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Artificial Intelligence Book:
In "Adventures in AI and Machine Learning," you will explore the fascinating realm of technology shaping our future in real time. This book is your passport to an exciting world where you'll uncover the magic of AI and ML and learn how it's already a part of your daily life. This book is specially designed for middle and high school students and their parents.
Math in the Real World Series Books
Discover How Mathematics Shapes the World Around Us
The Math in the Real World series is a collection of engaging, accessible books that show how math explains, powers, and shapes the world we live in. Whether you're a curious student, a parent sparking dinner table conversations, or a teacher seeking creative enrichment material, this series proves that math isn’t just something you learn—it’s something you live.
Each book dives into a fascinating question from real life and uncovers the math behind it. There are no contrived word problems or complicated calculations here—just exciting ideas, surprising connections, and big-picture thinking. From secret codes and weather predictions to bees, bubbles, and music, this series opens young minds to the creative and essential role math plays in nature, technology, and everyday life.
Key Features
Real-Life Applications
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Each book focuses on a compelling real-world scenario that sparks curiosity—no contrived word problems and complicated calculations here.
Math That Matters
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Concepts are grounded in relevance and expose children to a varied breadth of real-world applications of math.
Built for All Learners
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Every book in the series is meant to inspire through clear explanations, engaging visuals, and meaningful explanations of how math appears everywhere.
Interdisciplinary Approach
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Mathematics is shown as a tool to explore economics, sports, technology, nature, and the sciences—making this series ideal for dinner table discussions between everyone in the family.
The Series is Ideal For:
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Anyone who wants to be inspired by math
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Elementary and middle school students
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Math circles and gifted toddlers
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Homeschooling families
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Educators seeking real-world enrichment
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Anyone who’s ever asked, “When will I ever use math?”
Let your child see the world through mathematical eyes—one question, and one book, at a time.
Adventures in AI and Machine Learning: The Future Is Here
In "Adventures in AI and Machine Learning," you will explore the fascinating realm of technology shaping our future in real time. This book is your passport to an exciting world where you'll uncover the magic of AI and ML and learn how it's already a part of your daily life. This book is specially designed for middle and high school students and their parents.
Join us as we embark on an extraordinary adventure where you'll:
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Discover the Basics: Delve into the foundations of AI and Machine Learning in a way that's accessible and engaging for students of all ages.
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Real-Life Applications: Explore how AI is used in your favorite apps, games, and even in the movies you watch, and learn about the cool applications powered by AI.
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The Future Unleashed: Peer into the exciting possibilities AI and ML hold for your generation, from smart cities to innovative careers that await you.
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Ethical Exploration: Engage in thought-provoking discussions about the ethical dilemmas AI can present and how to use this technology responsibly.
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Projects: We provide resources and ideas for you to delve into AI and ML and enjoy an amazing educational experience. Who knows, you may even find your calling in life.
This book is not just an exploration but a friendly guide to help you and your family navigate the world of AI and ML together. It's designed to spark curiosity, inspire creativity, and prepare the next generation for the exciting opportunities that lie ahead.
The future is already here!
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Math in the Real World Series:
How Secret Codes Work
How do spies communicate so no one else can understand their messages? This illustrated book explores cryptography and secret codes, introducing concepts like the Caesar Cipher, substitution ciphers, and binary code through engaging examples and activities. The book explains historical applications of cryptography, from Julius Caesar's military communications to Alan Turing's breaking of the Enigma code during WWII, and connects these to modern encryption used in banking, messaging apps, and internet security. Interactive challenges encourage readers to decode messages and create their own codes, demonstrating how mathematics is essential for protecting information in our digital world. With real-world examples and fun challenges, this book shows how math keeps our digital lives safe and our secrets secure. Readers get to try and crack some codes too!
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Math in the Real World Series:
The Science of Winning Streaks
Is there really such a thing as a “hot hand”? This book explores how probability and mathematics help explain sports phenomena. It examines whether winning streaks are due to skill or random chance, introducing concepts like the “hot hand theory” in basketball and using coin flips to demonstrate how streaks occur naturally. The book features famous winning streaks in sports history, explains how sports analysts and coaches use statistical models to predict outcomes, and demonstrates practical probability calculations. Throughout, readers learn how math is used in various sports-related careers and for making strategic decisions. Interactive probability problems engage young readers in applying mathematical concepts to real sports scenarios. Readers get to learn how math helps us separate luck from skill—and why understanding randomness can make you a better player and sharper thinker – on and off the field!
