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This book teaches students how to analyze patterns though cryptography. Illustrates and explains how use a cipher to encrypt and decrypt simple substitution ciphers, poly-alphabetic ciphers and transposition ciphers. Includes famous examples of encrypted messages about and by figures like Julius Caesar and Queen Elizabeth I.
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This book uses the stock market as basis for explaining how ratios, decimals, fractions, and percentages work in a real-world context. Explains the basics of a market world with student-friendly terminology, alongside various word problems accompanied by detailed explanations and illustrative diagrams and photographs.
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This book explores and explains how to calculate length, weight, and volume through the consideration of bridges around the world. Includes math problems involving famous arch bridges, beam bridges, suspension bridges, and cable-stayed bridges, in addition to relevant, historical information about each bridge.
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Budding art enthusiasts will learn how to use perspective to represent three-dimensional objects. This guidebook illustrates the concepts of horizon and vanishing point through famous paintings of the Renaissance. Students are given the instructions to create a "Renaissance" artwork of their own.
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Students will learn about one of the most amazing trade routes in human history. This book uses details about the Silk Road to explain how to use map scale to measure distances. It includes photographs of Silk Road sections, annotated maps with scale explanations, and a concise history of each Great Age. Interesting details about fabrics, goods, and knowledge transported during each time period are also shared.
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This volume uses the Census categories of population, gender, and age as basis for illustrating basic concepts about line graphs and charts. Includes a multitude of charts that display interesting and relevant facts about the America's changing population as far back as the 1800's.
10) The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: understanding the concepts of parallel and perpendicular
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This book provides students with a foundational and concise history of architecture and goes on to highlight the concepts of parallel and perpendicular through focusing on the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes comparative models of architecture, a breakdown of Wright's houses with illustrative, geometrical line drawings, and a discussion of the famous Fallingwater house.
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This inspiring book teaches students how to recognize, interpret, and mimic patterns through poetic form and meter. Students are shown how basic patterns can take shape in haiku and limericks through rhyme and form. They will learn to interpret the meter of poetry through understanding stressed and unstressed syllables and poetic feet. Includes several annotated sonnet excerpts from Shakespeare and a concise glossary of relevant literary terms.
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This stellar expedition focuses on different aspects of the solar system to illustrate which strategies would be most efficient for problem solving. Uses interesting examples to relay concepts, such as notions of distance from planet to planet, conversion of weight and surface gravity, and the measurement of planet diameter.
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This book introduces basic addition and subtraction problems through the chronological overview of exploration in North America. Includes artifacts such as an excerpt from Champlain's book about his voyage, in addition to an early map of New Amsterdam.
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This mesmerizing volume illustrates patterns and symmetry through the consideration of famous optical artists, Islamic art, and the examination of prominent optical paintings. Includes photographs of Islamic mosques that illustrate tessellations, Maurit Escher's "Liberation," and an extensive glossary of shape terminology.
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This book illustrates how to understand and represent numbers in the billions through learning about the Hubble Space telescope. Includes a concise explanation of how telescopes operate, a brief history of telescopes, along with colorful photographs accompanied by word problems and explanations.
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Students will learn to convert distance measurements into metric units while taking a trip to some of the greatest natural wonders. As they read about the Great Barrier Reef, Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest, and Victoria Falls, they will consider the geographical greatness of these locations and learn how to convert these naturally-occurring physical feats into units of metric measurement.
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This book illustrates the uses of the communicative, associative, and distributive properties of Math through the context of climbing Mount Everest. Supplying interesting and relevant information, this book explains and urges students to solve problems such as, "How much oxygen will be needed for a climb?" and "How many miles per hour will the wind be traveling at the summit of the mountain?" Provides an inquisitive relationship with math concepts,...
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This book uses the real-life example of the Biosphere 2 to present students with relevant word problems and detailed explanations. Students will learn how to deduce what operations need to be performed in order to find a solution and/or monitor data in the Biosphere.
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