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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments by Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton, and other mathematicians, this engaging resource addresses more than 1,000 questions related to mathematics. Organized into chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format, this reference provides clear and concise...
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Bedtime math volume 3
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In Bedtime Math, math and fun facts combine for one wacky and wild adventure! Now kids can discover the truth behind all their favorite things: marshmallows, Coca-Cola, astronaut ice cream, and more!"--
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Highlights Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Focusing on numerous branches of science sprinkled throughout exciting chapters like Everyday Technology, Amazing Animals, Wild Weather and many others, kids keep entertained and excited as they flip through the highly visual, full-color pages of this how-to book that will elevate their collection of STEM books. Kids can enjoy hours of hands-on fun as they discover how things are made by creating clouds in jars, building model dinosaurs out of marshmallows,...