Mathical Book Prize
from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
U.S. Title I Schools: Apply for the Mathical Collection Development Awards through November 9, 2023.
Books for Grades 9–12
Space probes, self-assembling robots, crash-absorbing cars, and designer proteins all have one thing in common: their use of folding technologies. To develop these technologies, engineers are taking inspiration from an unusual source—origami, the ancient art of paper folding. Examine origami’s origins, how it intersects with mathematics, and how it became a tool to solve some …
Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham wonders how she went from avoiding romance to having to choose between two---or is it three?---boys.
David Blackwell is regarded as a brilliant mathematician whose contributions helped to lay the foundation for new fields such as information theory. That he was an African-American working in the years before and during the Civil Rights Movement makes his accomplishments that much more remarkable.
Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates seven remarkable women who used math as their key to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovative work that changed the world.
Here are twenty-six bite-size chapters on the hidden mathematical marvels that encrypt our email, enchant our senses, and even keep us alive—from the sine waves we hear as “music” to the mysterious golden ratio.
Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, seventeen-year-old game developer Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blacknes
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself — but first she has to make it there, alive.
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
