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Understanding Mathematical Proof

By: John Taylor,Rowan Garnier

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Understanding Mathematical Proof

By: John Taylor,Rowan Garnier

The notion of proof is central to mathematics yet it is one of the most difficult aspects of the subject to teach and master. In particular, undergraduate mathematics students often experience difficulties in understanding and constructing proofs.Understanding Mathematical Proof describes the nature of mathematical proof, explores the various techn

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Move On Maths! Ages 7-9

50+ Flexible Maths Activities

By: John Taylor

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Move On Maths! Ages 7-9

50+ Flexible Maths Activities

By: John Taylor

Move on Maths! offers versatile, tried and tested maths resources for 7-9 years for you to use in the way that is most suitable for your pupils. The units give you flexible ideas, rather then prescriptive lessons and support the Renewed Primary Framework for mathematics. The PNS Framework objectives are clearly shown for every sheet, followed by unit learning outcomes, so it’s easy to choose the right worksheet to suit you and your children’s needs. Contains more than fifty stand-alone photocopiable units in four strands to be used in class or as homework tasks, complete with teachers' notes and answers to help your planning Broadens understanding of four key numeracy strands from the Renewed Primary Framework: Using and applying mathematics; Understanding Shape; Measuring; Handling Data Contains a bank of short, sharp exercises, problems and fun starter activities and games to kick start your maths lesson with the whole class Includes challenges to extend your gifted and talented learners or early finishers Covers PNS Framework objectives and learning outcomes for a two year span, Year 3 and 4 Ideal for mixed-age classes

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Routledge

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1136029184

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Balliol College: A History, Second Edition

REISSUE, WITH REVISIONS

By: John Jones

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Balliol College: A History, Second Edition

REISSUE, WITH REVISIONS

By: John Jones

This is an admirably scholarly work, and a good read too. Its illustrations and plans are well chosen . . . John Jones gives us a great deal of new and detailed information about many aspects of the College's life, and some balanced revisions of traditional judgements. It will remain the standard work for a long time.' Christopher Hill

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Oxford University Press

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0199201811

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Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

By: Alan G. Smith,Robert Edgar,John Marland

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Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

By: Alan G. Smith,Robert Edgar,John Marland

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of England's rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardy's world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501384015

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Exploring Mathematics

An Engaging Introduction to Proof

By: John Meier,Derek Smith

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Exploring Mathematics

An Engaging Introduction to Proof

By: John Meier,Derek Smith

With exercises and projects, Exploring Mathematics supports an active approach to the transition to upper-level theoretical math courses.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107128986

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Common Worship: Saints on Earth paperback edition

A Biographical Companion to Common Worship

By: John H. Darch,Stuart K. Burns

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Common Worship: Saints on Earth paperback edition

A Biographical Companion to Common Worship

By: John H. Darch,Stuart K. Burns

Offering an inspiring mix of history and biography, Saints on Earth tells the stories of the diverse people commemorated in the Common Worship calendar of Holy Days, with over 250 saints’ days, festivals and commemorations that greatly enrich the Christian year. This wide-ranging selection of spiritually significant men and women features Celtic and Catholic saints, Reformers, Tractarians, bishops and missionaries together with poets, writers, martyrs, social reformers, kings and queens. Recent heroes and heroines of faith, both Anglican and from other Christian traditions, are celebrated alongside those who inspired the Early Church. This versatile companion is a rich source of inspiration for preaching and leading prayers and worship throughout the year. It is now updated to include figures added to the Common Worship calendar in recent years.

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Church House Publishing

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1781400598

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EBOOK: Teaching for Quality Learning at University

By: John Biggs,Catherine Tang

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EBOOK: Teaching for Quality Learning at University

