What is number sense? How does children's number sense develop? What are the most effective teaching methods and resources? How can research findings inform classroom practice? The fully revised second edition of the best-selling "Teaching Number Sense" is the book to help you answer these questions, and more.
Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology
Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories—selection, adaptation, and species—that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the discipline.
Mindworks: Unlock the Promise Within : Nlp Tools for Building a Better Life
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a group of psychological techniques developed in the early 1970s, has been a huge influence on today's motivational writers (particularly Tony Robbins). As its name suggests, NLP is based on the idea that the human mind is a sort of computer; our verbal and body language are the programming that allows us to change our thoughts and influence other people.
Commas is one of the first books in the new "Teaching the Boring Stuff" series. With short, easy-to-digest activities that have a sense of humor, students learn to use commas correctly. At the same time they also learn a great deal about sentence structure. Commas presents material in an interesting way, using language that makes sense to kids. Best of all, it has students using what they learn - and helps them perform better on assessment tests as well.
HISTORY, in the widest usage of the word, is the study of events, the discovery and record of what happens; when we speak of Natural History, for example, we mean nothing less than the study of what goes on in Nature, the world about us. In a rather narrower sense, the "historical" sciences are those in which we cannot make experiments, but are limited to studying what goes on, in that order of time in which things happen to occur.
