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For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game.
The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, until now no one had written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball think about numbers and the game.
Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, the experts at the Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of baseball, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player at every level can enjoy and learn from.
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loved it.......2007-09-21
I do not subscribe to the Prospectus, so I found this book to be incredibly fascinating. So much so I have passed it around to several friends who have also found it fascinating.
Although one can say a great many things with stats, this book presents some surprisingly sound arguments against many commonly held beliefs. ( and had a couple I don't necessarily agree with but that doesn't make the book wrong) I do admit that a couple of the chapters I didn't care about and therefore glossed over, but still I give the book a excellent review overall.
Thanks to this book, I, and several of my friends, now call Derek Jeter "Pastadiving". You'll just have to read that chapter.
A new way to look at old strategies.......2007-09-05
I've watched baseball since I was a kid 40 years ago. I'd heard of Bill James and kind of knew about saberemetrics, but had never taken the time to learn anything about the new numbers.
This book was a great introduction. The concepts are explained well, and all are tied to real world examples I could understand so it wasn't like reading a statistical treatise.
Some of the concepts confirmed things I already knew, like how silly it is to rely on batting averages. Then there were other topics, like why it's not always a good idea to bunt that I had heard other people espouse, but conflicted with my traditional baseball thinking. After reading the chapter on it, I'm convinced.
Finally, one of the things I most enjoyed about the book was the many ways they compared current stars to former stars and current teams to past teams. That's one of the richest areas of baseball debate, and it's always been totally subjective. And it gets a little stranger when people arguing for the 1930s Yankees are two generations removed from ever seeing them play. But the authors lay out very reasonable statistical measures of how to compare players and teams across time. It certainly won't end debate--this is baseball we're talking about. But it adds a splendid new dimension.
Five Stars for Content.......2007-08-13
Nice book and just what I needed so I now know why I can not make sense out of the baseball business that is so much about what we see on field now. And why baseball is no longer my grandparents or parents game of baseball. We will all lose interest even with a book explaining why and how about what and what is really what about baseball and what most influences the game besides playing a decent game of baseball for the fans and followers of a game that use to be a game enjoyed not a game that has to be enjoyed because of investments. The investment in the price of a ticket and a day at the ballpark is the fan's investment. No longer affordable because everyone deserves to be huge personalities making millions yearly. Just like we all should be multi-millionaires by now. Most people making money off of baseball have never stepped a foot on the field and probably only check in occasionally to check up on their money.
So we all will be just as saddened about what baseball is now and wait for it to end while giving our attention to the next sport that begins before the baseball season ends. What began as not a kid's game but a professional game for adults and what adults could enjoy and be entertained by is now like most of what influences our daily lives IT IS all about the BIG money supporting a game and process that use to give us all great games of baseball and an outing with friends or family.
The fun and enjoyment is almost all gone when the game became untrustworthy and dishonest and only credit card affordable.
A game of baseball is where we could escape to and find some enjoyment and not worry about being scammed. The enjoyment of baseball is almost gone, so very sad and unnecessary. I wanted this book so I could see the facts. Business is business and baseball business is the same.
Now our cherished pastime, national game is nothing more and mostly nothing more that BIG BUSINESS and becoming exclusive and what was once for all Americans, has become like so much else only for those who can afford to be Americans.
GREAT BASEBALL BOOK.......2007-06-27
I bought this book for my husband, a true baseball fanatic, and he loves it.
There is more to the game than a boxscore.......2007-05-27
Some of us like to actually watch and enjoy the game of baseball. Baseball Prospectus and their attempted empire do their best to ruin the enjoyment of watching games and players.
The title of this book is so incredibly arrogant. They want us to ignore pitcher's wins and runs batted in as if they are totally meaningless. I do not turn my nose at a twenty game winner, nor do I ignore that fact that some players considered knocking in baserunners to be an important accomplishment. In fact, Hank Greenberg often chided Charlie Gehringer for clearing the bases and not leaving any for him.
Instead, they offer complex formulae that tell us who we should consider to be the best. If I prefer Mays over Mantle or A-Rod over Jeter, I do not want someone to come along and give me their definitive answer.
