In this reader, students learn how to add using playground activities. Hopscotch, slides, and swings become part of the addition problems as students learn that addition means joining two things toget
This reader shows that bakery items are not on the shelf for long. As the bakery items such as cupcakes, pan dulce, and pies are purchased, students learn about subtraction.
This reader shows students how to compare quantities as they read about life in a pond. Students must count to find out how many plants or animals are in the photographs. Then students compare the qua
The focus of this reader is counting toys. Students count toys from one to twenty. Each page contains the target numeral and corresponding number of toys. Students read the corresponding number word w
A handbook in the truest sense of the word, the first edition of the Operations Research Calculations Handbook quickly became an indispensible resource. While other books available tend to give detail
A single source guide to operations research (OR) techniques, this book covers emerging OR methodologies in a clear, concise, and unified manner. Building a bridge between theory and practice, it begi
Ravindran (industrial and manufacturing engineering, Pennsylvania State U.) has edited this guide of operations research applications for students and practitioners who may not be experts in software
Presents a look at the United States Marine Corps' reconnaissance battalions, including information on their beginnings, assignments, training, equipment, and successful missions.
Long a mainstay of manufacturing, industrial engineering has expanded into transportation, health care, logistics, services and nearly every other aspect of doing business. Cassady (industrial enginee
The two international financial organizations report on their program to relieve poverty in 10 selected Asian, European, African, and Latin American countries. The evaluations were made at the most th
This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-sized
This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how. Further, it proposes an integrated c
The proceedings volume consists of academic papers on decision-making under uncertainty, smart decision, stochastic optimization, management simulation and its applications. It presents some compellin
This book offers a simple introduction to the theory and practice of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. AHP is an intuitive and m
30 up-to-date case studies illuminate every aspect of modern supply chain management • Risk management, analytics, global supply chain issues, and much more • Innovative processes,
This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times. The general context considered here is that a seller replenishes its inventory i
Traditionally, Lean has been thought of as a "pen and pencil" technique. While most books covering Lean barely discuss the role and impact of technology, this book makes the case that technology is in
This book provides a new modeling approach for portfolio optimization problems involving a lack of sufficient historical data. The content mainly reflects the author’s extensive work on uncertainty po
This book is dedicated to the issues and complexities of industrial services supply chain management. It analyzes how the transition from products to services can be managed, and how supply chains can