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Math in the Real World Series:
The Math Behind Google Searches
How does Google know exactly what you're looking for? This book explores how Google uses mathematical concepts to deliver search results accurately and efficiently. The book covers web crawlers and PageRank algorithms, and it illustrates how Google indexes billions of websites, ranks them based on trustworthiness, handles misspellings, and personalizes results. The book includes engaging visuals, fun facts, and interactive challenges that demonstrate search engine principles. A fascinating look at how math makes the internet work—and how it helps solve real-world problems.
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Math in the Real World Series:
The Math of Music
What makes music sound so good? “The Math of Music” explores how mathematics forms the foundation of music. The book explains how sound travels as waves, how frequencies determine musical notes, and why certain note combinations create harmony through mathematical ratios. It covers the 12-tone system, rhythm patterns, time signatures, and the mathematical principles behind musical instruments. The book highlights cultural differences in musical mathematics, famous mathematical musicians like Bach and Pythagoras, and digital music sampling. With interactive activities and fun facts, it encourages children to create their own mathematical music patterns and understand how math shapes the music they love. Whether you're a budding musician or math lover, this book hits all the right notes.
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Math in the Real World Series:
How BIG is the Internet?
The internet is enormous—but how big is it, really? This book explores the scale of the digital world and explains how mathematics powers the internet, covering topics like data measurement (bits to zettabytes), internet traffic statistics, compression algorithms, encryption, cloud computing, and exponential growth. The book uses child-friendly explanations to illustrate concepts like how search engines work, video streaming functions, and how social media functions. It highlights the digital divide between regions and explores future technologies like quantum computing. Throughout, it emphasizes how math is fundamental to the internet’s functionality and encourages young readers to appreciate mathematics’ real-world applications.
Explore how math helps us count, measure, and map the digital world. Learn about data growth, storage, and the unseen math that powers our connected world. A perfect intro to digital literacy through a mathematical lens.
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Math in the Real World Series:
Can You Beat a Casino?
Can math help you win at gambling—or prove that you shouldn’t even try? This book explains probability concepts through gambling scenarios, demonstrating how math creates the house edge that ensures casinos consistently profit. The book covers various casino games including roulette, blackjack, slots, poker, and lotteries, breaking down their odds and expected values. It debunks common gambling fallacies like “being due for a win” and explains concepts like card counting. Throughout, the book uses friendly, accessible language to teach children how understanding probability helps in making smarter decisions not just in casinos, but also in everyday life. Games of chance may seem random—but math tells a different story. This book introduces probability, expected value, and the edge that keeps casinos winning. Learn how math helps us understand risk, make smarter decisions, spot fair (and unfair) games and make better and more informed decisions everywhere – not just at the tables.
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Math in the Real World Series:
Math in Robotics
Robots are everywhere now. How do robots move, think, and see the world? The answer is math! This illustrated book explores how math powers robots—through navigation, angles, logic, color recognition, and AI learning. With fun activities like programming a robot on a grid and robot-themed math games, this book helps kids discover how math powers machines that move, think, and solve problems in the real world. The content aims to show children how math is essential to modern technology while making learning engaging and practical. Complex ideas become playful and practical in this exciting introduction to robotics.
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Math in the Real World Series:
Why Can't We Predict the Weather Perfectly?
“Why Can't We Predict the Weather Perfectly?” explores how chaos theory and mathematical modeling affect weather forecasting. The book explains that despite advanced technology collecting millions of data points, perfect predictions remain impossible due to the butterfly effect—where tiny initial changes create drastically different outcomes in complex systems. Readers learn about weather measurement tools, forecasting processes, and the mathematics behind calculating probabilities. The book includes fun activities like creating a home weather station, performing a chaos art experiment, and figuring out a weather prediction challenge. Despite supercomputers and satellites, forecasts still miss the mark. Why? The answer lies in chaos theory and the math of complex systems. Discover how small changes in data can create big changes in outcomes—and what that means for our weather predictions. With interactive activities like DIY weather tracking and chaos experiments, big ideas become understandable and fun, even for the youngest meteorologists.
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Math in the Real World Series:
The Best Way to Cut a Cake Fairly
Fairness can be surprisingly complicated! This children's book introduces young readers to fair division concepts through the familiar scenario of sharing a cake. The book explains various methods like “You Cut, I Choose” and illustrates how these principles create Nash equilibrium situations where everyone benefits from being fair. It covers strategies for dividing items among multiple people, includes brain teasers with solutions, and shows how game theory applies beyond cake-cutting to real-world scenarios like economics, politics, and inheritance. The colorful, engaging format uses jokes, puzzles, and relatable examples to demonstrate how mathematics helps solve everyday fairness problems.
