchers.
JA. ECONOMICS
by Junior Achievement UsaA book that will help you develop your economic thinking and knowledge, As you progress through this course, you will see that economics is largely a way of thinking--about all kinds of things. Like learning to play a sport or a musical instrument, economic thinking is a skill that takes practice to develop.
Jack Appreciates Math
by Tuesday J. JohnsonThe book demonstrates how math is integrated into everything from personal finance, to nutrition and exercise, to scheduling. Calculating probability is linked to Powerball and Mega Millions. Modular arithmetic pops up in check digits, clocks and calendars, and personal data. <p><p> Students who think they don’t use or need math will gain a greater appreciation of the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden ratio, and Hamiltonian circuits as they see how this “math stuff” can and does play a meaningful and important role in what they do and how they live. <p> Jack Appreciates Math is written for standard liberal arts math courses for non-majors. It can also be used in high school life skills courses or as a refresher for those who use math in everyday applications.
Jacobi Forms, Finite Quadratic Modules and Weil Representations over Number Fields
by Hatice BoylanThe new theory of Jacobi forms over totally real number fields introduced in this monograph is expected to give further insight into the arithmetic theory of Hilbert modular forms, its L-series, and into elliptic curves over number fields. This work is inspired by the classical theory of Jacobi forms over the rational numbers, which is an indispensable tool in the arithmetic theory of elliptic modular forms, elliptic curves, and in many other disciplines in mathematics and physics. Jacobi forms can be viewed as vector valued modular forms which take values in so-called Weil representations. Accordingly, the first two chapters develop the theory of finite quadratic modules and associated Weil representations over number fields. This part might also be interesting for those who are merely interested in the representation theory of Hilbert modular groups. One of the main applications is the complete classification of Jacobi forms of singular weight over an arbitrary totally real number field.
Jacobi Matrices and the Moment Problem (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications #294)
by Yurij Berezansky Mykola DudkinThis monograph presents the solution of the classical moment problem, the construction of Jacobi matrices and corresponding polynomials. The cases of strongly,trigonometric, complex and real two-dimensional moment problems are discussed, and the Jacobi-type matrices corresponding to the trigonometric moment problem are shown. The Berezansky theory of the expansion in generalized eigenvectors for corresponding set of commuting operators plays the key role in the proof of results.The book is recommended for researchers in fields of functional analysis, operator theory, mathematical physics, and engineers who deal with problems of coupled pendulums.
Jacobo, el constructor: Jack the Builder (Spanish Edition) (MathStart 1)
by Stuart J. Murphy“Kids, young and old, fall in love with math when they see how real-life and effortless it becomes thanks to these books.” —Kimberly D. Mueller, Ed.D., First Grade Teacher, Ashbrook School, Lumberton NJThis high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom.The MathStart series has sold over 1.5 million copies and combines math with fun stories that have real-life applications. In Jacob el constructor, a Level One MathStart, Math becomes child's play as young readers are introduced to the skill of counting on, a first step toward mastering addition.Dos bloques . . . más tres son cinco bloques . . . ¡más diez son quince! ¿Qué puede crear un niño con su imaginación? Este cuento sobre bloques y construcción presenta la destreza matemática contar hacia adelante, un paso importante para dominar la suma.Math skills are life skills, and the MathStart series supports success!This award-winning series by Stuart J. Murphy teaches math through stories and visual models63 books divided into three levels with 21 books in eachFun activities kids will love are included to help parents and teachers emphasize the lessonsEngaging and relatable stories, with each story revolving around practical applications of the math concept presentedLively art from top-notch illustratorsCharts and other visual representations help children understand how the math works and promote deeper comprehensionMathStart's unique combination of stories, illustrations, and visual models helps teachers and parents in the teaching of math and provides all children with the opportunity to succeed.The math concepts taught in MathStart books conform to state and national standards. Level 1 is Pre-K–Kindergarten; Level 2 is Grades 1–3; Level 3 is Grades 2–4. The series follows math topics across grades so there is a foundational path to learning that runs through the levels.Help kids with their math skills plus their reading skills with the engaging and fun MathStart series!
Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Primary 2
by Joyce L. VanTassel-Baska Tamra StambaughJoyce L. VanTassel-Baska is Professor Emerita at The College of William and Mary, where she founded the Center for Gifted Education. Formerly she initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University.
