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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

A grouchy ladybug, looking for a fight, challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength. Brilliantly illustrated in collage, the pages vary in size with the size of the animal. Brilliantly illustrated in collage, the pages vary in size with the size of the animal. Concepts concerning time, natural cycles, and relative size and questions about manners and social behavior are dealt with in a humorous story about a bad-tempered, boastful...

"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...

One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies, but stops to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, cause them to lose both time and food in the end.

Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.

Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world--its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports...

A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.

Simple text explains fractions, what they are, and how to use them.

"Somewhere along the line, you fell out of love with numbers. Simple math became difficult, and difficult math became impossible. But fear not, future math whiz -- you are holding the solution in your hands! Conquer your math anxiety forever with the easy-to-follow lessons and practical exercises of Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies."--Back cover.