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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.
“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries...
“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries...
12) Nearly gone
Author
Series
Nearly gone volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, a imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A math-whiz from a trailer park discovers she's the only student capable of unravelling complex clues left by a serial killer who's systematically getting rid of her classmates"--
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Hackers 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning the requirement of advanced mathematics in our schools instantly became one of the papers most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict a full menu of mathematicsalgebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculuson all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes?
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A mathematically gifted sixth-grader is recruited by a group of students to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world and win the big prize.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Murray Learning
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Calculus : a complete introduction is an accessible and easy-to-use guide, with everything you need to know here in one book. It covers all the key areas including functions, gradients, rates of change, differentiation, exponential and logarithmic functions and integration"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers an overview of how Common Core mathematics is taught, grade by grade, for parents who may not be familiar with this method of teaching mathematics who still want to help their children succeed in the subject.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math--topology, analysis, and algebra--which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour...
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