How would you like to be able to see into the future? If so, you should be a statistician (stat uh uhn) when you grow up! The word statistician means "a person who works with statistics (stuh ...
Bridges, mines, machines
A great, shining bridge across a broad river. A vehicle speeding through the cold darkness of space, toward another planet. A new kind of plastic, one that's tougher than steel. A giant electric...
Stars, comets, planets
The stars that twinkle in the sky at night are tremendously far away. Even the closest one, called Proxima Centauri suh muh sen eye), is some twenty-five million million miles (forty million...
Costs, profits, losses
Suppose that one hot summer afternoon you decide to go into business selling glasses of cool lemonade to thirsty people. It would be fun, of course, but you would probably also hope to make some...
Atoms, electrons, forces
> Scientists called physicists use a lot of mathematics in their work. > As you can see, they use letters and symbols more often than numbers. On a desert in New Mexico, a large number of people...
Solving problems
Mathematicians used computers to help plan and launch this space shuttle. Far, far above the blue and white globe of the Earth, a strange machine, shaped much like a windmill, rushes out into the...
People who work with numbers and shapes
The astronomer scans the depths of space To find an unknown star. But how will he know its distance? Mathematics soon tells him how far! The engineer plans a gleaming bridge, To span a broad, blue...