A fantastic collection of problems for anyone who is curious about how human language works! These books take serious scientific questions and present them in a fun, accessible way. Readers exercise their logical thinking capabilities while learning about a wide range of human languages, linguistic phenomena, and computational models. This book brings together, for the first time in one collection, the best English-language problems created for students competing in the Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
The weekly themes in Grade 6+ include many topics such as buses, birthdays, houseplants, pet store, garage sale, and weather. Math skills practiced include: multidigit addition and subtraction 1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication 1-, 2-, and 3-digit divisors time and money fractions decimals and percents reading and interpreting graphs and charts average, mode, range area and perimeter and volume logic linear measurement weight and capacity.
The How -To Handbook: Shortcuts and Solutions for the Problems of Everyday Life
Whether you plan on spending your life playing sports, serving clients, running businesses, or flying to the moon, there are certain things that everyone just has to know how to do: unjamming a jar, for instance, fixing a flat tire, and removing a particularly embarrassing stain. They may seem simple in retrospect, but you don’t have to turn all your laundry pink more than once before you learn that it’s best just to get things right the first time.
