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With great care and effort, the authors have crafted this new edition to serve the needs of today's students and instructors.
Designed with a variety of students in mind.
In math, like any subject, real learning takes place when students can connect what they already know to new ideas. In "Connecting Mathematical Idea"s, Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphreys offer...
By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights--from the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem)--this book shows how mathematics has changed the way we look ...
The 14th Edition updates and enhances the text's hallmark features, and expands its robust MyLab(tm) Math course to include StatCrunch® applets, animations, corequisite course material, new section lecture videos, and much more.
Other children aren't convinced, but identifying the mystery object as an onion appears to be the most compelling ... They learn that this is a bulb for an amaryllis plant and that it will take several weeks before it 158 SHOW AND TELL.
In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts of groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other mathematical subjects. 200 illustrations.
This is a lucid introduction to some of the mathematical ideas which are useful to biologists. Professor Maynard Smith introduces the reader to the ways in which biological problems can...
The main intention of this book is to describe and develop the conceptual, structural and abstract thinking of mathematics.
This book is destined to be a classic on the subject."--Arthur Benjamin, coauthor of Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks "This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging.