A collection of 50 songs and chants about the major holidays celebrated in the United States.The holidays are grouped according to calendar months. In August and September, seasonal themes are featured instead of specific holidays. The songs and chants focus on the vocabulary, expressions and language functions used in connection with each holiday. They also act as a springboard for teaching each holiday's meaning and cultural associations.
This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems (graphic, non-phonetic systems for representing numbers), encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies progressive, unilinear evolutionary models of change, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, using a cultural phylogenetic framework to show relationships between systems and to create a general theory of change in numerical systems.