Books with author David Adams

Geometric nets provide many hours of fascinating fun! Each net represents the surface of a unique geometric shape. Some of the shapes were described as much as 2500 years ago.A geometric net is a flat drawing that can be cut and folded into a three dimensional figure. For example, six identical squares can be made into a cube. This is because a cube has six sides, all of which are identical squares. Each of the drawings in this book can be cut and folded into a three dimensional geometric object.This book contains 253 geometric nets, a few of which are:Bielongated Triangular AntiprismConeCubeCuboctahedronCylinderDecagonal AntiprismDecagonal PrismDeltoidal IcositetrahedronDieDisdyakis DodecahedronDodecahedron, RegularElongated Pentagonal BipyramidElongated Pentagonal CupolaElongated Pentagonal PyramidElongated Square BipyramidElongated Square PyramidElongated Triangular AntiprismElongated Triangular BipyramidElongated Triangular CupolaElongated Triangular PyramidFrustum of a Decagon PyramidFrustum of a Quadrilateral PyramidFrustum of a Triangular PyramidGreat DodecahedronGreat Stellated DodecahedronGyroelongated Pentagonal PyramidGyroelongated Square BipyramidGyroelongated Square PrismGyroelongated Square PyramidHeptagonal PyramidHeptahedron 4,4,4,3,3,3,3Heptahedron 5,5,5,4,4,4,3Heptahedron 6,6,4,4,4,3,3Hexagonal PrismHexagonal PyramidHexahedron 4,4,4,4,3,3Hexahedron 5,4,4,3,3,3Hexahedron 5,5,4,4,3,3Icosahedron, RegularIcosidodecahedronOblique Square PyramidOctagonal AntiprismOctahedron, RegularPentagonal AntiprismPentagonal BipyramidPentagonal CupolaPentagonal PrismPentagonal PyramidPentagonal RotundaPentagrammic PrismRectangular PyramidRhombic PrismRhombicuboctahedronRight Pentagonal Star PyramidSmall RhombidodecahedronSmall Stellated DodecahedronSnub CubeSnub DodecahedronSquare AntiprismSquare CupolaSquare PyramidSquare TrapezohedronStellated OctahedronTetrahedron - RegularTetrakis HexahedronTriakis OctahedronTriakis TetrahedronTriangular BipyramidTriangular CupolaTriangular PentahedronTriangular PrismTriangular Pyramid, ObliqueTruncated CubeTruncated CuboctahedronTruncated DodecahedronTruncated IcosahedronTruncated IcosidodecahedronTruncated OctahedronTruncated Square TrapezohedronTruncated Tetrahedron

Geometric nets provide many hours of fascinating fun! Each net represents the surface of a unique geometric shape. Some of the shapes were described as much as 2500 years ago.A geometric net is a flat drawing that can be cut and folded into a three dimensional figure. For example, six identical squares can be made into a cube. This is because a cube has six sides, all of which are identical squares. Each of the drawings in this book can be cut and folded into a three dimensional geometric object.This book contains 80 geometric nets:Bielongated Triangular AntiprismConeCubeCuboctahedronCylinderDecagonal AntiprismDecagonal PrismDeltoidal IcositetrahedronDieDisdyakis DodecahedronDodecahedron, RegularElongated Pentagonal BipyramidElongated Pentagonal CupolaElongated Pentagonal PyramidElongated Square BipyramidElongated Square PyramidElongated Triangular AntiprismElongated Triangular BipyramidElongated Triangular CupolaElongated Triangular PyramidFrustum of a Decagon PyramidFrustum of a Quadrilateral PyramidFrustum of a Triangular PyramidGreat DodecahedronGreat Stellated DodecahedronGyroelongated Pentagonal PyramidGyroelongated Square BipyramidGyroelongated Square PrismGyroelongated Square PyramidHeptagonal PyramidHeptahedron 4,4,4,3,3,3,3Heptahedron 5,5,5,4,4,4,3Heptahedron 6,6,4,4,4,3,3Hexagonal PrismHexagonal PyramidHexahedron 4,4,4,4,3,3Hexahedron 5,4,4,3,3,3Hexahedron 5,5,4,4,3,3Icosahedron, RegularIcosidodecahedronOblique Square PyramidOctagonal AntiprismOctahedron, RegularPentagonal AntiprismPentagonal BipyramidPentagonal CupolaPentagonal PrismPentagonal PyramidPentagonal RotundaPentagrammic PrismRectangular PyramidRhombic PrismRhombicuboctahedronRight Pentagonal Star PyramidSmall RhombidodecahedronSmall Stellated DodecahedronSnub CubeSnub DodecahedronSquare AntiprismSquare CupolaSquare PyramidSquare TrapezohedronStellated OctahedronTetrahedron - RegularTetrakis HexahedronTriakis OctahedronTriakis TetrahedronTriangular BipyramidTriangular CupolaTriangular PentahedronTriangular PrismTriangular Pyramid, ObliqueTruncated CubeTruncated CuboctahedronTruncated DodecahedronTruncated IcosahedronTruncated IcosidodecahedronTruncated OctahedronTruncated Square TrapezohedronTruncated Tetrahedron

