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Learn to: * Master maths with more than 2,000 practice questions *
Add, subtract, multiply and divide with confidence * Work with
decimals, fractions and percentages * Size up weights and measures
Fun, friendly coaching and all the practice you need to tackle
maths problems with confidence and ease In his popular Basic Maths
For Dummies, professional maths tutor Colin Beveridge proved that
he could turn anyone even the most maths-phobic person into a
natural-born number cruncher. In this book he supplies more of his
unique brand of maths-made-easy coaching, plus 2,000 practice
problems to help you master what you learn. Whether you're prepping
for a numeracy test or an employability exam, thinking of returning
to school, or you'd just like to be one of those know-it-alls who
says, 'Oh, that's easy!' about any maths problem that comes your
way, this book is for you. *Master basic arithmetic, fast in no
time, solving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
problems will seem as easy as tying your shoes *Face down fractions
you'll never again feel shy around fractions, decimals, percentages
and ratios *Juggle weights and measures like a pro whether it's a
question of how much it weighs, how long (or far) it is, or how
much it costs, you'll never be at a loss for an answer *Make shapes
your playthings circles, squares, triangles and rectangles you'll
measure them, draw them and manipulate them with ease Open the book
and find: *2,000 pencil-and-paper practice problems * The keys to
mastering addition, subtraction, multiplication and division * The
lowdown on fractions, decimals and percentages * Basic geometry
made easy * How to handle weights, measures and money problems *
How to read charts, tables and graphs at a glance
The book contains 9 chapters out of which Chapters (1-2) deals with
the "Point Estimation", (3) Interval estimation, (4-5) Test of
hypothesis, (6) Sequential statistics, (7) Decision theory, (8)
Linear estimation and (9) Theory of ordered statistics.
In today’s data-driven world, maths is a weapon wielded by banks,
insurance companies, tech firms, and government agencies. These
organizations use sophisticated algorithms to calculate odds, make
predictions, uncover patterns, manage risk, and optimize actions. And
they treat you as another number to crunch along the way.
Robin Hood Maths explains the mathematical methods these companies and
agencies use to manipulate and profit off of you. It’s easy to assume
these algorithms are too complex to even understand, let alone use for
yourself. But maths professor Noah Giansiracusa makes the compelling
case that anyone can use these same methods, without any special
training or advanced knowledge. He offers simple hacks and streamlined
formulas for beating the number crunchers at their own game.
With Professor Giansiracusa as your guide, you’ll learn how to use
maths to rescue your credit score and make better investments, take
control of your social media, and reclaim agency over the decisions you
make every day. In a society designed to take from the poor and give to
the rich, maths has the potential to be a powerful democratizing force.
Robin Hood Maths gives you the tools you need to think for yourself,
act in your own best interest, and thrive.
The Digital Twin Paradigm for Smarter Systems and Environments: The
Industry Use Cases, Volume 117, the latest volume in the Advances
in Computers series, presents detailed coverage of new advancements
in computer hardware, software, theory, design and applications.
Chapters vividly illustrate how the emerging discipline of digital
twin is strategically contributing to various digital
transformation initiatives. Specific chapters cover Demystifying
the Digital Twin Paradigm, Digital Twin Technology for "Smarter
Manufacturing", The Fog Computing/ Edge Computing to leverage
Digital Twin, The industry use cases for the Digital Twin idea,
Enabling Digital Twin at the Edge, The Industrial Internet of
Things (IIOT), and much more.
This second edition of the International Handbook of Mathematics
Teacher Education builds on and extends the topics/ideas in the
first edition while maintaining the themes for each of the volumes.
Collectively, the authors look back beyond and within the last 10
years to establish the state-of-the-art and continuing and new
trends in mathematics teacher and mathematics teacher educator
education, and look forward regarding possible avenues for
teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and policy makers to
consider to enhance and/or further investigate mathematics teacher
and teacher educator learning and practice, in particular. The
volume editors provide introductions to each volume that highlight
the subthemes used to group related chapters, which offer
meaningful lenses to see important connections within and across
chapters. Readers can also use these subthemes to make connections
across the four volumes, which, although presented separately,
include topics that have relevance across them since they are all
situated in the common focus regarding mathematics teachers. Volume
2, Tools and Processes in Mathematics Teacher Education, describes
and analyze various promising tools and processes, from different
perspectives, aimed at facilitating the mathematics teacher
learning and development. It provides insights of how mathematics
teacher educators think about and approach their work with
teachers. Thus, as the second volume in the series, it broadens our
understanding of the mathematics teacher and their learning and
teaching.
Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of resources for
mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social
justice into their classrooms. The book begins with a series of
essays from instructors experienced in integrating social justice
themes into their pedagogy; these essays contain political and
pedagogical motivations as well as nuts-and-bolts teaching advice.
The heart of the book is a collection of fourteen classroom-tested
modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for
the college mathematics classroom. The mathematical tools and
techniques used are relevant to a wide variety of courses including
college algebra, math for the liberal arts, calculus, differential
equations, discrete mathematics, geometry, financial mathematics,
and combinatorics. The social justice themes include human
trafficking, income inequality, environmental justice,
gerrymandering, voting methods, and access to education. The volume
editors are leaders of the national movement to include social
justice material into mathematics teaching. Gizem Karaali is
Associate Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She is one of
the founding editors of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and
an associate editor for The Mathematical Intelligencer and
Numeracy; she also serves on the editorial board of the MAA's Carus
Mathematical Monographs. Lily Khadjavi is Associate Professor of
Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University and is a past co-chair
of the Infinite Possibilities Conference. She has served on the
boards of Building Diversity in Science, the Barbara Jordan-Bayard
Rustin Coalition, and the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus.
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