What these pencil necked geeks refuse to admit, as anyone who plays with numbers knows, is that the answer is frequently set when you set up the parameters. No matter what BP says, they cannot answer whether good pitching beats good hitting. It cannot and should not be resolved.
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Clear, concise, and practical, The Trading Game shows you how to harness the power of money management for any trading method "The goal of most futures traders is to make a million dollars as fast and as painlessly as possible. Unfortunately, few traders achieve this goal. In The Trading Game, Ryan Jones demonstrates how the proper application of his new money management strategy, Fixed Ratio Trading, can enable an average trading system to earn spectacular profits. My advice? Don't trade until you've spent as much time and effort on money management as you've spent on developing your entry and exit rules." -Tom Bierovic, Manager System Trading & Development Education, Omega Research, Inc. "Ryan Jones is on the cutting edge of the most important element in the art of speculation-be it stocks or commodities-money management." -Larry Williams, trader and author Long-Term Secrets to Shot-Term Trading "Money management is the most overlooked part of trading but is the key to building enormous wealth. Ryan Jones first overviews classical methods and then discusses a new paradigm which, combined with a reliable trading method, can lead to financial security." -Murray Ruggiero, President Ruggiero & Associates; contributing editor, Futures magazine "At last-a money management book that is not intimidating or boring. Ryan Jones has made a complex subject easier to understand and follow. I am especially excited for all independent traders." -Glen Ring, President, Glen Ring Enterprises editor of the widely respected View on Futures newsletter "Ryan Jones has always been one of the most innovative traders and creative minds in the industry. With the writing of The Trading Game: Playing by the Numbers to Make Millions, he has taken the science of money management and risk control to another level. I wholeheartedly endorse his efforts and recommend this new work required reading to anyone either just entering the trading arena, or already participating in it." -Ted Tesser, CPA and author, The Trader's Tax Survival Guide
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One of the two books I will recommend for Money Management.......2007-07-22
This is one of the two books about money management that I would recommend to anyone who is trading, the other one is Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom by Van Tharp.
This book actually covers all issues related to position sizing and teaches a method especially beneficial to traders starting with a smaller account. I understand the numbers in the book is not properly illustrated, and the examples are somewhat intentionally designed, by the logic behind the method is very robust. Meanwhiles the author does not exclude the possibility of other position sizing strategies, he does suggest to switch from fixed ratio to fixed fractional method once you have build up your account to some point(on page 220).IMO, it is actually the best money management plan that will cover the whole life of a trading account.
I strongly recommend this book, as the best book on position sizing, and one of the best( together with Tharp's book) on money management.
Helpful but very tough to follow........2007-04-20
I liked the ideas in the book about position sizing, very helpful material. But the author will throw all kinds of numbers at you without really explaining how or where he got those numbers. The material is probably obvious to the author, so he assumes that it will obvious to the reader, as well. If you buy this book be ready to read and reread sections.
Here is an example: "After having acquired $100,000 in profits using the $5,000 as the delta for the fixed ratio method, we would be trading 20 contracts. The minimum level of profits to trade 20 contracts is $1,000,000. Therefore, what took 4 years to generate $225,000 estimated profits, generated $750,000 more in profits during the next four years"
Did he not say in the first sentence that 20 contracts would be traded for $100,000 in profits? In the second sentence it is $1,000,000? He does not explain how he got $225,000 or $750,000. I am sure Mr. Jones knows how he got these numbers but readers are left to figure it out for thmeselves.
The parts of the book that I did understand, I have begun to apply, such as position sizing. But it is a long and frustrating read.
EffectiveFX.......2006-08-06
If you really want to optimize your Forex trading returns, you need to understand the principles of money management. This book by Ryan Jones is probably one of the best books available on the topic of Money Management. If there is such a thing as a Holy Grail then Money Management is it. With proper money management you will be able to stay in the game for the long term. One of the biggest mistakes novice traders make is that they don't know how to manage their trading risks, that is why the failure rate for beginning trades is greater that 95%. Most novice traders blow out their account within the first year.
