Math Triumphs--Foundations for Algebra 1

Math Triumphs--Foundations for Algebra 1

Author: McGraw Hill

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2009-01-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780078908460

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Math Triumphs is an intensive intervention resource for students who are two or more years below grade level. The series accompanies Glencoe Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 and provides step-by-step intervention, vocabulary support, and data-driven decision making to help students succeed in high school mathematics.


The Girl with a Mind for Math

The Girl with a Mind for Math

Author: Julia Finley Mosca

Publisher: Amazing Scientists

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943147700

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After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted-- finally gaining her well-deserved title in history: a pioneer who changed the course of ship design forever.


This Is Not A Test

This Is Not A Test

Author: José Vilson

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2014-05-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1608464288

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José Vilson writes about race, class, and education through stories from the classroom and researched essays. His rise from rookie math teacher to prominent teacher leader takes a twist when he takes on education reform through his now-blocked eponymous blog, TheJoseVilson.com. He calls for the reclaiming of the education profession while seeking social justice. José Vilson is a middle school math educator for in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED / Future of Teaching, and his work has appeared in Education Week, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and El Diario / La Prensa.


The Key to the Door

The Key to the Door

Author: Maurice Apprey

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2017-04-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0813939879

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The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of experiences and perspectives through first-person narratives of black students during the University of Virginia’s era of incremental desegregation. The authors relate what life was like before enrolling, during their time at the University, and after graduation. In addition to these personal accounts, the volume includes a historical overview of African Americans at the University—from its earliest slaves and free black employees, through its first black applicant, student admission, graduate, and faculty appointments, on to its progress and challenges in the twenty-first century. Including essays from graduates of the schools of law, medicine, engineering, and education, The Key to the Door a candid and long-overdue account of African American experiences at the University’ of Virginia.


100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics

100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics

Author: Heinrich Dörrie

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0486318478

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Problems that beset Archimedes, Newton, Euler, Cauchy, Gauss, Monge, Steiner, and other great mathematical minds. Features squaring the circle, pi, and similar problems. No advanced math is required. Includes 100 problems with proofs.


Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics

Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics

Author: Howard Eves

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 048613220X

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Third edition of popular undergraduate-level text offers historic overview, readable treatment of mathematics before Euclid, Euclid's Elements, non-Euclidean geometry, algebraic structure, formal axiomatics, sets, more. Problems, some with solutions. Bibliography.


The Wild Book

The Wild Book

Author: Margarita Engle

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0547581319

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In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.


Math Curse

Math Curse

Author: Jon Scieszka

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995-10-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0670861944

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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem? Why do 2 apples always have to be added to 5 oranges? Why do 4 kids always have to divide 12 marbles? Why can't you just keep 10 cookies without someone taking 3 away? Why? Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken.


Numbers in Motion

Numbers in Motion

Author: Laurie Wallmark

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939547637

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"This picture book traces the impressive career of Sophie Kowalevski, the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics requiring original research. As a girl, Sophie is fascinated by the equations her father uses to wallpaper her room. She proves herself a prodigy, and tutors are impressed enough to give her private lessons. Despite universities that refuse to allow women on campus or to pay them to teach, Sophie is able to distinguish herself with her research into partial differential equations. Sophie receives a doctorate and becomes the first female professional mathematician in Northern Europe. The book mentions several of Kowalevski's mathematical contributions and closes with an encouraging message about women in mathematics"--