Using Math To Survive In The Wild

This book presents math activities, using information on survival skills.

Explains how math skills are needed to inspect structures for safety and includes math activities using real-life data and facts about roller coasters.

Kathrine Rivers can't get over the seperation of her parents, she is then hit with another blow. Her mother and older brother dies in an accident. She now has to go away and live with her father, she doesn't really have a choice. Changing environment and attending a new school is hard enough already, though she has Sam, her brother's friend who is her watch dog. But he is over protective and won't let her be with the Luke who she has fallen head over heels for. Why doesn't he wants to see her with Luke or any other boy? How much can Kathrine learn from her wild, teenage adventures?

"How Pi Can Save Your Life tackles some frankly ridiculous scenarios with essential, bullet-proof equations that you'll probably never apply in real life. But before you get into the life-saving mathematics, this book will start you off with the essential math that will be the key to taking on the wild scenarios later on in this book. Using only the power of equations, you will be able to: communicate with an alien civilization, save your town from a zombie apocalypse, contain a major oil spill, excavate a fossil that could be a major scientific discovery, perform Hollywood stunts in a blockbuster action film, and more!"--

Contains reproducible worksheet pages and activity sheets using various themes during the school year which link math and literature.

Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.