This book will be a real eye opener; it will provide some great insight into why proper money management is critical to your success. The following is a sample paragraph from the book:
"you don't need $1 million to achieve $1 million. You only need to build profits that total $100,000 based on trading a single contract. What this means is that a person who trades a single contract and makes $100,000 at the end of 5 years, instead could make $1 million by implementing proper money management"
Ryan does an excellent job at detailing the various Money Management methods along with their short comings. Parts of the book are complex; you may have to read them a couple of time to fully understand the concepts. Ryan does include a lot of tables and calculation in this book but they are easy to follow and comprehend. You don't need more that a high school math background to understand the calculations. This is another one of those "Must Have" books that you need in your trading library. We here at EffectiveFX highly recommend this book. It can make the difference between financial success and failure. Any trader serious about trading for a living must utilize proper risk management principles to be in the game for the long term.
Go to our site to see a list of highly recommended books for successful forex trading.
Complex but valuable book about money management.......2005-09-20
Explains the principles of money management; covers in detail the various aproaches (pyramiding, martingale, fixed fractional, optimal f et al) and shows why they are not optimal for traders. Finally offers his own money management approach called Fixed ratio. Loosely derives from fixed fractional, but reduces drawdowns and risk, while still allowing for improved growth.
The book is complex and somewhat dry, there are LOTS of tables of figures and you will need to re-read many sections. The method of money management seems sound enough although I haven't incorporated it into my approach yet.
Defintely worth reading as money management has been shown repetedly to be key to success in trading (alongside psychology, emotions and good exit strategies - which are not covered in this book).
compulsory book.......2005-04-02
This book contains virtually all information on money management methods. And more. And though the tables are at times tiring, overall presentation is clear, short and no-nonsense. The author presents existing methods of position sizing and then presents his, Fixed Ratio. I think that for small trading accounts this method is the most suitable in terms of the balance of risk and reward.
Other parts of the book are equally good. The chapters on consecutive wins/losses, optimisation, trading systems, portfolios are valuable and interesting. The whole book is written from probabilistic point of view. It is based on maths, even though the examples and calculations are very basic.
Even if one disagrees with author's ideas, this book is one of those few that are compulsory for serious traders.
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Blue 2 is a beautiful cacophony delighting everyone! From a to z each letter gives a clue to where the Blue 2 is hidden in each of these spectacular pop-up sculptures. There's a glistening Blue 2, a slippery Blue 2, and even a suspended Blue 2. With gleeful helixes, jubilant kookiness, and mobile nonsense, each page will stun with its paper pop-up phenomenon. This sequel to One Red Dot is surely one to treasure.
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A 2nd (!) great book by Carter.......2007-10-03
Like "One Red Dot," this is a marvelous book. The three-dimensional creations are a wonder and the book is a fantastic gift for people of all ages.. children learning to love books, artists, teachers and adults who have an appreciation for detail. Last but not last, the book is great fun!
Not as good as Red Dot...but still cool.......2007-08-31
I think my title says it all. I bought this book because my kids and I absolutely loved the Red Dot book. We certainly enjoyed the Blue 2, but it was a bit harder for the kids (5 & 7) and they lost interest early. If you are buying this book for an adult - I think you shouldn't hesitate. You will love the ingenuity of the pop-ups.
Good for kids; great for adults.......2007-05-13
A beautiful, amazing book that will be appreciated by adults probably more than kids.
A Fitting Sequel.......2007-05-13
Who would have thought that One Red Dot could be equalled? Well, guess what? This is, once again, adorable and fanciful and mesmerizing. Even if we had to labor a long time to find the 2 on the very first page.
Fantastic book.......2007-01-12
I love this book! All of my kids, aged 5 - 11 enjoyed trying to find the "Blue 2" they make it just challenging enough, but not too hard. The pages were really interesting. Great purchase
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This unprecedented book provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics-their keeping, their study, their creators-and analyzes this cultural phenomenon from 1845 until today. It is a fascinating portrayal of the people who have devoted time and passion to advancing the science. This quest to provide baseball with its statistical foundation is reminiscent of the toils and inspirations recounted in Longitude and The Professor and the Madman. The Numbers Game is baseball's answer to those books.
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5+ Stars - A Must For Your Baseball Library .......2007-07-03
Yes, this is a book about baseball statistics and the numbers - but more than that, it discusses the people who made these statistics more important, starting with Henry Chadwick and onward to the present time - there is more biographical info on these people and how they developed their work with numbers - Schwarz doesn't go too deeply into the numbers but talks more about the people themselves - I think I learned more about Bill James in his chapter than I have in books specifically about him. A definite must have for your baseball collection.
