Math Adventures with Python
Math Adventures with Python

Author: Peter Farrell

Publisher: No Starch Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1593278683

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Learn math by getting creative with code! Use the Python programming language to transform learning high school-level math topics like algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus! Math Adventures with Python will show you how to harness the power of programming to keep math relevant and fun. With the aid of the Python programming language, you'll learn how to visualize solutions to a range of math problems as you use code to explore key mathematical concepts like algebra, trigonometry, matrices, and cellular automata. Once you've learned the programming basics like loops and variables, you'll write your own programs to solve equations quickly, make cool things like an interactive rainbow grid, and automate tedious tasks like factoring numbers and finding square roots. You'll learn how to write functions to draw and manipulate shapes, create oscillating sine waves, and solve equations graphically. You'll also learn how to: - Draw and transform 2D and 3D graphics with matrices - Make colorful designs like the Mandelbrot and Julia sets with complex numbers - Use recursion to create fractals like the Koch snowflake and the Sierpinski triangle - Generate virtual sheep that graze on grass and multiply autonomously - Crack secret codes using genetic algorithms As you work through the book's numerous examples and increasingly challenging exercises, you'll code your own solutions, create beautiful visualizations, and see just how much more fun math can be!

Once Upon a Dime
Once Upon a Dime

Author: Nancy Kelly Allen

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1607341573

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Farmer Worth discovers that a special tree on his farm produces different kinds of money, depending on what animal fertilizer he uses.

Toads and Tessellations
Toads and Tessellations

Author: Sharon Morrisette

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1580893546

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Enzo is the son of a great magician, however unlike his father, his spells create chaos instead of order. What really interests Enzo, more than books about magic, are books by and about the lives of famous physicists and astronomers like Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler. Enzo dreams not of becoming a magician, but a mathematician instead. When Tessel, the village shoemaker, is called upon to make twelve identical shoes out of only one piece of leather, Aida, the shoemaker’s sister, goes to Enzo’s father for some magic to help her brother. With Enzo’s father out of town at a magic convention, it’s up to Enzo to help Aida and Tessel out of their predicament. A spell snafu leads Enzo and Aida to a method of forming patterns without gaps or overlaps, and they discover that math, not magic, may be the answer to their problem. Sharon Morisette’s accessible text introduces readers to the concept of tessellations, while Philomena O’Neill’s illustrations offer a clear visual to what tiling is—children will enjoy finding the tessellations hidden throughout the images. Back matter includes a glossary and notes about tessellations, Galileo, and Kepler.

Fractions in Disguise
Fractions in Disguise

Author: Edward Einhorn

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1607347288

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Equal parts action and humor add up to a wholly entertaining introduction to simplifying fractions, in this one-of-a-kind math picture book story. When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-gotten fractions, G.C.F. invents a Reducer—half ray gun, half calculator— that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction to its lowest common denominator and revealing its true form. With the Reducer in hand, George seeks out Dr. Brok in hopes of retrieving the missing fraction. David Clark’s illustrations are packed with humorous details as well as clearly defined fractions and their corresponding reduction equations.

Pythagoras and the Ratios
Pythagoras and the Ratios

Author: Julie Ellis

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1607341891

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An ancient Greek boy, Pythagoras, helps his cousins produce pleasant music when he adjusts the mathematical ratios between the part of their pipes and lyres, knowledge he would later use to become a famous philosopher.

A Place for Zero
A Place for Zero

Author: Angeline Sparagna LoPresti

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1570916020

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As Zero searches to find his place, he learns of his additive and multiplicative identities, and then he establishes place value.

Daily Math Adventures
Daily Math Adventures

Author: Marcy Cook

Publisher: Cuisenaire Company

Published: 1987-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780201480016

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Students need to practice daily the basic skills of estimation, computation, and problem solving in order to cope with problems in the real world when they no longer have the luxury of a teacher's guidance. This problem-solving ability will help them to become confident and capable adults. Here is a collection of' real world' verbal problems that encourage problem solving as well as computational practice, both with and without a calculator. Unlike the textbook, these problems are purposely not organized around one particular operation.

Mad for Math, Grade 4
Mad for Math, Grade 4

Author: Linda Bertola

Publisher: Spark Publishing Group

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781411479081

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Come along with the wizard's apprentice as he guides you through a very special castle. There you'll discover powerful potions, secret passages, mazes, and more. But it seems the apprentice needs a little help remembering his magic formulas. Using a little addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and other math skills, fourth-graders can save the day!

A Day's Adventure In Math Wonderland
A Day's Adventure In Math Wonderland

Author: Jin Akiyama

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9814470953

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Math Wonderland is a museum of interactive mathematical models in Hokkaido, Japan, founded by one of the authors, Jin Akiyama, in 2003. The models in Wonderland, many of which have been exhibited all over Japan and in cities around the world, are meant to help children and young adults discover and experience the wonders of mathematics.This book is centered around the experiences of three fictional middle-school students during a visit to Wonderland. They spend a day in Wonderland, handling the interactive models and participating in the activities offered there. At the end of the day, they leave with a genuine appreciation of mathematics gained from witnessing its beauty, applicability and inevitability.The book is an important contribution to the genre because it presents mathematics and models that have never before appeared in books in the same category: reversible solids, plane tiling with developments of tetrahedrons, and double-packable solids, which are derived from the authors' own research papers published in mathematics journals. It is designed to entertain, inform and even teach some mathematics. Although it is targeted at young adults, parents and teachers may learn something from the book as well.