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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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540L
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"It's time to clean Adi's room! If only a computer could do it for her! That gives Adi and her best friend Gabi an idea-think like a coder! These scientific thinkers put on their computer coding caps and make cleaning up a snap by sorting with variables!"--
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"The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety...
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1060L
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"Have you watched videos online today? Did you post photographs on social media? Did you upload your English essay to Google docs? All of these are questions about data! ...Explore the definition of data and learn how essential it is to our everyday lives. ...Learn about the history of data, the transition from paper to computers, and the role that search engines such as Google play in handling data. By making connections between the relationships...
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In this exciting math reader, Vikram Patel wants to hire a game designer who will help his company create cutting-edge games. The first contender for the position is Zak, a master videogame designer and architect of shapes. The other competitor is Posie, an artist who is pushing the limits of virtual reality. Students will learn about 2-D and 3-D shapes as they are engaged in reading about this high-stakes competition. This text builds math content...
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How can human-level artificial intelligence be achieved? What are the potential consequences? This book describes a research approach toward achieving human-level AI, combining a doctoral thesis and research papers by the author.
The research approach, called TalaMind, involves developing an AI system that uses a 'natural language of thought' based on the unconstrained syntax of a language such as English; designing the system as a collection of...
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Warwick Tucker is professor of mathematics and principal investigator for the Computer-Aided Proofs in Analysis (CAPA) Group at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has been honored with several awards, including the European Mathematical Society's Prize for Distinguished Contributions in Mathematics, the R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval Analysis, and the Swedish Mathematical Society's Wallenberg Prize.
A comprehensive, self-contained...
7) Splunk Certified Study Guide: Prepare for the User, Power User, and Enterprise Admin Certifications
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Make your Splunk certification easier with this exam study guide that covers the User, Power User, and Enterprise Admin certifications. This book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the Splunk User and Power User certifications starting with how to install Splunk, Splunk Processing Language (SPL), field extraction, field aliases and macros, and Splunk tags. You will be able to make your own data model and prepare an advanced dashboard...
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Sep Kamvar is a consulting assistant professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University. From 2003 to 2007, he was the engineering lead for personalization at Google. He is the founder and former CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search engine acquired by Google in 2003.
This book lays out the theoretical groundwork for personalized search and reputation management, both on the Web and in peer-to-peer and social networks. Representing much...
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Engineers and scientists who want to avoid insidious errors in their computer-assisted calculations will welcome this concise guide to trouble-shooting. Real Computing Made Real offers practical advice on detecting and removing bugs. It also outlines techniques for preserving significant figures, avoiding extraneous solutions, and finding efficient iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations. Those who compute with real numbers (for example,...
10) Coding
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"This book introduces young readers to math concepts about coding"--
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Do you already know the basics of using Scratch?
Project Code will help you take those skills and build on them to turn your stories into amazing interactive adventures! This book will build on your Scratch skills to animate and bring your story to life. Try ready-made blocks of code to produce simple projects and use them as inspiration and models for your own ideas.
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Wolfram discusses the history of computation from its earliest beginnings to current applications and the emergence of computable knowledge. Notable figures include, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, John von Neumann, and many others.
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This book offers a deep dive into computer science integration, providing guidelines for designing elementary CS/math curricula through case studies and practical examples. How-to books related to computer science (CS) and teaching CS in K-12 environments are often either step-by-step guides or reference books, with little or no connection to pedagogy. By contrast, Coding + Math offers the analytical foundation teachers need to inform their practice,...
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This is a book for art lovers, designers, and art-loving techies everywhere. A coffee-table art book filled with lush art plates that speak to the senses, the fractal images within reflect the beauty and mystery of the natural world, and demonstrate the power of computer-aided design in creating original works of art.
What is a fractal? A fractal is essentially a never-ending, repeating pattern. Fractals reflect the art of chaos, as seen in crystal...
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Through detailed lessons and examples, discover how to integrate technology in K-5 math to amplify and enhance your mathematics teaching and drive student learning.
Instead of drill-and-practice apps and worksheets, what if technology enabled exploration of math concepts? Instead of screens for disconnected individual learning, what if technology fostered mathematical discourse and collaboration? Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching...
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This guide to enabling middle-grade mathematics teachers to use Microsoft Excel in the classroom focuses primarily on concepts taught in grades 4–10, with some pre-algebra lessons for higher grades. Including files available for downloading to create custom math worksheets, build self-grading interactive spreadsheets, and use Excel to demonstrate charts and Cartesian math, this handbook provides fun examples of probability, solving equations, magic...
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Instead of drill-and-practice apps and worksheets, what if technology enabled exploration of math concepts? Instead of screens for disconnected individual learning, what if technology fostered mathematical discourse and collaboration? Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching mathematics, what if we used technology to differentiate to meet students' diverse needs?
Technology has the power and potential to support the teaching and learning...
18) Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction
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Paul J. Nahin is the author of many best-selling popular math books, including Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, Digital Dice, Chases and Escapes, Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula, When Least Is Best, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
More stimulating mathematics puzzles from bestselling author Paul Nahin
How do technicians repair broken communications cables at...
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It is usual that existing material on computer aided geometric design oscillates between over-simplification for programmers and practitioners and over formalism for scientific or academic readers. The first type of publications suppresses the taxonomy and properties of the mathematical concepts discussed when seeking straightforward notation and procedures. The second type of materials in thorough in the mathematical concepts at the expense of increasingly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
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"Best friends Adi and Gabi love to play with Adi's toy train. Round and round it goes-choo choo! Watching it loop the track gives the girls an idea. These scientific thinkers use their computer coding knowledge to put the train to work!"--
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