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Math: Math with Dennis Brown

Print Books in the JSCC Library

An Abundance of Katherines

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun -- but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future

Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction.

The Signal and the Noise

Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction.

E-books from Dogwood Digital Library

Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

The Housekeeper and the Professor (Print) (Audio Version)

The Mathematician's Shiva

A Man for all Markets

The Joy of X

Fermat's Enigma

Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

 

How to use Dogwood Digital Library:

From your computer

1.  Go to Dogwood Digital Library (https://dogwood.overdrive.com/)
2.  Click on the orange [Sign In] button on the top of the page
3.  Choose “James Sprunt Community College Library” from the drop down menu
4. Click the sign in button below
5. You will be redirected to the library's login page
6. Log in using your James Sprunt CC library barcode number (note, the email/password option does not work for Dogwood)
7. Search for the book title that you want to read

From your phone and tablet 

1.  Download the Libby by Overdrive app
2.  Choose “James Sprunt Community College Library” from the drop down menu
3. You will be redirected to the library's login page
4.  Log in using your James Sprunt CC library barcode number (note, the email/password option does not work for Dogwood)
5.  Search for the book that you want to read

Learning outcomes

  1. Develop the academic habits, learning strategies, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in mathematics.
  2. Master foundational skills necessary to use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to solve absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic equations with both real and complex solutions.
  3. Master foundational skills necessary to use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to solve absolute value, polynomial and rational inequalities with real solutions.
  4. Master foundational skills necessary to use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to analyze absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions with both real and complex zeros.
  5. Master foundational skills necessary to use multiple methods to solve problems involving systems of equations and apply to decomposing partial fractions.
  6. Master foundational skills necessary to construct the composition and inverse of functions.
  7. Master foundational skills necessary to use polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions to model various real world situations in order to analyze, draw conclusions, and make predictions.
  8. Demonstrate a systematic approach to solve word problems related to business mathematical concepts.
  9. Demonstrate knowledge and application of business mathematical concepts to interpret and solve problems involving interest and discounts.
  10. Compute sales commissions and gross pay.
  11. Compute the variables of the basic markup formula.
  12. Define and prepare a payroll register including income tax withholding amounts.
  13. Compute sales taxes using rate tables and percents.
  14. Apply the definition of limit to evaluate limits by multiple methods and use it to derive the definition and rules for differentiation and integration.
  15. Use derivatives to analyze and graph algebraic and transcendental functions.
  16. Select and apply appropriate models and differentiation techniques to solve problems involving algebraic and transcendental functions; these problems will include but are not limited to applications involving optimization and related rates.
  17. Apply the definition of indefinite integral to solve basic differential equations.
  18. Apply the definition of definite integral to evaluate basic integrals.
  19. Use the fundamental theorem of calculus to evaluate integrals involving algebraic and transcendental functions.

Available for Streaming

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

2001 Oscar Winning film, starring Russel Crowe and Jennifer Connelly

Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver

1988, starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips

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