I saw myself in this book.......2007-03-28
This was a tough book for me to read It was a dry book I do love numbers, but Im not sure I love Books about numbers. Yet I got a lot out of this book Stats to value, and the history of Baseball stats.
Its full of names, Most you wont remember But you see how even early on Owners of teams learned to value what the numbers predicted. And later it goes on to show how the numbers became important to Free Agency. You learn one of the first to value Stats was and the computer was Sandy Alderson Who later nurtured Billy Beane
As a Kid I played some of the Games described in this book APba and one other. And I kept stats on those games Just like Bill james and some of the other stat freaks described in this book
So I saw myself in this book to a point except I didnt carry on with it............ Sigh, it would have been a great lifes work Maybe thats why the book was hard to read
a must have book.......2007-03-05
If you are a baseball fan with any interest in statistics (and how can one be a baseball fan WITHOUT an interest in statistics), then this book is a must-have. Schwarz has written a fascinating book giving the history of baseball statistics, getting into the personalities, politics and trivia involved. A wonderful book!
And the people who play it..........2007-03-02
Schwarz has a very good feel for the near-fanatics who populate the landscape of baseball numerics. Given the 150+ years of the sport's history, it's not an easy task to capture the flavor of times past and the role these characters played. Yet in a few hundred pages that's exactly what he does, while giving a concise picture of how numbers and their perception have radically changed the way baseball talent and teams are viewed.
Wow, Stats Have Finally Jumped the Shark.......2007-01-15
I'm a geek and a stats-head.
But, even I got bored with this book about the history of stats. It was informative, but a history of stats? Augh...
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ONAG, as the book is known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential for over a quarter of a century. Still in high demand, it is being republished with some adjustments and corrections. The original motivation for writing the book was an attempt to understand the relation between the theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games. By defining numbers as the strengths of positions in certain games, the author arrives at a new class, the surreal numbers (so named by Donald Knuth) that includes at the same time the real numbers and the ordinal numbers.
This new edition ends with an epilogue that sets the stage for further research on surreal numbers. The book is a must-have for all readers with a serious interest in the mathematical foundations of game strategies.
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Mind-blowingly original, side-splittingly funny.......2005-02-02
This is not a book for mathematical beginners, even though it starts from literally nothing. But readers who have learned enough traditional math to understand the point of set theory and who have a solid grasp of the real number system are in for a wild ride, and will never look at numbers, or games, in the same way again.
Conway is the most original mathematician on the planet, as well as a remarkably witty and vivid writer, who combines wordplay and logic better than anyone since Lewis Carroll. The book is far too densely packed to summarize in a short review. All I can say is that it's practically inexhaustible; like all good math books, what you get out is proportional to the effort you make while reading it, but the amount of effort it will repay is a hundred times as much as for an ordinary book.
This is an all-time classic, a "desert island book". Even though this new edition differs from the old one in very minor ways, I bought it immediately because my 1978 copy was falling apart from extreme overuse. (My other "desert island math book" is Cohen's "Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis".)
Math geek heaven.......2002-12-20
Boy, you wanna talk about your _cool_ books. I read this one twenty years ago and never quite got over it. Georg Cantor sure opened a can of worms with all that infinity stuff.
John Horton Conway is probably best known as the creator/discoverer of the computer game called "Life," with which he re-founded the entire field of cellular automata. What he does in this book is the _other_ thing he's best known for: he shows how to construct the "surreal numbers" (they were actually named by Donald Knuth).
Conway's method employs something like Dedekind cuts (the objects Richard Dedekind used to construct the real numbers from the rationals), but more general and much more powerful. Conway starts with the empty set and proceeds to construct the entire system of surreals, conjuring them forth from the void using a handful of recursive rules.
The idea is that we imagine numbers created on successive "days". On the first day, there's 0; on the next, -1 and +1; on the next, 2, 1/2, -1/2, and -2; on the next, 3, 3/4, 1/4, -1/4, -3/4, and -3; and so on. In the first countably-infinite round, we get all the numbers that can be written as a fraction whose denominator is a power of two (including, obviously, all the whole numbers). We can get as close to any other real number as we like, but they haven't actually been created yet at this point.