By: John Biggs,Catherine Tang

This book is an exceptional introduction to some difficult ideas. It is full of downright good advice for every academic who wants to do something practical to improve his or hers students’ learning." Paul Ramsden, Brisbane, Australia "Biggs and Tang present a unified view of university teaching that is both grounded in research and theory and replete with guidance for novice and expert instructors. The book will inspire, challenge, unsettle, and in places annoy and even infuriate its readers, but it will succeed in helping them think about how high quality teaching can contribute to high quality learning." John Kirby, Queens University, Ontario, Canada This best-selling book explains the concept of constructive alignment used in implementing outcomes-based education. Constructive alignment identifies the desired learning outcomes and helps teachers design the teaching and learning activities that will help students to achieve those outcomes, and to assess how well those outcomes have been achieved. Each chapter includes tasks that offer a 'how-to' manual to implement constructive alignment in your own teaching practices. This new edition draws on the authors' experience of consulting on the implementation of constructive alignment in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland and Malaysia including a wider range of disciplines and teaching contexts. There is also a new section on the evaluation of constructive alignment, which is now used worldwide as a framework for good teaching and assessment, as it has been shown to: Assist university teachers who wish to improve the quality of their own teaching, their students' learning and their assessment of learning outcomes Aid staff developers in providing support for departments in line with institutional policies Provide a framework for administrators interested in quality assurance and enhancement of teaching across the whole university. The authors have also included useful web links to further material. Teaching for Quality Learning at University will be of particular interest to teachers, staff developers and administrators.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335242766

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Probability and Statistics

The Science of Uncertainty

By: John Tabak

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Probability and Statistics

The Science of Uncertainty

By: John Tabak

Presents a survey of the history and evolution of the branch of mathematics that focuses on probability and statistics, including useful applications and notable mathematicians in this area.

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0816068739

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Move On Maths Ages 9-11

50+ Flexible Maths Activities

By: John Taylor

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Move On Maths Ages 9-11

50+ Flexible Maths Activities

By: John Taylor

Move on Maths! offers versatile, tried and tested maths resources for nine to eleven years for you to use in the way that is most suitable for your pupils. The units give you flexible ideas, rather then prescriptive lessons and support the Renewed Primary Framework for mathematics. The PNS Framework objectives are clearly shown for every sheet, followed by unit learning outcomes, so it’s easy to choose the right worksheet to suit you and your children’s needs. contains more than fifty stand-alone photocopiable units in four strands to be used in class or as homework tasks, complete with teachers' notes and answers to help your planning broadens understanding of four key numeracy strands from the Renewed Primary Framework: Using and applying mathematics; Understanding Shape; Measuring; Handling Data contains a bank of short, sharp exercises, problems and fun starter activities and games to kick start your maths lesson with the whole class includes challenges to extend your gifted and talented learners or early finishers covers PNS Framework objectives and learning outcomes for a two year span, Year 5 and 6 ideal for mixed-age classes.

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1136029427

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Statistics for Business and Financial Economics

By: Cheng F. Lee,John C. Lee,Alice C. Lee

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Statistics for Business and Financial Economics

By: Cheng F. Lee,John C. Lee,Alice C. Lee

This text integrates various statistical techniques with concepts from business, economics and finance, and demonstrates the power of statistical methods in the real world of business. This edition places more emphasis on finance, economics and accounting concepts with updated sample data.

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World Scientific

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9810234856

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Statistics for Business and Financial Economics

By: Cheng-Few Lee,John C. Lee,Alice C. Lee

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Statistics for Business and Financial Economics

By: Cheng-Few Lee,John C. Lee,Alice C. Lee

Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd edition is the definitive Business Statistics book to use Finance, Economics, and Accounting data throughout the entire book. Therefore, this book gives students an understanding of how to apply the methodology of statistics to real world situations. In particular, this book shows how descriptive statistics, probability, statistical distributions, statistical inference, regression methods, and statistical decision theory can be used to analyze individual stock price, stock index, stock rate of return, market rate of return, and decision making. In addition, this book also shows how time-series analysis and the statistical decision theory method can be used to analyze accounting and financial data. In this fully-revised edition, the real world examples have been reconfigured and sections have been edited for better understanding of the topics. On the Springer page for the book, the solution manual, test bank and powerpoints are available for download.

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1461458978

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The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873

Volumes XIV-XVII

By: John Stuart Mill

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The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873

Volumes XIV-XVII

By: John Stuart Mill

The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence. These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never before published, and some sixty earlier letters that have come to light since the publication of the first two volumes of correspondence. The letters have been assembled from widely dispersed collections in the libraries of fifty-eight institutions and of some thirty private collections in Britain and in other countries of the Commonwealth, Europe, and North America. In addition, many personal letters of which no originals survived have been located in contemporary periodicals or biographies of Mill's correspondence.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442638672

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William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. Author of 'a Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life' &c. Formerly Follow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Sketch of His Life, Character, and Opinions

By: John Henry Overton

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William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. Author of 'a Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life' &c. Formerly Follow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Sketch of His Life, Character, and Opinions

By: John Henry Overton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385432235

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Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended Study and Revision Guide 3rd edition

By: John Jeskins,Jean Matthews,Mike Handbury,Eddie Wilde

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Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended Study and Revision Guide 3rd edition