All Math Words Dictionary is a dictionary designed for students of pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra in middle school and high school. It is written using the four 'C's of math writing:• Concise: Definitions are compact, yet understandable.• Complete: All words and phrases of interest to students of the target classes are included, plus a few just beyond the scope of the target classes. Tables of symbols and notation, formulas, and units of measurement, plus lists of properties of objects give the student all the information needed to understand the concepts and decipher many word problems.• Correct: The definitions have been thoroughly reviewed for mathematical correctness.• Comprehensible: The definitions are written to be understood by students in the target classes. Abundant illustrations aid in understanding.One of the difficulties many students experience in learning math skills has to do with the fact that an entire language has grown up around math. Students that acquire that language are successful in math studies. Students that do not acquire that language have serious problems with mathematics.This dictionary includes:• over 2800 entries• more than 190 mathematical notations defined• in excess of 580 illustrations• greater than 750 formulas, equations and identities• conversion of measures• pronunciation guideThis dictionary is also available in a large print edition, a compact edition, and a dyslexia edition.

In his major new novel, The Friends of Meager Fortune, Richards explores the dying days of the lumber industry in the mid-twentieth century. This is a transfixing love story of betrayal, envy, and sexual jealousy, which builds to a tragically inevitable climax. It is also a devastating portrait of a pre-mechanized time, and a brilliant commemoration of the passing of a world. Rich with all the passion, ambition and almost mythic vision that defines David Adams Richards' work, The Friends of Meager Fortune is a profound and important book about the hands and the heart; about true greatness and true weakness; about the relentlessness of fate and the evil that men and women do. Wise, stark, and without a false word in it, it cements David Adams Richards' claim to be the finest novelist at work in Canada today.

All Math Words Dictionary is designed for students of pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra. It is designed using the four 'C's of math writing: Concise: Definitions are compact, yet understandable. Complete: All words and phrases of interest to targeted students are included, plus a few just beyond the scope of the target classes. Tables of symbols and notation, formulas, and units of measurement, plus lists of properties of objects give the student all the information needed to weld their understanding of the concepts and decipher many problems. Correct: The definitions have been thoroughly reviewed for mathematical and literary correctness. Comprehensible: The definitions are written to be understood by targeted students. Abundant illustrations aid in understanding.One of the difficulties many students experience in learning math skills has to do with the fact that an entire language, both spoken and written, has grown up around math. Students that acquire that language are successful in math studies. Students that do not acquire that language have serious problems with mathematics. This dictionary is designed to aid in the acquisition of the language of math.This dictionary has: over 3000 entries more than 140 notations defined in excess of 790 illustrations IPA pronunciation guide greater than 1400 formulas, equations, definitions, examples, identities and expressions.While teaching high school math, the author, David E. McAdams, noted that some students did not understand even simple math statements, such as “This equation is determinate.” Those students who had not acquired a basic math vocabulary were left behind, becoming frustrated and mentally dropping out of class. Mr. McAdams quickly added vocabulary exercises to his classroom teaching, but found that there were no adequate resources for vocabulary acquisition. All of the online math dictionaries and encyclopedias were either woefully incomplete, or written at a college graduate level.The author began by creating a vocabulary resource for his students, using as a guide the vocabulary actually used in the textbooks the students were using. The list of words swiftly grew, and the task of preparing these resources quickly grew beyond what a full-time teacher could accomplish with all the other activities important to teaching.Mr. McAdams was amazed at the enormous size of the math vocabulary that students must gain to be fluent in math. He took the development of this important resource seriously, and after devoting nine years to its development, has created All Math Words Dictionary. The list of words and phrases to be defined was collected from various textbooks in use in the United States and United Kingdom. Each of these words was carefully researched to find all of the ways the word was used in math classes for pre-algebra, beginning algebra, geometry and intermediate algebra. The definitions were carefully crafted and critically explored to meet the goals of concise, complete, correct and comprehensible. Usefulness of these definitions for non-native English speakers was considered and pronunciation was developed using the IPA. Knowing that a picture sometimes is worth a thousand words, Mr. McAdams added abundant illustrations to assist students in placing words in a visual context.The result of this extensive effort is All Math Words Dictionary, an important tool for math teachers.

Numbers introduces young readers to the basic concepts of numbers: · Numbers tell us how many, how long, how far. · We can tell how much by counting. · There are small numbers and large numbers. · Nothing has a number - zero. · Numbers can be written with digits or letters. · Numbers help us understand our world. Numbers is one of a planned series of books that increase math literacy of primary school students. Introducing students to the words and concepts of mathematics increases their ability to understand the principles of math.