Core Skills Math Gr 2

“The more than 40 challenging puzzles…would intrigue younger gifted students and support a problem-of-the-week activity and home practice for older students. Each spread presents a word problem opposite a vibrant illustration that facilitates solutions. The answer section is especially valuable….Young mathematicians will find this book stimulating while teachers will enjoy its many uses.”—ISchool Library Journal./IBRBRIf a bowling club can only get a lane on the fifth Saturday of every month, how many times in a year will it meet? Can you figure out the next number in this row of seemingly unconnected figures (1, 8, 11, 69, 88, 96, 101.)? How many cuts would it take to saw a chessboard into 64 separate pieces? You don’t have to be a mathematician to get hooked on these stimulating braintwisters–to find the solutions, all you need is a good dose of logic or the simplest school arithmetic. To add a little more pleasure to the puzzles, every real-life problem unfolds in small, interesting stories about friends and families as they go about their daily activities. And, they’re all wittily illustrated, too! From calculating the price of lollipops to working out the size of a pond in a village park, this is pure number fun!BRBRMore than 40 math puzzles for people who like to rack their brains. These mind games are challenging, but it doesn’t take advanced calculus to solve them. Each interesting story about everyday life poses a stimulating question for you to answer. Who is the thief from the physics study group who stole the teacher’s wallet? On a trip to the monkey cages, how many peanuts did the children have in their bag? Find out inside…BRBR

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Offering an entire grade 2 curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized by subject area with lessons in reading, writing, spelling, math, citizenship, and science. Perfect as a home schooling resource or as a supplement to school-based learning, this comprehensive workbook helps ensure students success across key curriculum areas. Featuring: -Sequential organization for ease of use -Tips on study skills -Special section of teaching suggestions -Thorough index -Review and assessment tools

Finally there is a book that can be used to prepare for the math portions of any of the standardized tests for college admission. Whether preparing for the SAT, ACT, one of the SAT subject tests or any combination, this one book provides all the math you need to know. It clearly identifies topics that are common to all of the tests, along with topics that are needed for each particular test. Written by a math tutor with years of experience preparing students to excel on the standardized tests, this book covers topics from pre-algebra through pre-calculus. Each topic has a lesson, homework problems, and solutions. When combined with the practice tests that the author recommends, this book gives you everything you need to achieve your goals.

Emergent-reader nonfiction takes on a whole new face! Consistent print placement, predictable text patterns and strong picture clues make this series ideal for emergent readers.

Key aptitude tests, such as the PSAT, SAT, and GRE, include a quantitative comparison section within the math portion of the exam, so for college-bound students, mastering this question type is essential for getting into their school of choice. What makes this book different than other math practice books? It’s simple–this volume contains only questions that ask which column contains the item of greater value, if the values are the same, or if the value cannot be determined by the information given.

The dozen short stories in Updike’s new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero moves as an adolescent, the exurban New England of adult camaraderie and sexual mischief, and the New York City of artistic ambition and taunting glamor. To these tales, the author adds Rabbit Remembered , a novella-length sequel to his quartet of novels about Harry Rabbit Angstrom. From the Publisher A highly unusual book from Updike: twelve short stories, coupled with the sequel of the book’s subtitle: a novella that closes the Rabbit quartet. The short stories are in the classic Updike mode, set mostly in exurbia of the sixties, in what seemed then a revolutionary time that taught us the high moral value of copulation, and we were slow to give up on an activity so pleasureable and healthy . The stories are reflective and take on a particular poignancy; memory is selective and every detail is relished. Among these dozen gems are two masterpieces, both of which appeared in the New Yorker and were much talked about and greatly admired. One is about the narrator’s father, about an only son’s fear that somehow his father would fall from grace, would lose his job as a revered high school math teacher, and that the family would be ruined — a very real fear at the height of the depression. The other is a haunting story called The Cats, about a son’s return to the Pennsylvania farm of his youth after his mother’s death only to find the place literally overrun with the stray cats that his mother had fed, and the moral dilemma this poses. The second half of the book is a wonderful novella-length sequel to his four Rabbit novels. We find out what happened to Janice (she married again), to son Nelson (a social worker temporarily separated from his wife and children), and we meet the illegitimate daughter, the fruit of Rabbit’s first dalliance, who inserts herself into the Angstrom clan. All the strands are artfully woven together and Rabbit is finally laid to rest. The setting is, as before, the area of Brewer, Pennsylvania; the time, the last months of 1999. A brilliant Updikeanfinale to a saga that we hate to let go of.

Welcome to a collection of the most valuable and timeless articles from the essential reference series for game developers. Best of Game Programming Gems combines the greatest cutting-edge, ready-to-use techniques contributed by industry experts to volumes 1-6 of the Game Programming Gems series. Each article was carefully chosen by the editors and compiled into one best-of-the-best volume in an effort to share forty-nine timeless gems of game programming wisdom with you and to save you time and effort with a plethora of reliable methods to add to your developeras tool box. The articles are organized into six sections covering the topics of general information, math and physics, artificial intelligence, graphics, networking, and audio.Whether you are new to game development or a practiced veteran, youare sure to find inspiration and insight to make more entertaining and satisfying games in Best of Game Programming Gems.

The key to your child’s educational success is in your hands Knowledge Essentials is a remarkable series that will benefit children of all abilities and learning styles. . . . I highly recommend it for all parents who want to make a difference in their children’s education. — Michael Gurian, author of Boys and Girls Learn Differently and The Wonder of Boys Finally, a book about teaching young children by somebody who knows her stuff! — LouAnne Johnson, author of Dangerous Minds and The Queen of Education In this new addition to the Knowledge Essentials series, Preschool Success shows you how to enrich your child’s first classroom experience and take an active role in your preschooler’s education. Preschool Success is filled with helpful advice and offers information about: What your child is learning at school and the educational standards to expect in preschool-level reading and writing readiness, math, science, and social studies— as well as the developmental skills expected of your preschooler Your child’s learning style— visual, auditory, or kinesthetic— and how it affects the way your child learns and processes information Dozens of easy-to-do activities designed to help your child meet specific learning requirements Environmental learning sections that identify learning opportunities in the everyday world Methods and checklists to assess your child’s progress The developmental and social changes expected of your preschooler as well as information on how to determine readiness to move up to kindergarten Recommendations of age-appropriate books and software that will enhance learning Give your child the gift of your time— andhelp him or her get the most out of school with Preschool Success.