By: John Jeskins,Jean Matthews,Mike Handbury,Eddie Wilde

Send students into their exam with the confidence to achieve their maximum potential using step-by-step guidance that helps to practise skills learned and improve exam technique. - Offers differentiation with core and extended material clearly - Build students' skills constructing and writing answers with a range of practice and exam-style questions - Easily identify areas for improvement with the answers in the back of the book - Help students target their revision and focus on important concepts and skills with key objectives at the beginning of every chapter - Ensure that students maximise their time in the exam by including examiner's tips and suggestions on how to approach questions This Study and Revision Guide is for the Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics syllabus (0580/0980) for last examination in 2024. This title has not been through the Cambridge Assessment International Education endorsement process. Available in this series: Student Textbook Fourth edition (ISBN 9781510421684) Workbook (ISBN 9781510421707) Student Book Boost eBook (ISBN 9781398333871) Boost Core Subscription (ISBN 9781398341067) Study and Revision Guide (ISBN 9781510421714)

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Hodder Education

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1510420738

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Introduction to Probability

By: John E. Freund

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Introduction to Probability

By: John E. Freund

Featured topics include permutations and factorials, probabilities and odds, frequency interpretation, mathematical expectation, decision making, postulates of probability, rule of elimination, much more. Exercises with some solutions. Summary. 1973 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486158438

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Active Assessment in English

Thinking, Learning and Assessment in English

By: Brenda Keogh,John Dabell,Stuart Naylor

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Active Assessment in English

Thinking, Learning and Assessment in English

By: Brenda Keogh,John Dabell,Stuart Naylor

The authors show how thinking, learning and assessment can be linked together in a creative and integrated fashion, so that thinking promotes learning, learning enables assessment to take place and assessment acts as a stimulus to both thinking and learning.

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1843124696

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Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba

By: John David Yeadon Peel,J. D. Y. Peel

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Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba

By: John David Yeadon Peel,J. D. Y. Peel

Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." —History Today "[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." —T. C. McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.

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Indiana University Press

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0253215889

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John E. Freund's Mathematical Statistics

By: John E. Freund,Irwin Miller,Marylees Miller

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John E. Freund's Mathematical Statistics

By: John E. Freund,Irwin Miller,Marylees Miller

For a two-semester or a three-quarter calculus-based Introduction to the Mathematics of Statistics course. This classic, calculus-based introduction to the theory - and application - of statistics provides an unusually comprehensive depth and breadth of coverage and reflects the state-of-the-art in statistical thinking, the teaching of statistics, and current practices - including the use of the computer. *NEW - Places greater emphasis on the use of computers in performing statistical calculations. *NEW - Includes new exercises - many of which require the use of a computer. *NEW - Expands coverage of Analysis of Variance to include the two-way analysis-of-variance model with interaction and a discussion of multiple comparisons. *NEW - Adds appendices which summarize the properties of the special probability distributions and density functions that appear in the text. *Places greater emphasis on the use of computers in performing statistical calculations. *Comprehensive coverage of statistical theories. *Features more than 1,100 problems and exercises - divided into theory and applications.

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Pearson Educación

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9701703898

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Lost Tribe of the Sith: Star Wars Legends: The Collected Stories

By: John Jackson Miller

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Lost Tribe of the Sith: Star Wars Legends: The Collected Stories

By: John Jackson Miller

At last in one volume, the eight original installments of the epic Lost Tribe of the Sith eBook series . . . along with the explosive, never-before-published finale, Pandemonium—more than one hundred pages of new material! Five thousand years ago. After a Jedi ambush, the Sith mining ship Omen lies wrecked on a remote, unknown planet. Its commander, Yaru Korsin, battles the bloodshed of a mutinous faction led by his own brother. Marooned and facing death, the Sith crew have no choice but to venture into their desolate surroundings. They face any number of brutal challenges—vicious predators, lethal plagues, tribal people who worship vengeful gods—and like true Sith warriors, counter them with the dark side of the Force. The struggles are just beginning for the proud, uncompromising Sith, driven as they are to rule at all costs. They will vanquish the primitive natives, and they will find their way back to their true destiny as rulers of the galaxy. But as their legacy grows over thousands of years, the Sith ultimately find themselves tested by the most dangerous threat of all: the enemy within.

