Pirate's Combination Treasure Hunt - Michael Greene - Bog

The Pirate's Combination Treasure Hunt teaches about factorials, permutations, and combinations, math topics that are fascinating for most ages! The class goes on a treasure hunt solving problems to get to the next clue. It's a fun way to learn.Factorials are used to calculate permutations and combinations. Permutations are how may ways items an be arranged. Every wonder how many ways you could arrange the books on a shelf or line the children up in a line? This book will teach you. Combinations are how many ways a group of items can be chosen from another group. If you need to pick five people from ten to make a team, this book will teach you how. If you want to have every team play every other team, again, you'll learn how. Want to know how many different pizzas can be made with the toppings you have or how many ways you can create an ice cream sundae with two scoops of ice cream and three toppings? Find fun, fascinating, and useful information.Although combinations are considered a more advanced math topic, only basic math skills are needed to understand this book. If you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, you can understand this fascinating topic and expand your mind. You'll find many uses for it too, whether you are trying to understand probability, figure out your chances of winning the lottery, or calculating how many games are to be played in a round robin tournament or races in a pinewood derby. This is practical math that you can use and enjoy learning.This book has a unique origin, as it was done as an eagle scout project by Michael Todd Greene. He wanted to do something that would last and make a difference. His brother collected sanitation supplies, educational material, and other items for people in Africa and made toys for the children . Michael also wanted to do something that could make a difference, and education makes a difference. Since he loves math and science, and since his mother is a prolific author (See DeBokton Book and Renee Greene) he decided to create a math story book. No profit will be made to him or DeBokton Book because it is for an eagle project. All profits from this book will go to buying books -- this book and others -- for school classrooms.He took the pictures for the book in his brother's third grade class. The math topics in the book are probably advanced for third grade, but they are fascinating and appropriate for fourth grade through adult.Help get books in schools and learn about an exciting math topic that you can use by buying this book. You too can make a difference.