Explore classic puzzles and clever algorithms that make sharing smarter (and sweeter). Readers get introduced to game theory through games and challenges appropriate for any age.
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Math in the Real World Series:
Why do Bees Build Hexagons?
“Why Do Bees Build Hexagons?” explores mathematical efficiency in nature. This colorful, engaging book explains how and why bees use hexagonal cells in their honeycombs as the most efficient shape for storing honey while using minimal wax. Through simple explanations, fun facts, and interactive challenges, young readers discover that hexagons appear throughout nature and human technology—from snowflakes to soccer balls to modern architecture. The book includes activities like hexagon hunts and coloring challenges that make mathematical concepts accessible and exciting. Cartoon bee guides Buzz and Hexa add playful elements that help children connect with the mathematical principles behind nature's perfect design. With playful characters and interactive challenges, this book reveals the math behind nature’s most perfect shape.
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Math in the Real World Series:
How do Plants Use Math?
This colorful children's book reveals the fascinating mathematical patterns in plant growth and structure. Through engaging illustrations and simple explanations, young readers discover how plants naturally incorporate the Fibonacci sequence, Golden Ratio, symmetry, and fractals in their development. The book explores seed arrangements in sunflowers, petal counts in flowers, leaf patterns on stems, and how plants maximize sunlight exposure through precise angles. With interactive experiments and fun facts about photosynthesis and growth rates, it shows children that math isn't just abstract numbers but a fundamental part of nature all around them. Readers will come away seeing how math helps nature grow—and how numbers bloom all around us.
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Math in the Real World Series:
How Does Math Help Us Travel
to Space?
This vibrant children's book makes space exploration accessible through engaging mathematical concepts. Young readers discover how math is essential for rocket launches, calculating fuel needs, measuring cosmic distances, and plotting orbital paths. The book explains complex ideas like escape velocity, gravity, and space navigation using child-friendly examples and colorful illustrations. It features fun facts about Katherine Johnson's contributions to NASA and includes interactive math challenges to solve. With relatable comparisons (like Earth as a marble) and inspirational messages, it ignites curiosity about both mathematics and space while showing how classroom math translates to real-world cosmic adventures. This book makes space math exciting and easy to understand for future astronauts and explorers.
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Math in the Real World Series:
Why are Soap Bubbles Spherical?
"Why are Soap Bubbles Spherical?" is a colorful, engaging children's book that explains the fascinating mathematics behind bubble shapes. It explores why bubbles always form perfect spheres due to the principle of minimum surface area. Through simple explanations, vibrant images, and fun activities like making bubble solution and creating bubble wands, the book connects mathematical concepts to everyday observations. It highlights how nature uses mathematical efficiency in various spherical objects—from water droplets to planets. With friendly cartoon guides Bubbly and Professor Sphero, this book makes complex concepts accessible and exciting for young readers. Bubbles are more than fun—they’re math in action! Learn why bubbles form spheres no matter the shape of the wand, how surface area works, and what shapes do in nature. A playful look at geometry, physics, and the surprising efficiency of spheres in nature.
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Math in the Real World Series:
How do Computers Understand Pictures?
“How Do Computers Understand Pictures?” is an engaging children’s book that demystifies digital images for young readers. Through colorful visuals and simple explanations, it reveals how images are built from tiny pixels, each containing mathematical RGB color codes. The book introduces concepts like resolution, binary code, and image compression while explaining how computers use math to detect patterns, edges, and shapes. Guided by friendly characters Pixie and Professor Matrix, readers discover how technology from smartphones to video games uses mathematics to process images. With hands-on activities and real-world examples, this book shows children how math powers the digital visuals in their everyday lives. Readers will come away seeing how pixels, patterns, and math work together to help computers make sense of the world.
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How Does Math Help Animals Survive?
“How Does Math Help Animals Survive?” is a vibrant educational book that introduces young readers to the fascinating ways animals instinctively use mathematical concepts in nature. Each colorful page explores how different creatures—from bees building perfect hexagons to dolphins using echolocation—employ mathematical principles to survive and thrive. The book features engaging animal ‘guides” like Cal the Fox and Ella the Elephant who explain concepts like symmetry, navigation, and the golden ratio through accessible language and stunning imagery. This book aims to spark curiosity and show children that math isn’t just classroom learning but an essential part of the natural world around them. Animals use math every day—without even knowing it! They need and use math for survival. From echolocation to camouflage, readers will learn how math helps creatures hunt, hide, migrate, and thrive. Nature’s smartest strategies are powered by math - patterns and problem-solving.
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