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1. Trailer Tuesday: Unraveling and Zero
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By: Kimberly Pauley, on 4/10/2012
Blog: Young Adult (& Kid's) Books Central (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Trailer Tuesday, Teen Book Trailers, YA Book Trailers, Zero, Young Adult Book Trailers, Elizabeth Norris, Tom Leveen, Unraveling, Add a tag

Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris
Release Date: April 24, 2012
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Zero by Tom Leveen
Release Date: April 24, 2012
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2. Zero the Hero
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By: Mary Lee, on 2/29/2012
Blog: A Year of Reading (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Zero the Hero
by Joan Holub
illustrated by TomLichtenheld
Henry Holt, 2012
review copy provided by the publisher

My students and I loveloveLOVED E-Mergency by Tom Lichtenheld and Ezra Fields-Meyer!!

When I put the poster for Zero the Hero on the chalkboard, excitement was instantaneous.

E-Mergency was a funny look at the way the letters of the alphabet work together (and how our words suffer when the E cannot be used). In Zero the Hero, ("A Book About Nothing"), Zero has all the trappings of a hero -- mask, cape, and pointy boots -- but he doesn't seem to be able to do anything amazing (mathematically speaking) all by himself.

"The thought gave Zero a hollow feeling inside." So he runs rolls away. Without Zero, the other numbers realize they are severely limited. Then, when the Roman Numerals capture the Counting Numbers...well, Zero can finally be a true hero.



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3. Zero the Hero book trailer
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By: MacKids, on 2/7/2012
Blog: MacKids Home (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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When it comes to our book trailers, sometimes it takes a village!While author/illustrator Tom Lichtenheld came up with the concept, and co-author Joan Holub fine tuned the script with her strong background in math and education, we in Marketing had a ton of fun putting it together ~ we used our very own in-house talent (voices!!) and we think we nailed a 10! That's a 1 with a 0 next to it...)

Enjoy the ZERO THE HERO book trailer!

 

 

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4. Big Nothing: The History of Zero
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By: MsLuhks, on 12/6/2010
Blog: Amsco Extra! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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While rocking out to Patti Smith, in celebration of her victory winning the National Book Award, I rediscovered her tribute, “Radio Baghdad.” The song celebrates the Iraqi city’s rich cultural and intellectual history, and as a refrain she specifically mentions its involvement in the invention of zero: “We created the zero/But we mean nothing to you.”

Smith honors Baghdad’s intellectual contribution to the establishment of zero as a number. Zero deserves her praise for its usefulness as a placeholder (as in the number 306), for its role as the additive identity element (if you add zero to any number, you get that number—in symbols, n + 0 = n for any number n), and for its contribution to the development of calculus. As the late writer David Foster Wallace elegantly claimed, “The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldn't divide by zero.” Zero is a game-changer, a distinct value, and the barrier between positive and negative.

The richly informative book 100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time tells the story of Al-Khwarizmi. In 810 A.D., this famous Baghdad mathematician convinced a group of fellow scholars that zero must be a number by demonstrating that zero behaves like a number when subject to common operations. Not only did Al-Khwarizmi thus effectively demonstrate zero as a number, but he also established himself as the founder of algebra. 
I love this story because I think it eloquently demonstrates the following dispositi

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