But we're just getting started. Once we get out past the first infinity, things really get weird. By the time we're through, which technically is "never," Conway's method has generated not only all the real numbers but way, way, way more besides (including more infinities than you've ever dreamed of). His system is so powerful that it includes the "hyperreal" numbers (infinitesimals and such) that emerge (by a very different route, of course) from Abraham Robinson's nonstandard analysis as a trivial special case.
So there's a lot here to get your mind around, and it's a lot of fun for readers who like to watch numbers being created out of nothing. But wait -- there's more.
See, the _full_ title of the book includes not only "numbers" but also "games". And that's the rest of the story. Conway noticed that in the board game of Go, there were certain patterns in the endgames such that each "game" looked like it could be constructed out of smaller "games". It turns out that something similar is true of all games that have certain properties, and that his surreal numbers tie into such games very nicely; "numbers" (and their generalizations) represent strategies in those games. So in the remainder of the book Conway spells this stuff out and revolutionizes the subject of game theory while he's at it.
Well, there must be maybe two or three people in the world to whom this all sounds very cool and yet who haven't already heard of this book. To you I say: read it before you die, and see how God created math.
A very dense collection of original ideas.......2002-05-22
We all think we know numbers, and yet every once in awhile something comes along that makes us realize that we actually know very little. I am not talking about facts such as whether a specific large number is prime, but about the fundamental definition of what a number is. The appearance of the surreal numbers is one of those mathematical equivalents of a whack on the side of the head. Suddenly, numbers are defined as the strengths of positions in certain games, something that is at first strange, but it turns out that the class of objects defined this way includes the real and ordinal numbers. It certainly is different, and I had to read the first thirty pages of the book three times before I felt that I truly grasped the concepts behind the definition of the surreal numbers.
From that things move more smoothly. As I read through the book, it was easy to get the impression that most of life can be described as a game, where our day-to-day status in the community can be described as a dynamic set of surreal numbers. I often wondered if that may be an effective approach for artificial intelligence work, as it certainly seems that surreal numbers can be used to model almost any dynamic situation. Furthermore, effective game playing is nothing more than effective decision making.
There are many significant ideas in the book, at times you stop and start mentally jumping through different scenarios, as in "What would be the change if this rule is added, dropped or altered?" It seems that if you took that approach, several lifetimes could be spent in exploring all the possibilities. I have read many books and this one is most likely the densest carrier of new ideas that I have ever encountered.
A Truly Amazing Piece of Work.......2001-07-14
Conway deals with a certain type of game: games with no element of chance (no dice), the players have complete knowledge about the state of the game (no hidden hand signs like scissors-paper-stone) and where the last player to move wins (though that can be stretched to include Dots and Boxes and endgames from Go - though not in this book).
Conway defines a bunch of mathematical objects. He defines mathematical operations on these objects such as addition and multiplication. The whole work looks suspiciously like a way to define the integers and arithmetic starting from set theory. But we soon see that his construction allows for all sorts of things beyond just integers. We quickly get to fractions and irrationals and we see that he has given us a wonderful new way to construct the real line. Then we discover infinities and all sorts of weird new numbers called nimbers that have fascinating properties.
It all looks a bit abstract until you get to part two (well, he actually starts at part zero so I mean part one). At this point you discover that these objects are in fact positions in games and that the ordinary everyday numbers we know so well are in fact special types of games. Ordinary operations like addition, subtraction and comparison turn out to have interpretations that are game theoretical. So in fact Conway has found a whole new way to think about numbers that is beautiful and completely different to the standard constructions. Even better, you can use this new found knowledge to find ways to win at a whole lot of games.
It's not every day that someone can make a connection like this between two separate branches of mathematics so I consider this book to be nothing less than a work of genius.
BTW This is the Conway who invented (the cellular automaton) the Game of Life and came up with the Monstrous Moonshine Conjectures (whose proof by Borcherds recently won the Fields Medal in mathematics).
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- Great for detail-oriented kids and vocab building!
- One of the best books we own
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The fourth book in the I Spy Little Book series is a delightful learning game for preschoolers. Simple rhymes introduce toddlers to the concept of numbers, and bright picture clues allow little ones to have fun with the I Spy hunt as they practice visual
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"I spy a great big yellow two,/ a pair of scissors,/ and a button that's blue." Preschoolers adore perusing A Drop of Water creator Walter Wick's crisp, colorful photographs to find objects, and in I Spy Little Numbers, they'll develop number identification and counting skills while they're at it. On the number five spread, children will find not only the three main objects (an airplane with five windows, a soccer ball made up of pentagons, and a five-wheeled choo-choo train), but five-pointed sea stars, a nickel, a pea pod with five peas, and more. Other sturdy board books in the interactive I Spy Little Book series include I Spy Little Book, I Spy Little Wheels, and I Spy Little Animals. (Baby to preschool)
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love this book.......2007-09-12
I really like the way this book has text with pictures on one side, and then the I Spy pictures on the other side. It helps kids with the pre-reading skill of matching words with pictures. My son loves the rhymes and the pictures.
Light Rhymes & Bright Colors = Mighty Combinations !.......2006-12-31
"I SPY" inspires fun for all ages; this time around it will be the perfect gift for a little boy who has a new brother. He can "read" all kinds of stories about the brightly colored objects, and memorize the rhymes as well as help the baby learn numbers. Sharing is important for a boy with a dad in Iraq and a new baby demanding attention.
The "I SPY" books remind many mothers of the Girl Scouts' "Kim's Game" and the tradition of FUN & IMAGINATION lives on. The more fully & enthusiastically parents participate in their children's learning, the greater the benefits to the entire family. These books offer chances for all senses to be used. And the unexpected, unscripted sharings from children open the curtains for moms & dads on new perceptions of abilities & personalities.
What a pay-off! We can't afford for learning to wait for kindergarten years. Encourage kids to share their books whenever & however they can.
Great for detail-oriented kids and vocab building!.......2005-11-19
My two boys, ages 3 and 2, both pull this book off the shelf over and over. I use it to teach the younger one new vocabulary (both in English and Spanish) and the older one to continue to practice his numbers (also in both languages), as well as colors. It's a great addition to the workbook Flip Flop Spanish, and also just for fun.., my littlest, a one-year-old girl, even looks at the pages and will sit with the boys to watch them. They're sturdy pages, full of all KINDS of things. The kind of book you find something new each time you open it. It has little lists to find items as well.
One of the best books we own.......2004-04-16
My 15 month old son absolutely *loves* this book, and I do too. The pictures are very interesting with lots of easily identifiable items in them for kids to pick out. (He has learned quite a bit of vocabulary from this book and practiced words he already knows--ball, clown, train, etc.) One problem that I have found with a lot of books for babies and young children is that the rhyme schemes and rhythm of the text are often pretty wonky. Not so in this case. This book is beautifully written. The rhymes are fun and easy to read. Highly reccommended!!
Long shelf life.......2003-03-08
I have two boys, 15 months old and 3 1/2 years old, and both love this book. My 15-month old not only begs me to read it to him, but is starting to learn to identify numbers (and many other objects) from it. My 3 1/2-year-old likes it on a different level, to "spy" the objects. Highly recommended.
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- excellent choice for number recognition
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- Great, but need book for more practice with 20 - 40 range
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Customer Reviews:
excellent choice for number recognition.......2007-10-15
my 4 year old twins have enjoyed the Kumon books but this one has been their favorite. My son's coloring detail and enjoyment of coloring has increased enormously. It opened up his desire to color. They both were familiar with their numbers but only to 12. This jumped us to the next level.
Not Very Interesting.......2007-03-26
We have had several of the Kumon workbooks over the years and they have always been fun and exciting for our children to work through the problems. This one just has the same 2 puzzle types (color the correct number, dot-to-dot) all the way through and none of my children were interested for very long.
Not as good as the other Kumon books for my 3-year-old.......2007-03-02
My almost 4-year old LOVED the Kumon mazes and cutting books (and has been badgering me for more). In this Numbers 1-30 book the activities consist of either coloring in certain numbered shapes to reveal an image (i.e., color all #1's yellow, all 2's blue, etc) or joining numbered dots in order to reveal an image.
