This book provides the skills and strategies students need to be successful readers in many categories such as reading drama and reading graphics.

A math resource for school and home.

Includes an almanac with math prefixes and suffixes, study tips, guidelines for using software, a graphing calculator, test-taking strategies and tables. For use with any math program.

- A reference guide to empower students to become more responsible for their own learning, reviewing, relearning, and researching- Explanations and examples to complement any textbook and teach difficult topics- Cross curricular resources packed with conversion tables, time zones, map reading, and more

This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-trenches practical experience, the authors teach you how to describe objects and their positions, orientations, and trajectories in 3D using mathematics. The text provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including the fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices. It also covers orientation in three dimensions, calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves.