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Great Courses volume 17
Pub. Date
p2007
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Starting with the analysis of the proposition 0.999999999 ... = 1, this lecture explores what it means to add up an infinite series of numbers. Some infinite series converge on a definite value, while others grow arbitrarily large.
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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
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2018.
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Elephant has a bucket of blocks and wants to build something as tall as he is. But will it stay up? CRASH! BOOM! Not this time. Build it again? Young children follow along as Elephant goes through the ups and downs of creating something new and finally celebrates the joy and pride of success.
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2012
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From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments by Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton, and other mathematicians, this engaging resource addresses more than 1,000 questions related to mathematics. Organized into chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format, this reference provides clear and concise...
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Franklin School friends volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
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Lunch Lady volume 7
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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For having skipped the school field trip, Dee, Hector, and Terrence must join the mathletes team but as they are poised to beat the undefeated champions, secret crime fighter Lunch Lady discovers something strange about the opposing team.