Number puzzles spatial/visual puzzles cryptograms Sudoku Kokuro logic puzzles & word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math & problem-solving skills to elementary & middle school students. In these two new collections puzzle master Terry Stickels provides puzzles & brain games that range from simple to challenging & are organized by grade level & National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) content areas. Each book offers over 300 brain games that will help students learn core math concepts & develop critical thinking skills. The books include a wide range of puzzle types & cover a variety of math topics from fractions & geometry to probability & algebra. ...

Mathematical Biology is a richly illustrated textbook in an exciting & fast growing field. Providing an in-depth look at the practical use of math modeling it features exercises throughout that are drawn from a variety of bioscientific disciplines
- population biology developmental biology physiology epidemiology & evolution among others. It maintains a consistent level throughout so that graduate students can use it to gain a foothold into this dynamic research area.
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Mathematical Games" is one of three titles in the " Mad About Maths" series. This is a bright colourful series designed to help Key Stage 2 children (7-11s) develop their number skills & mathematical confidence mainly by learning at home in support of their National Curriculum classroom studies. Each book is packed with mathematical puzzles & games &

Includes:: 12 pages of press-out pieces to use with the activities (counters board games etc). The books are fun & stimulating & turn a subject which many children find slightly forbidding into something which is accessible & enjoyable. Generally speaking the activities are designed for small groups as well as individuals & so encourage social as well as individual play."

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This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year Ph D course in mathematics for economists & as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained rigorous treatment of most of the concepts & techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro & macroeconomics. The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces differential calculus comparative statics convexity static optimization dynamical systems & dynamic optimization. The book

Includes:: a large number of applications to standard economic models & over two hundred fully worked-out problems.

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The third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics & many worked examples it contains over 800 exercises. New st&-alone chapters give a systematic account of the special functions of physical science cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables & give an introduction to quantum operators. Further tabulations of relevance in statistics & numerical integration have been added. In this edition half of the exercises are provided with hints & answers & in a separate manual available to both students & their teachers complete worked solutions. The remaining exercises have no hints answers or worked solutions & can be used for unaided homework; full solutions are available to instructors on a password-protected web site www.cambridge.org/9780521679718. ...

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler of Bell Labs dozens of elegant intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain but without this book devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary but your ability to construct a mathematical proof will be severly tested--even if you are a professional mathematician. For the truly adventurous there is even a chapter on unsolved puzzles. ...

In their bestselling MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS WITH APPLICATIONS premiere authors Dennis Wackerly William Mendenhall & Richard L. Scheaffer present a solid foundation in statistical theory while conveying the relevance & importance of the theory in solving practical problems in the real world. The authors use of practical applications & excellent exercises helps you discover the nature of statistics & understand its essential role in scientific research. ...

Mathematical concepts & theories underpin much of the physical sciences & engineering. Yet maths is a subject that many students find challenging & even intimidating
- despite it being so central to their field of study. Mathematical Techniques provides a complete course in mathematics covering all the essential topics with which a physical sciences or engineering student should be familiar. By breaking the subject into small modular chapters the book introduces & builds on concepts in a progressive carefully-layered way
- always with an emphasis on how to use the power of maths to best effect rather than on theoretical proofs of the maths presented. With a huge array of end of chapter problems & new self-check questions the fourth edition of Mathematical Techniques provides extensive opportunities for students to build their confidence in the best way possible: by using the maths for themselves. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre features the following materials for all users of the book: * Figures from the book in electronic format ready to download * A downloadable solutions manual featuring worked solutions to all end of chapter problems * Mathematica-based programs relating to the Projects featured at the end of the book

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From crime figures to health scares election polls to stock market forecasts numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos travels through the pages of an average newspaper revealing how mathematics is at the heart of the articles we read everyday
- even horoscopes & the sports pages
- & how often they mislead us. By understanding simple concepts such as probability chaos theory & game theory you'll be able to see through faulty statistics stock market forecasters & conspiracy theorists
- & make the figures truly add up.


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G. H. Hardy was one of this centurys finest mathematical thinkers renowned among his contemporaries as a real mathematician.. .the purest of the pure. He was also as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword unorthodox eccentric radical ready to talk about anything. This apology written in 1940 offers a brilliant & engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first published Graham Greene hailed it alongside Henry Jamess notebooks as the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist. C. P. Snows Foreword gives sympathetic & witty insights into Hardys life with its rich store of anecdotes concerning his collaboration with the brilliant Indian mathematician Ramanujan his idiosyncrasies & his passion for cricket. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics & of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times. ...