John Bunyan was a major figure in seventeenth-century Puritan literature, and one deeply embroiled in the religious upheavals of his times. This Companion considers all his major texts, including The Pilgrim's Progress and his autobiography Grace Abounding. The essays, by leading Bunyan scholars, place these and his other works in the context of seventeenth-century history and literature. They discuss such key issues as the publication of dissenting works, the history of the book, gender, the relationship between literature and religion, between literature and early modern radicalism...
In her usual engaging style, Marilyn Burns conveys the role writing can play when incorporated into math lessons. Numerous examples illustrate how students sort, clarify, and define their thinking through different types of writing-journal writing, solving math problems, explaining mathematical ideas, and creative writing about math. This invaluable and inspiring resource also includes assessment strategies, practical teaching tips and suggestions, answers to frequently asked questions, and samples of student work.
Reading and comprehending nonfiction are important activities in the intermediate classroom. This title addresses major mathematical topics such as whole number computation, fractions, percents, sorting, graphing, measurement, data analysis, estimation, averages, and number sense.
These lessons, based on popular children's books, address major mathematical topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, geometry, algebraic thinking, number sense, and place value.
Includes Centipede’s 100 Shoes; A Cloak for the Dreamer; The Greedy Triangle; How Big Is a Foot?; Inch by Inch; The King’s Commissioners; Little House in the Big Woods; Night Noises; One Duck Stuck; One Hundred Hungry Ants; Only One; P. Bear’s New Year’s Party; Pigs Will Be Pigs; Six-Dinner Sid; A Three Hat Day; Two of Everything; and Two Ways to Count to Ten.
The Haidao Suanjing or Sea Island Mathematical Manual, is one of the "Ten Classics" of traditional Chinese mathematics, and its contents demonstrate the high standards of theoretical and mathematical sophistication present in early Chinese surveying theory. The Haidao composed in A.D. 263 by Liu Hui, established the mathematical procedures for much of East Asian surveying activity for the next one thousand years.