He likes the numbered dots pages just fine but refuses to do the other side (the 2 types of activities face each other across the page) because he's just not that into coloring. Kids who like to color in large parts of a page should really enjoy this activity, but it bores him to tears. So a caveat for the parents of the non-coloring kids among you: you'll waste half the book.
Great, but need book for more practice with 20 - 40 range.......2005-12-29
This is a great book for helping your child to learn the order of numbers from 1 - 70. My son did fine with the 1 - 20 range. Then when we went to the 20 - 30 range, he seemed to get confused about how the number sequences worked. We went to another connect the dot workbook to do more practice with 1 - 30 numbers. We also played number games to help him grasp the pattern for how numbers increase. After he grasped this concept, we were able to continue just fine with the book.
Book Description
Experience the mysterious and magical world of numbers as never before. This unique book investigates mathematical marvels such as why daisies always have 34, 55, or 89 petals, why the world's phone numbers appear in pi, and other patterns and paradoxes that will make readers look at numbers in a whole new way.
Customer Reviews:
It really IS cool!.......2007-01-02
As a homeschooling parent, I have read a lot of math books written for children. Go Figure! is one of the freshest and most fun! The pages are saturated with information, and my one complaint is that it feels a bit visually overwhelming. Don't let the colorful pages fool you, this book is very meaty and will take some time to digest. My son really enjoyed the section on ancient number systems. The chart on pages 24-25 compares Babylonian, Hebrew, Roman, Mayan, Hindu, and others. Readers can also learn about the golden ratio and phi, prime numbers, Pascal's triangle, buckyballs, and much, much more. There are nearly 100 pages of information here, geared toward middle school and up.
Brilliant book.......2006-05-11
I found this book incredibly interesting, and I'm no maths fan - I leafed through it while babysitting for a friend who has a son of 9, then I bought the book for myself! It is so well written and extremely funny in parts. I would recommend this book to anyone of any age. I guarantee you will learn something new.
A great book for all ages & levels.......2006-05-11
This is a truly awesome book, full of fascinating insights, entertaining all the way through and amazingly wide in scope, ranging from school math to jokes, puzzles, games and high-level topics like chaos. Note that the "mistake" mentioned in the first editorial review is not really a mistake but an old joke: How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the Ark? The answer of course is "none - it was Noah who built the Ark!"
FOR ALL AGES 7-70.......2006-03-21
THE BOOK WAS BOUGHT FOR A 7 YEAR OLD, BUT I SPENT AN ENTIRE AFTERNOON READING IT.
THE BOOK IS "WAY COOL' AND BEYOND AWESOME!
Unlock the Keys to the Universe.......2005-10-13
Without math, the pyramids would never have been built. ~ Johnny Ball
Go Figure! gives children the opportunity to unlock the magic of numbers through brainteasers, mind-reading games and magic tricks. This book also contains some of the puzzles that have stumped the world's smartest mathematicians.
The author, Johnny Ball introduces concepts to make math more fun and very easy to understand. Part of what makes this book quite enjoyable is the full-color pages filled with diagrams, pictures and explanations. The concepts are divided into four main chapters:
Where do Numbers come from?
Magic Numbers
Shaping Up
The World of Math
Children will learn about Roman numerals, infinity, secret codes, World News, how counting began, shapes, chaos and logic. Johnny Ball also answers the following questions:
Did Cavemen Count?
How many molecules are in one glass of water?
What do the symbols on a Babylonian clay token mean?
How did the Mayans count?
How do insects use prime timing to survive?
How did numbers evolve? See Indian numbers go from 10 symbols to what they are today. One was originally a horizontal line. Three, three horizontal lines. Which really helps to explain why three looks the way it does today. Really fascinating stuff even for adults to read about.
As someone who enjoyed writing words upside down on my calculator in school, I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining book about how math evolved through time. There is even a page comparing 1-100 in Babylonian, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Chinese script, Hindu, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Mayan and Modern Arabic.
The Math quiz is fun and one example:
"Find two numbers that multiply together to give 1,000,000 but neither of which contains any zeros."
You may need to buy some food for the lessons on page 72. "How can you cut a doughnut into 12 pieces with only 3 straight cuts? How is it possible to push a large doughnut through a cup handle?
The book concludes with a list of "Who's Who in the math world and then there are pages of answers to all the questions.
