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Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood: Paths Toward Excellence and Equity
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Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood: Paths Toward Excellence and EquityMathematics Learning in Early Childhood: Paths Toward Excellence and Equity

Early childhood mathematics is vitally important for young children's present and future educational success. Research has demonstrated that virtually all young children have the capability to learn and become competent in mathematics. Furthermore, young children enjoy their early informal experiences with mathematics. Unfortunately, many children's potential in mathematics is not fully realized, especially those children who are economically disadvantaged.
 
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Tags: children, mathematics, young, Early, realized, Childhood
Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor
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Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor Jokes, paradoxes, riddles, and the art of non-sequitur are revealed with great perception and insight in this illuminating account of the relationship between humor and mathematics.
 
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Tags: Humor, humor, between, relationship, mathematics
Russian Mathematics Education: History and World Significance
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Russian Mathematics Education: History and World SignificanceRussian Mathematics Education: History and World Significance

This anthology, consisting of two volumes, is intended to equip background researchers, practitioners and students of international mathematics education with intimate knowledge of mathematics education in Russia.

 
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Tags: education, mathematics, Russian, Russia, knowledge, Significance, education, World
The Sea Island Mathematical Manual: Surveying and Mathematics in Ancient China
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The Sea Island Mathematical Manual: Surveying and Mathematics in Ancient China

The Haidao Suanjing or Sea Island Mathematical Manual, is one of the "Ten Classics" of traditional Chinese mathematics, and its contents demonstrate the high standards of theoretical and mathematical sophistication present in early Chinese surveying theory. The Haidao composed in A.D. 263 by Liu Hui, established the mathematical procedures for much of East Asian surveying activity for the next one thousand years.
 
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Tags: Chinese, mathematics, Haidao, mathematical, contents, mathematical, Chinese, Manual, Mathematical, Island
What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
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What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion

Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several flips have turned up tails? What's Luck Got to Do with It? takes a lively and eye-opening look at the mathematics, history, and psychology of gambling to reveal the most widely held misconceptions about luck. It exposes the hazards of feeling lucky, and uses the mathematics of predictable outcomes to show when our chances of winning are actually good.
 
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Tags: winning, mathematics, hazards, lucky, exposes