World History: Patterns of Interaction focuses on key concepts, themes, and patterns of interaction found throughout history. High-interest, engaging visuals and interactive features help make history accessible to all students. Tips and activities for struggling readers, English Language Learners, and gifted and talented students along with customized test preparation provide support to a wide range of students. First-hand accounts of history and document-based questions help students develop and improve their critical-thinking skills.
Visual Math has been designed to allow learners to "see" why math makes sense. By combining logical math concepts with pictures, previously unclear images will fade and math will suddenly click for you. Pictures, graphs, and diagrams help you understand math questions in the areas of number concepts and properties, fractions and decimals, ratios and proportions, percents, algebra, geometry, and much more. Designed especially for students who have difficulty with conventional math rules, this book gives you step-by step instructions with pictures to help you solve math problems.
World Cultures and Geography takes a regional approach in examining the history, culture, geography, government, and economics of the world. Designed specifically for middle school, the program invites students to explore the rich cultures of their world with engaging visuals in the textbook. World Cultures and Geography asks essential questions which motivate students to explore the connections between geography, history, culture, government, and economics. The material encourages students to compare similarities and differences across cultures.
Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. * Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory. * Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals. * Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses. * Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily. * Written by an established author with an international reputation.
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