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Author |
: Chip Heath |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2022-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982165451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982165456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Numbers Count by : Chip Heath
A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Author |
: Lynn Arthur Steen |
Publisher |
: College Board |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105026431903 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Numbers Count by : Lynn Arthur Steen
Numeracy math literacy dominated by the spreadsheet is the currency of modern life. This authoritative study makes the case that innumeracy math illiteracy is rapidly becoming an active agent of disenfranchisement. Asked how we came to this point, the responses of a number of people who deal with math every day are published collectively here and make interesting and sobering reading.
Author |
: Richard Evan Schwartz |
Publisher |
: American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2015-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781470422097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1470422093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis You Can Count on Monsters by : Richard Evan Schwartz
This book is a unique teaching tool that takes math lovers on a journey designed to motivate kids (and kids at heart) to learn the fun of factoring and prime numbers. This volume visually explores the concepts of factoring and the role of prime and composite numbers. The playful and colorful monsters are designed to give children (and even older audiences) an intuitive understanding of the building blocks of numbers and the basics of multiplication. The introduction and appendices can also help adult readers answer questions about factoring from their young audience. The artwork is crisp and creative and the colors are bright and engaging, making this volume a welcome deviation from standard math texts. Any person, regardless of age, can profit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, continually learning from and getting to know the monsters as their knowledge expands. You Can Count on Monsters is a magnificent addition for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the visually fascinating world of the numbers 1 through 100.
Author |
: Keith Baker |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0152050256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780152050252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quack and Count by : Keith Baker
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.
Author |
: Megan Atwood |
Publisher |
: ABDO |
Total Pages |
: 26 |
Release |
: 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781614787600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1614787603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balancing Bears:Comparing Numbers by : Megan Atwood
Animals make perfect counting company! The simple language teaches young readers mathematical terms and counting concepts. Learn to compare numbers in the Balancing Bears book in this adorable series that counts the critters. Special thanks to content consultants Paula J. Maida, PhD. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Author |
: Casper Salmon |
Publisher |
: Nosy Crow |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798887770246 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Count to One by : Casper Salmon
A hilariously irreerent picture book about counting that children will love to outsmart! You know how to count, right? GREAT! There are LOADS of fun things to count in this book. Whales, baboons, rainbows, pyramids . . . There's just rule. You must ONLY ever count to ONE. So don't even about THINK bigger numbers. OK?! Get ready to show off your skills in this fun new counting book! But all is not as it seems . . . is this book really only about counting to 'ONE'? Because there are SO MANY fun things that you could count. But - wait - maybe there's a way to outsmart the book . . . and count all the way up to 100! A fun and interactive read-aloud experience, perfect for fans of B J Novak's international bestseller The Book With No Pictures.
Author |
: Michael Shoulders |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1585361313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781585361311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Count on Us by : Michael Shoulders
This fun colorful, and superbly informative book teaches children about numbers using recognizable places, events, and facts from the state of Tennessee.
Author |
: Dr. Seuss |
Publisher |
: Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0679870814 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780679870814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Did I Ever Tell You how High You Can Count? by : Dr. Seuss
Here's a fun way to count higher and higher. Any kid can count to ten and even twenty. But did I ever tell you how easy it is to count even higher? One thousand and twenty-one, one thousand and twenty-two, one thousand and twenty-three...why stop there? Keep counting. The sky's the limit!
Author |
: Clever Publishing |
Publisher |
: Clever Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1948418401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781948418409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Search & Find Numbers by : Clever Publishing
This colorful multi-purpose padded board book contains Search & Find activities, exercises to learn number and colors, and an encyclopedia - all under one cover! Each spread features unique content that teaches children numbers through activities such as objects to find and questions to answer - all designed to stimulate logical and creative thinking. Children will easily grasp the concepts of numbers and colors, and learn new words as well. The toddler-friendly format with a padded cover, rounded corners, and thick cardboard pages is prefect for early readers.
Author |
: Felicity Brooks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 20 |
Release |
: 2021-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474986765 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474986762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Count to Ten and Back Again by : Felicity Brooks
So begins an enchanting counting journey from one buzzy bee to ten sparkling stars as little children lift the flaps and count what they find underneath. Thanks to the ingenious design of the book, when they have reached ten, they can count back down, closing each flap as they go. Stylish illustrations, novelty features, simple rhyming text and puzzle elements combine to make this a fun, interactive counting book. Helps children recognize number shapes, build vocabulary and learn to count reliably up to 10 and back. Friendly animal characters provide prompts as to what is under each flap.