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Creative Mathematics: Exploring Children's Understanding
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Creative Mathematics: Exploring Children's UnderstandingThis book shows how creative math can really work. Exploring the ways in which math skills can be learned through cross-curicular activities based on visual arts and music, the book presents math as a meaningful and exciting subject which holds no fear for children. The authors recognize that while math-phobia prevails, attitudes and approaches to teaching the subject need to be reviewed, and issues such as gender stereotyping need to be tackled at an early stage. These classroom-based stories include detailed examples of integrative mathematic projects.
 
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
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 Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham aims at integrating documentary and archaeological evidence together, and also, above all, at creating a comparative history of the period 400-800, by means of systematic comparative analyses of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt (only the Slav areas are left out).
 
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Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children
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Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young ChildrenThis book presents a 'hot topic'--critical literacy--in a unique setting: a junior kindergarten....Most people, teachers in particular, think primary age kids, let alone preschoolers, are too young for this. Vivian shows not only that it can be done, but that done well (and her practice was certainly gorgeous), it promotes a depth of learning that teachers, parents, and even the kids themselves recognize....The case she makes for critical literacy being not only powerful but pleasurable and hopeful is important and often missing from other books on the subject....What an extraordinary achievement and what an extraordinary contribution to the fields of early childhood education, early literacy, and language education!
 
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Life and Thought in the Early Middle Ages
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Life and Thought in the Early Middle AgesEight historians discuss:

The Image of Christ in the Early Middle Ages
The Barbarian Kings of Lawgivers and Judges
Towns and Trade
The Two Levels of Feudalism
The Life of the Silent Majority
Beowulf and Bede
Viking - Tunnit - Eskimo
The Church Reform and Renaissance
 
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The Birth of Science - Ancient Times to 1699
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The Birth of Science - Ancient Times to 1699Examining the scientific ideas developed by the early Greek philosophers, the developments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and the momentous discoveries of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, this volume looks at the early years of scientific thought and discovery. Covering figures as well known as Aristotle and Newton, The Birth of Science: Ancient Times to 1699 also looks beyond the specific contributions of key individuals and offers a more inclusive, world view of the early days of science.
 
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