Lecture Ready Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion prepares students to deal with academic lectures with skill and confidence.The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to provide practice in maintaining focus on the essential core of a lecture.
This video contains the filmed lectures that are the centerpiece of each student book chapter. Lectures can be viewed with subtitles. Targeted listening exercises are available on the audio program. 10 filmed lectures accompaning the chapters with verbal and non-verbal language markers.
The benefits of learning by computer are highlighted in this software package for nonnative speakers of English preparing for the TOEFL exam. POWERPREP software allows users to become accustomed to the speed at which the listening materials are presented and to hear English as it is spoken in North America. It also simulates actual testing conditions so test takers become familiar with directions and strategies for all for sections of the exam.
Added by: SLar | Karma: 335.46 | Other exams, Maths | 10 July 2008
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Aha! Gotcha is filled with very different types of puzzles than aha! Insight, which has many problems to solve. This book just presents many fun paradoxes that make you use your head, and while some of them are problems you have to take some time to solve, most are short paradoxical situations that you can think about for a short while and then go on the next page. It is easy to read, and Gardner again shows his skill in explaining interesting phenomena in a clear and interesting way. All the problems are good exercises on logical thinking and introduces various concepts of mathematics and statistics without seeming like you're studying.
Added by: SLar | Karma: 335.46 | Other exams, Maths | 10 July 2008
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Martin Gardner can be considered one of the best there ever was in writing about mathematics. His essays are always entertaining and contain enough content to suggest other applications of the main point of his thesis. This book contains a series of short puzzles, most of which have quick solutions based on an "alternate" form of reasoning. That form is described as an "Aha" moment, where looking at the problem a different way leads to a simple solution to what appears to be a hard problem.
