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Aurelio Ángel Baldor de la Vega (October 22, 1906, Havana, Cuba – April 2, 1978, Miami) was a Cuban mathematician, educator and lawyer. [1] Baldor is the author of a secondary school algebra textbook, titled Álgebra, used throughout the Spanish-speaking world and published for the first time in 1941.
Addison-Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra is an 812-page-long algebra textbook published in 1996. [1] The lead authors are Randall I. Charles and Alba González Thompson; three other authors and ten program conceptualizers are credited on the title page. [ 1 ]
In addition to Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, Scholastic is known for its school book clubs and book fairs, classroom magazines such as Scholastic News and Science World, and popular book series: Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, Horrible Histories, Captain Underpants, Animorphs, The Baby-Sitters Club, and I Spy ...
Evelyn Nelson (1943–1987), Canadian researcher in universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science; Gail S. Nelson (born 1959), American mathematician, textbook author, and editor-in-chief of the MAA "Problem Books" Nancy Neudauer, American matroid theorist known for her work in mathematical outreach in Africa and South America
Escalante found new employment at Hiram W. Johnson High School in Sacramento, California. [9] At the height of Escalante's success, Garfield graduates were entering the University of Southern California in such great numbers that they outnumbered all the other high schools in the working-class East Los Angeles region combined.
Topics introduced in the New Math include set theory, modular arithmetic, algebraic inequalities, bases other than 10, matrices, symbolic logic, Boolean algebra, and abstract algebra. [2] All of the New Math projects emphasized some form of discovery learning. [3] Students worked in groups to invent theories about problems posed in the textbooks.
Textbook of arithmetic published in 1678 by John Hawkins, who claimed to have edited manuscripts left by Edward Cocker, who had died in 1676. This influential mathematics textbook used to teach arithmetic in schools in the United Kingdom for over 150 years.
Roland "Ron" Edwin Larson (born October 31, 1941) is a professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Pennsylvania. [1] He is best known for being the author of a series of widely used mathematics textbooks ranging from middle school through the second year of college.