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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Elementary students around the globe are taught to count using a base-10 number system. We form numbers using the 10 digits of our base-10 system zero through nine. Inside this book, readers discover other number systems people have used throughout history. With a binary system, computers only use two digits 0 and 1. So how does a computer count to 10? Readers will learn the answer inside this book. Also included is a review of hexadecimal numbers,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Understanding charts and graphs. When was the first digital table software released? VisiCalc, the first computer software to create tables, was introduced in 1979. INSIDE, YOU'LL FIND: When different kinds of charts and graphs where first invented ; A timeline and photos--and how computers have changed the way we used charts and graphs; Surprising TRUE facts that will shock and amaze you!" --
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This detailed guide explores the historical development of algorithms and how they are used as a way of teaching computers to work through problems. Named for Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, modern algorithms and functions make programming more efficient. Algorithms are simplified for readers using words, flowcharts, and pseudo code to build a beginning understanding of algorithms and how they are used in our modern, computerized...
Author
Publisher
Prepared by the Bank Street College of Education, Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A young girl describes how her school friend made over a million dollars by creating and marketing a cheaper and better toothpaste.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Description
When sixth-grade mathematical genius Charlie Lewis is recruited to recover moon rocks taken from NASA's vaults, the Whiz Kids enter a paper airplane contest hosted by the suspect's company.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When people start vanishing from a godforsaken trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, two eleven-year-olds investigate using mathematical clues that were hastily planted by their friend Mrs. Clarke before she disappeared.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
A mathematically gifted sixth-grader is recruited by a group of students to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world--and win the big prize.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The mathematical concepts of distance, rate, and time are explored as students partake in their school's annual field day. Readers also learn about proportions, ratios, and cross products. This book includes a discovery activity, connections to science and engineering, and mathematical vocabulary introduction"--
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the man who would become known as the "father of geometry," including the culture and politics of the time in which he lived and the works he became best known for.
15) Saraswati's way
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
16) Solving for m
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Shortly after starting fifth grade, Mika learns that her mother has cancer and uses her math notebook to explore the new changes in her life"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jamie Kelly chronicles her second year of middle school in her diary, where she deals with new teachers, confronts Angelina and the other pretty people in school, and struggles in math class.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's New Books: June 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Henri has attended a special school for her learning disability, dyscalculia, but when she is mainstreamed, she finds herself struggling to balance other parts of her life, and not just in math class--a family feud, drama on the soccer team, and a passion for poetry.
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