One of the most entertaining books on math I've ever read. Definitely will be of interest to children who have any interest in solving problems or want to make learning about math way more fun.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
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Praise for The Financial Numbers Game
"So much for the notion those who can, do-those who cant, teach. Mulford and Comiskey function successfully both as college professors and real-world financial mercenaries. These guys know their balance sheets. The Financial Numbers Game should serve as a survival manual for both serious individual investors and industry pros who study and act upon the interpretation of financial statements. This unique blend of battle-earned scholarship and quality writing is a must-read/must-have reference for serious financial statement analysis." —Bob Acker, Editor/Publisher, The Acker Letter
"Wall Streets unforgiving attention to quarterly earnings presents ever increasing pressure on CFOs to manage earnings and expectations. The Financial Numbers Game provides a clear explanation of the ways in which management can stretch, bend, and break accounting rules to reach the desired bottom line. This arms the serious investor or financial analyst with the healthy skepticism required to drive beyond reported results to a clear understanding of a firms true performance." —Mark Hurley, Managing Director, Training and Development, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of America
"After reading The Financial Numbers Game, I feel as though Ive taken a masters level course in financial statement analysis. Mulford and Comiskeys latest book should be required reading for anyone who is serious about fundamentally analyzing stocks." —Harry Domash, San Francisco Chronicle investing columnist and investment newsletter publisher
Customer Reviews:
Bad editor + basic material = poor investment.......2006-07-17
I thought this was going to be a penetrating, incisive look at financial statement chicanery -- instead I got a recap of things I already learned in HOWARD SCHLIT's (better edited, clearer) book.
Most of what is in this book is either a) something you already know or b) material you can get for free on the web (investopedia.com tutorials, etc). Given the fact that the book's authors are well-known names in the field, I expected much more from this offering. Save your money...
Financial Numbers Game.......2006-05-05
The book is fine for those not informed on the topic of financial reports, but those that have some insight on that topic would find it boring and not as informative as expected.
I also found several issues repeated, and other topics just to vague to be of much use.
service was great.......2005-09-26
I got the item quickly. It was the correct item and in excellent condition.
Too basic and the title is really a misnomer.......2005-03-09
Given the promise of the book's title, I was disappointed. "The Financial Numbers Game" is really alomst a misnomer as the book spends many pages on explanations of basic accounting principles - much like an introductory textbook - and then discussed some of the more obvious creative accounting practices. What you do get from this textbook is an overall solid overview of basic GAAP, with a large number of real world examples (which is good). What you don't get is real insight into some of the more interesting ways companies use to manage earnings and their balance sheet. For example, I could not find anything on special purpose entities, off balance sheet financing, dirty surplus accounting, a meaningful discussion of EBITDA beyond the basics, and anything beyond the obvious, really. I also thought the discussion of receivable days was problematic (chapter eight). This may go into too much detail but the authors calculate this ratio based on the ending balance of accounts receivable rather than some average (eg, beginning and ending balance if nothing else is at hand). This actually distorts the ratio and results in an incorrect analysis of the development of receivables where they change between periods. This is not good for two academics.
As previous reviewers pointed out, the book has too many repetitions which a good editor should have caught.
I like the solid accounting overview and the multitude of examples the text provides and that merits three stars. If you are an MBA student who is interested in an accounting refresher, this may be a book for you. If on the other hand you are a professional analyst or investor - what the authors call serious readers of financial statements in their preface - then this will disappoint you.
Highly Recommended!.......2004-06-07
A special note in the preface of this book explains that it went to press just as the Enron story was beginning to break. Three of its chapters provide almost all the information anyone would have needed to spot the problems at Enron, not to mention at the other big corporations whose scandals made recent headlines. Spotting fraud isn't that hard. The authors provide a very useful toolkit that even a novice investor can use. Some of their coverage of the regulatory apparatus will no doubt have to be changed in future editions, as the regulations themselves keep changing, but this enlightening introduction to the nitty-gritty of skeptical financial statement analysis will have enduring utility. It's written by accountants, so it gets a bit plodding in spots, but their anecdotes relieve the tedium and their information is invaluable. We recommend this reality check for every investor's bookshelf, as well as every employee's and every financial reporter's. Anyone who depends on corporate performance or who uses corporate financial statements should read it.
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