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Great courses (DVD) Math in nature 2 McGraw-Hill "Demystified" series The Math CodeFlatt, Lizann
Summary: As young readers journey into the natural world, they will discover that numbers, patterns, shapes -- and much more! -- can be found by observing everyday plants and animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLASummary: "Pass the sushi! In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by."--Container.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Gamewright 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 150Cohen, Ben
Summary: "For fans of Charles Duhigg, Philip Tetlock and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 123 COHSummary: In Hans Rosling's hands, global trends in health and economics come to vivid life and the big picture of global development snaps into sharp focus. In this TEDTalk, Rosling debunks myths about the so-called developing world with credible statistics illustrated by visualization software he developed. The software's animations transform facts and figures into moving bubbles and flowing curves...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Mlodinow, Leonard
Summary: An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 MLOSummary: For a few weeks every year starlings migrate, creating shifting, synchronized formations of nearly a million birds that flow across the sky like a well-choreographed dance. How does each bird anticipate where its neighbor will fly? Studying data from Google allows analysts to predict flu outbreaks-so why can't weather be forecast more than a few days in advance? And if winning a game of Rock,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Levinson, Horace C. (Horace Clifford)
Summary: In simple, nontechnical language, the author explores the fundamentals governing chance and applies them to statistics relevant to sports, government, business, and other fields. Part I concerns the theory of probability, with discussions of superstitions, fallacies, betting odds, the law of mathematical expectation, and specific applications of probability to poker, roulette, lotteries, dice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVStarbird, Michael.
Summary: 12 lectures about probability delivered by Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 519.2 WhatSummary: Emma's band wants to post a music video on YouTube, but they aren't sure which of their songs should be featured. Emma's best friend helps them choose by using Facebook contacts to conduct a survey, exploring the concepts of qualitative and quantitative data along the way. Viewers learn how to sample, present, and analyze data, generate histograms, frequency tables, stem and leaf plots,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Brookhart, Clint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519 BROSummary: In this TEDTalk, Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics - and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. Donnelly is an expert in probability theory who applies statistical methods to genetic data. He's also an expert on DNA analysis, and an advocate for sensible statistical analysis in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bluman, Allan G.
Contents: Basic concepts -- Sample spaces -- Addition rules -- Multiplication rules -- Odds and expectation -- Counting rules -- Binomial distribution -- Other probability distributions -- Normal distribution -- Simulation -- Game theory -- Actuarial science -- Appendix Bayes' Theorem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 BLUGibilisco, Stan.
Summary: "Self-Teaching guide ... fundamental guide to the concepts of statistics and probability ... problem solving, drawings, tables, quizzes and a 'final exam'."
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2004
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Summary: "An eye-opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand unveils his groundbreaking argument that extraordinarily rare events are in fact commonplace. Weaving together fascinating new ways to think about chance, Hand highlights his "law of near enough," the "look elsewhere effect,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014