Jacques Feldbau, Topologe
by Michèle AudinMit seinen Arbeiten über Faserbündel und Homotopiegruppen gehört Jacques Feldbau zu den Wegbereitern der modernen Topologie. Als elsässischer Jude in Clermond-Ferrand verhaftet, verstarb Feldbau zwei Wochen vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges während der Deportation nach Auschwitz. Die Autorin zeichnet Leben und Werk des Mathematikers unter den Bedingungen des Nationalsozialismus und des Vichy-Regimes nach und präsentiert zahlreiche bisher unbekannte Fakten.
Jamaica Primary Mathematics Book 1 NSC Edition
by Lisa GreensteinMake maths fun, attainable and relevant with a series specifically designed for Jamaica's National Standard Curriculum by an expert team of authors in consultation with Jamaican educators.- Enter new topics with exciting chapter openers and Starting point activities to determine prior knowledge and learning readiness.- Develop analytical skills with features such as Problem solving and Real-life maths activities.- Provide a solid foundation for learning and PEP preparation at grades 4-6.- Consolidate learning at the beginning and end of each chapter with objectives and What I have learned activities.
Jamaica Primary Mathematics Book 2 NSC Edition
by Lisa GreensteinMake maths fun, attainable and relevant with a series specifically designed for Jamaica's National Standard Curriculum by an expert team of authors in consultation with Jamaican educators.- Enter new topics with exciting chapter openers and Starting point activities to determine prior knowledge and learning readiness.- Develop analytical skills with features such as Problem solving and Real-life maths activities.- Provide a solid foundation for learning and PEP preparation at grades 4-6.- Consolidate learning at the beginning and end of each chapter with objectives and What I have learned activities.
Jamaica Primary Mathematics Book 3 NSC Edition
by Lisa GreensteinMake maths fun, attainable and relevant with a series specifically designed for Jamaica's National Standard Curriculum by an expert team of authors in consultation with Jamaican educators.- Enter new topics with exciting chapter openers and Starting point activities to determine prior knowledge and learning readiness.- Develop analytical skills with features such as Problem solving and Real-life maths activities.- Provide a solid foundation for learning and PEP preparation at grades 4-6.- Consolidate learning at the beginning and end of each chapter with objectives and What I have learned activities.
Jamaica Primary Mathematics Book 4 NSC Edition
by Kerry Saadien-Raad Jennifer Peek Lisa GreensteinMake maths fun, attainable and relevant with a series specifically designed for Jamaica's National Standard Curriculum by an expert team of authors in consultation with Jamaican educators.- Enter new topics with exciting unit openers and Starting point activities to determine prior knowledge and learning readiness.- Develop analytical skills with features such as Maths detective and Real-world maths activities.- Provide a solid foundation for learning and PEP preparation at grades 4-6. - Consolidate learning at the beginning and end of each chapter with objectives and What I have learned activities, Practice questions and chapter Self-check reflection.
Jamaica Primary Mathematics Book 5 NSC Edition
by Steph King Josh LuryMake maths fun, attainable and relevant with a series specifically designed for Jamaica's National Standard Curriculum by an expert team of authors in consultation with Jamaican educators.- Enter new topics with an exciting unit/chapter opener and DIY prior knowledge activities to determine learning readiness.- Develop analytical skills with features such as Math detective and Real-world challenge.- Extend, support and evaluate learning while exploring alternative methodologies with Teacher tips and notes.- Provide a solid foundation for learning and PEP preparation at grades 4-6.- Consolidate learning with 'I can' objectives and DIY summary activities.
Jamaica Primary Mathematics Book 6 NSC Edition
by Michelle Holgarth Lisa GreensteinMake maths fun, attainable and relevant with a series specifically designed for Jamaica's National Standard Curriculum by an expert team of authors in consultation with Jamaican educators.- Enter new topics with an exciting unit/chapter opener and DIY prior knowledge activities to determine learning readiness.- Develop analytical skills with features such as Math detective and Real-world challenge.- Extend, support and evaluate learning while exploring alternative methodologies with Teacher tips and notes.- Provide a solid foundation for learning and PEP preparation at grades 4-6.- Consolidate learning with 'I can' objectives and DIY summary activities.