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by Marian Small
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the second book in the Uncomplicating Mathematics Series, professional developer Marian Small shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of algebra by focusing on the most important ideas that students need to grasp. Organized by grade level around the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics,...
by Richard J. Trudeau
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Aimed at "the mathematically traumatized," this text offers nontechnical coverage of graph theory, with exercises. Discusses planar graphs, Euler's formula, Platonic graphs, coloring, the genus of a graph, Euler walks, Hamilton walks, more. 1976 edition.
by Arthur Benjamin, Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Graph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs—mathematical structures showing relations between objects. With applications in biology, computer science, transportation science, and other areas, graph theory encompasses some of the most beautiful formulas in mathematics—and...
How Math Works
A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math. Is it our fear of math that constrains us? Or our inability to understand math’s place in relation to our everyday lives? How can we help our children better understand...
Let's Hear It for the Girls
375 Great Books for Readers 2-14
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
"Bravo! They've given adults and young girls a much-needed treasure map of heroines and 'she-roes'...It blazes an important path in the forest of children's literature."-Jim Trelease.
Teaching History with Film
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas...
The Read-Aloud Handbook
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
** A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated**
Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved...
Growing Without Schooling
The Complete Collection, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The second volume of GWS issues covers the years 1981 and 1982, when homeschooling gained attention in the media after John Holt’s Teach Your Own was published and he made a second appearance on national TV’s Phil Donahue Show, which resulted in thousands of letters to Holt regarding homeschooling....
The Great Expectations School
A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
At the age of twenty-two, Dan Brown came to P.S. 85 as an eager, fresh-faced teacher. He was even as-signed his own class: 4-217. Unbeknownst to him, 4-217 was the designated dumping ground” for all fourth-grade problem cases, and his students would prove to be more challenging than he could have...
Design for 3D Printing
Scanning, Creating, Editing, Remixing, and Making in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
France's Le FabShop has extensive experience testing 3D printers and creating digital models for them. From an articulated Makey Robot to a posable elephant model, Samuel N. Bernier and the rest of Le FabShop's team have created some of the most-printed designs in the 3D printing world. This book...
Getting Started with 3D Printing
A Hands-on Guide to the Hardware, Software, and Services Behind the New Manufacturing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Make: Getting Started with 3D Printing is a practical, informative, and inspiring book that guides readers step-by-step through understanding how this new technology will empower them to take full advantage of all it has to offer. The book includes fundamental topics such as a short history of 3D...
Make: Rockets
Down-to-Earth Rocket Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety, and educational experience.Make: Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in...
by Shelly C. Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Animals have senses just like we do, but their senses work much differently than ours. Birds eyes don’t move at all and some insects use their feet to smell things! Find out about the unique ways in which animals use their senses in this fact-filled e-book! High-interest text paired with colorful...
Inventing a Better Mousetrap
200 Years of American History in the Amazing World of Patent Models
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica!Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial...