Mathematics 2021: Your Daily Epsilon of Math
12-Month Calendar - January 2021 Through December 2021
Published on 11. August 2020
Other
Calendar
24 pages
978-1-63106-698-6 (ISBN)
Description
Keep your mind sharp all year long with Mathematics 2021: Your Daily Epsilon of Math, a 12" x 12" wall calendar featuring 12 images relating to math concepts!
Let mathematicians Rebecca Rapoport and Dean Chung tickle the left side of your brain by providing you with a math challenge for every day of the year. The solution is always the date; but the fun lies in figuring how to arrive at the answer, and possibly discovering more than one method of arriving there.
Some of the most tricky problems require only middle school math applied cleverly. With entry-level algebra, word problems, math puns, and interesting math definitions thrown into the mix, this calendar should intrigue you for the whole year.
End the year with more brains than you had when it began with Mathematics 2021: Your Daily Epsilon of Math.
Let mathematicians Rebecca Rapoport and Dean Chung tickle the left side of your brain by providing you with a math challenge for every day of the year. The solution is always the date; but the fun lies in figuring how to arrive at the answer, and possibly discovering more than one method of arriving there.
Some of the most tricky problems require only middle school math applied cleverly. With entry-level algebra, word problems, math puns, and interesting math definitions thrown into the mix, this calendar should intrigue you for the whole year.
End the year with more brains than you had when it began with Mathematics 2021: Your Daily Epsilon of Math.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 305 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-63106-698-6 (9781631066986)
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Persons
Rebecca Rapoport holds degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and Michigan State. From her first job out of college, as one of the pioneers of Harvard's Internet education offerings, she has been passionate about encouraging her love for math in others. As an early contributor to both retail giant Amazon.com and Akamai Technologies, the number one firm in cloud computing, Rapoport played a key role in several elements of the Internet revolution. She then returned to her first love, education, as an innovator of new methods to introduce children and adults to the critically important world of STEAM education as COO of an enrichment center dedicated to helping kids explore the creative side of science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and is currently developing and teaching innovative math curricula in the Boston area. Rapoport is also the co-author of Math Games Lab for Kids (published by Quarry Books), a book of fun, hands-on math activities designed to introduce elementary and middle-school students to several areas of higher math; and the calendars Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2021,? Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2020, Mathematics 2019: Your Daily Epsilon of Math, and The Mathematics Calendar 2018, all published by Rock Point. She has an Erdoes number of 2.