Why do your chances of winning the lottery increase if you buy your ticket on Friday? Why do traffic lights always seem to be red when you're in a hurry? Is bad luck just chance, or can it be explained? The intriguing answers to these and other questions about the curiosities of everyday life can be found in this delightfully irreverent and highly informative book. Why Do Buses Come in Threes? explains how math and the laws of probability are constantly...

"In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to...

"In Sam Solves, beginning readers follow along as Sam solves math word problems by acting them out using everyday objects and by drawing pictures. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text engage beginning readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience about a key math concept. A supplementary quiz asks readers to solve a two-part word problem using both objects and drawings, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary....

With Practical Shop Math, you'll discover simple, but non-condescending approaches for everything from adding fractions and decimals to laying out ellipses, octagons, and other shapes that will expand your design repertoire. In addition, Practical Shop Math focuses on the things that you think should be simple, but can drive you nuts: tasks such as enlarging grid patterns, determining miter angles for polygons, dividing angles and arcs, calculating...

Covers the basic in mathematics, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, decimals, division, averages, measurements, and discounts.

"Math isn't just something you learn in school. It's an important part of the world around you. What's better than baking a yummy pizza? Using math skills while you cook! Readers explore concepts such as measuring, adding, dividing, and counting in this cooking adventure"-- Provided by publisher.

Elmo and Tell play the great numbers game.