Math + Fashion = Fun

Math + Fashion = Fun
Author: Aubre Andrus
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Arithmetic
ISBN: 9781593699444

Girls can move to the head of the class with math puzzles to help them pass! Packed with all kinds of puzzles and problems geared toward the stylish girl, this book gives girls creative ways to add, subtract, multiply, and divide their way to a good time. Girls are invited to join in the fun as Isabel and her friends from Innerstar University give their math skills an arithmetic makeover. Plus, this book includes a special access code for even more skill-building activities online.

Using Math in Fashion

Using Math in Fashion
Author: Christy Mihaly
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499438621

For readers who may be more interested in fashion than in math, this book highlights how math is useful and necessary for designing clothes, purchasing materials, sewing, and altering clothes, and running a fashion business. The Try It Yourself feature offers word problems to reinforce the fashion world relevance of math, while intriguing sidebars provide fun facts, historical perspectives, and information about modern designers. Each word problem focuses on a grade five Common Core skill. Topics covered include geometry (calculating volume); fractions (using equivalent fractions to add and subtract); measurements; and operations with decimals up to the hundredths place.

Fashion Math

Fashion Math
Author: Rae Simons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1422289176

People who make clothes need to get their numbers right. From the length of fabric to the size of a pair of jeans, math plays an important role in the fashion industry. In Fashion Math, you'll learn some of the ways the math you learn in the classroom is important on the catwalk. You may even want to use that math to try your hand at making your own clothes!

Using Math in Fashion

Using Math in Fashion
Author: Christy Mihaly
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 149943863X

For readers who may be more interested in fashion than in math, this book highlights how math is useful and necessary for designing clothes, purchasing materials, sewing, and altering clothes, and running a fashion business. The Try It Yourself feature offers word problems to reinforce the fashion world relevance of math, while intriguing sidebars provide fun facts, historical perspectives, and information about modern designers. Each word problem focuses on a grade five Common Core skill. Topics covered include geometry (calculating volume); fractions (using equivalent fractions to add and subtract); measurements; and operations with decimals up to the hundredths place.

The Great Big Book of Super-Fun Math Activities

The Great Big Book of Super-Fun Math Activities
Author: Jean Liccione
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439077552

Here are more than 100 motivating activities, games, puzzles, and story problems that reinforce key math skills. Illustrations.

Math Art Fun

Math Art Fun
Author: Robin Ward
Publisher: Bright Sky Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Art in mathematics education
ISBN: 9781933979892

Math Goggles is a collection of field-tested activities for children that integrate mathematics into the world of the visual arts. Serving as the focal point for each mathematics activity is the work of a famous modern artist"Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Georgie O'Keefe, and many more. After learning brief biographical and anecdotal information about the artist, the reader engages in an exploration of the mathematics embedded in the artwork by creating the featured piece of artwork in the spirit of the artist. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by color images of the artistic masterpieces as well as actual student work aid the reader in visualizing and understanding how to create the art in each activity. As the reader creates each masterpiece, mimicking the great masters, they simultaneously hone their estimation, counting, measurement, and number-sense skills while noticing, creating, and describing shapes and patterns and experimenting with symmetry and probability.

Success with STEM

Success with STEM
Author: Sue Howarth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134739362

Success with STEM is an essential resource, packed with advice and ideas to support and enthuse all those involved in the planning and delivery of STEM in the secondary school. It offers guidance on current issues and priority areas to help you make informed judgements about your own practice and argue for further support for your subject in school. It explains current initiatives to enhance STEM teaching and offers a wide range of practical activities to support exciting teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom. Illustrated with examples of successful projects in real schools, this friendly, inspiring book explores: Innovative teaching ideas to make lessons buzz Activities for successful practical work Sourcing additional funding Finding and making the most of the best resources STEM outside the classroom Setting-up and enhancing your own STEM club Getting involved in STEM competitions, fairs and festivals Promoting STEM careers and tackling stereotypes Health, safety and legal issues Examples of international projects An wide-ranging list of project and activity titles Enriched by the authors’ extensive experience and work with schools, Success with STEM is a rich compendium for all those who want to develop outstanding lessons and infuse a life-long interest in STEM learning in their students. The advice and guidance will be invaluable for all teachers, subject leaders, trainee teachers and NQTs.

Mathematics Everywhere

Mathematics Everywhere
Author: Martin Aigner
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821843494

The authors are renowned mathematicians; their presentations cover a wide range of topics. From compact discs to the stock exchange, from computer tomography to traffic routing, from electronic money to climate change, they make the "math inside" understandable and enjoyable.

On Fashion

On Fashion
Author: Shari Benstock
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813520339

Barbie Magazine and the aesthetic commodification of girls' bodies (I.M. O'Sickey). This year's girl: a personal/critical history of Twiggy (L. B. DeLibero). A woman's two bodies: fashion magzines, consumerism and feminism (L.W. Rabine). No bumps, no excrescences: Amelia Earhart's failed flight into fashions (K. Jay). Sonia Rykiel in traslation (H. Cixous). From Celebration (S. Rykiel). Off the (W)rack: fashion and pain in the work of Diane Arbus (C. Shloss). An erotics of representation: fashioning the icon with Man Ray (M.A. Caws). Seduction and elegance: the new woman of fashion in silent cinema (M. Turim). Madonna, fashion and identity (D. Kellner). Fragments of a fashionable discourse (K. Silverman). Womenrecovering our clothes (I.M. Young). Fashion and the homospectatorial look (D. Fuss). Terrorist chic: style and domination in contemporary Ireland (C. Herr). Paris or perish : the plight of the latin american indian in a westernized world (B. Brodman). Tribalism in effect (A. Ross).

Clothes Minded

Clothes Minded
Author: Chloe Taylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481429280

Zoey worries that she is closed-minded when she fouls things up trying to help someone who has a crush on her friend and when she tries to bar someone from joining the school's fashion club.