The Fly on the Ceiling
Author: Julie Glass
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780679986072
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Author: Julie Glass
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780679986072
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Author: Julie Glass
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1998-05-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0679886079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecognized as the father of analytic geometry, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and very accessible tale - based on one of math's greatest myths - about the man who popularized the Cartesion system of coordinates.
Author: Julie Glass
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780606139625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKids are sure to love this funny and very accessible tale--based on one of math's greatest myths--about Rene Descartes, the father of modern geometry. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Julie Glass
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1998-05-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613077958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story about how the very messy French philosopher, Rene Descartes, invented an ingenious way to keep track of his possessions.
Author: Julie Glass
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story about how the very messy French philosopher, René Descartes, invented an ingenious way to keep track of his possessions.
Author: Julie Glass
Publisher: Follettbound
Published: 1998-05-19
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780758761026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angeline Sparagna LoPresti
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1570916020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Zero searches to find his place, he learns of his additive and multiplicative identities, and then he establishes place value.
Author: Seymour A Papert
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 154167510X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to succeed in the ever-evolving tech world. Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers. Technology changes every day, but the basic ways that computers can help us learn remain. For thousands of teachers and parents who have sought creative ways to help children learn with computers, Mindstorms is their bible.
Author: Eileen M. Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1956763007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring and passing on her legacy to a new generation.
Author: Jason Padgett
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0544045645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom head trauma to scientific wonder—a “deeply absorbing . . . fascinating” true story of acquired savant syndrome (Entertainment Weekly). Twelve years ago, Jason Padgett had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain worked. It turned an ordinary math-averse student into an extraordinary young man with a unique gift to see the world as no one else does: water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. As his ability to understand physics skyrocketed, the “accidental genius” developed the astonishing ability to draw the complex geometric shapes he saw everywhere. Overcoming huge setbacks and embracing his new mind, Padgett “gained a vision of the world that is as beautiful as it is challenging.” Along the way he fell in love, found joy in numbers, and spent plenty of time having his head examined (The New York Times Book Review). Illustrated with Jason’s stunning, mathematically precise artwork, his singular story reveals the wondrous potential of the human brain, and “an incredible phenomenon which points toward dormant potential—a little Rain Man perhaps—within us all” (Darold A. Treffert, MD, author of Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant). “A tale worthy of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! . . . This memoir sends a hopeful message to families touched by brain injury, autism, or neurological damage from strokes.” —Booklist “How extraordinary it is to contemplate the bizarre gifts that might lie within all of us.” —People