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Scottish Wit and Wisdom - The Meanings Behind Famous Scottish Sayings
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Scottish Wit and Wisdom - The Meanings Behind Famous Scottish Sayings

This little book celebrates everything that is finest about the 'Lion in the North'. It is packed with hundreds of examples of Scottish wit and wisdom, it praises the country of tartan and tatties, Burns Nicht and bagpipes, Sir William Wallace and Robert Louis Stevenson.

The 'land of the mountain and the floor', of tartan and tatties, Burns Nicht and bagpipes, is also the land that has spawned writers and poets, statesmen and philosophers, commentators and wits as diverse as William MacGonagall and Hugh MacDiarmid, Sir Walter Scott and Billy Connolly, Arthur Balfour and Muriel Gray, Sir William Wallace...
 
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Twizzlers Percentages Book
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Twizzlers Percentages Book
What better way to introduce the concept of percentages than with delicious Twizzlers candy?
As he's done with fractions, addition, and counting, author and educator Jerry Pallotta teaches percentages in the fun and relaxed way that has become his trademark.
 
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Skittles Riddles Math
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Skittles Riddles Math
Using a blend of fun poetry, clearly written helping text, and riddles, this book takes the mystery out of math and makes solving word problems fun. After all, what is a word problem but a cleverly concealed riddle?
The book focuses on fractions, starting with basic fractions and then moving on to more advanced concepts such as equivalent fractions, reduced fractions, and addition with fractions.
Readers learn to interpret pie-graph representations of fractions and also learn about negative numbers, number sentences, quantity comparisons, and the concept of infinity.
A glossary of math terms and a brief review appear at the end of the book.
 
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Hershey's Milk Chocolate Weights and Measures
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Hershey's Milk Chocolate Weights and Measures

How long is a foot? What is the metric system? What weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of Hershey's candy? Author and educator Jerry Pallotta answers these and lots of other questions as only he can--using Hershey's Kisses, Twizzlers candies, Hershey's chocolate bars, and more to teach weights and measurements. Rob Bolster's comical clowns demonstrate the concepts.This is the eighth book in the series by Pallotta and Bolster, who have taught kids counting by fives, addition, subtraction, fractions, multiplication, percents, shapes, and patterns.


 
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The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book
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The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book
A Hershey's bar is made up of 12 little rectangles, making it the perfect edible tool for teaching fractions!
 
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