The feature article in this issue is on snowboarding. A lesson plan, “Create Your Own Sporting Event,” continues the sporting theme. Other articles discuss professional development for teachers, writing for Wikipedia, grouping schemes for maximizing language learning, and teaching haiku writing.
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the most often studied short story writers from around the world.The 146 authors, and 800 works covered in this set reflect the range and diversity of nineteenth and twentieth century short-story writing. More than half the authors covered are from the United States, reflecting the strength of the genre in its birthplace. The second largest national grouping is England, added to which are some of the great authors of Ireland and Scotland.
This guide is a perfect overview for the topics covered in introductory statistics courses. Other topics include: * definitions & terms * measures of tendency & dispersion * standard error of the mean * confidence intervals & limits * samples & distributions * grouping of data * discrete & continuous variables * testing hypotheses * Probabilities and more
With thousands of intricate and colorful illustrations presented in a browser-friendly paperback format, the new compact edition of The Macmillan Visual Dictionary is an easily portable follow-up to the popular hardback version. The dictionary connects each phrasing, key word, or key words to a grouping of finely detailed and descriptive pictures, all formatted into a series of sections assembled in an easy-to-follow index at the beginning of the book.