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Random House Worlds

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0345541324

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Mathematics at Home

Practical Activities for Parents and Children

By: John Davis

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Mathematics at Home

Practical Activities for Parents and Children

By: John Davis

How can teachers help parents to get involved with their children's learning? Maths at home is full of activities designed to fit in with the Key Stage 2 Numeracy topics. Teachers can photocopy the appropriate sheet and send it home for parents and children to work on together. Each activity has a set of explanatory notes for teachers and a photocopiable worksheet. Instructions to parents are clearly presented, with resources listed. The activities are practical and enjoyable, covering everyday mathematical tasks, such as calculating shopping bills, estimating quantities and looking at timetables. Children are also encouraged to apply their mathematical skills and understanding to these practical tasks, for example by converting cooking time information into a graph. John Davis sets out to develop children's enthusiasm for maths and to build up parents' confidence in helping their children in what can often be a daunting area of the curriculum. A full glossary of terms used is included at the end of the book to provide extra information for parents if they need to give any further explanation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441159037

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To Give or Not to Give

Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability

By: John Rowell

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To Give or Not to Give

Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability

By: John Rowell

John Rowell sets out a program that will enable affluent churches in the West to give generously across cultures without fear of promoting dependent, hierarchical relationships.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830857737

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Activities Linking Science with Math, K-4

By: John Eichinger

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Activities Linking Science with Math, K-4

By: John Eichinger

Science does not exist in a vacuum and, therefore, shouldn't be taught that way. In that spirit, Activities Linking Science With Math, K-4, is a hands-on guide for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of studyincluding visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math.

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NSTA Press

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1935155490

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Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations

The Politics of British Churches, Cemeteries and War Graves in Turkey, 1825 to 1976

By: John Fisher

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Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations

The Politics of British Churches, Cemeteries and War Graves in Turkey, 1825 to 1976

By: John Fisher

This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other Great Powers. The period covered is from the demise of the Levant Company in 1825, to the deconsecration of the Crimean Memorial Church in Istanbul, in 1976. Other sacred spaces discussed include the British Embassy Chapel, the Crimean War cemeteries, various British churches and cemeteries in Izmir, the Gallipoli cemeteries, connected with the campaign of 1915, and the Phanar, the Ecumenical Patriarch's home in Istanbul. The book considers how, and to what extent, the Foreign Office in London, and its staff in Turkey, intervened to secure those spaces, and why the politics of the Patriarchate intruded into the Foreign Office's geo-strategic considerations. It considers the limits of that support, and how dealings over sacred space intermeshed generally with British policy towards Turkey. It further explores the motives, not just of diplomats and consuls, who were instrumental in establishing or safeguarding those spaces, but also the aims of other organisations and of expatriate Britons, who were similarly involved. It also considers instances where such support became attenuated or was withdrawn. The book is unique in illuminating, in a broad fashion, the role of sacred space in the context of Anglo-Turkish relations, and British power projection in the Near East.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755654633

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Introduction to Combinatorics

By: Walter D. Wallis,John C. George

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Introduction to Combinatorics

By: Walter D. Wallis,John C. George

What Is Combinatorics Anyway? Broadly speaking, combinatorics is the branch of mathematics dealing with different ways of selecting objects from a set or arranging objects. It tries to answer two major kinds of questions, namely, counting questions: how many ways can a selection or arrangement be chosen with a particular set of properties; and structural questions: does there exist a selection or arrangement of objects with a particular set of properties? The authors have presented a text for students at all levels of preparation. For some, this will be the first course where the students see several real proofs. Others will have a good background in linear algebra, will have completed the calculus stream, and will have started abstract algebra. The text starts by briefly discussing several examples of typical combinatorial problems to give the reader a better idea of what the subject covers. The next chapters explore enumerative ideas and also probability. It then moves on to enumerative functions and the relations between them, and generating functions and recurrences., Important families of functions, or numbers and then theorems are presented. Brief introductions to computer algebra and group theory come next. Structures of particular interest in combinatorics: posets, graphs, codes, Latin squares, and experimental designs follow. The authors conclude with further discussion of the interaction between linear algebra and combinatorics. Features Two new chapters on probability and posets. Numerous new illustrations, exercises, and problems. More examples on current technology use A thorough focus on accuracy Three appendices: sets, induction and proof techniques, vectors and matrices, and biographies with historical notes, Flexible use of MapleTM and MathematicaTM

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CRC Press

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1498777635

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1889-1892

Early Essays and Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

By: John Dewey

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1889-1892

Early Essays and Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics

By: John Dewey

This third volume in the definitive edition of Dewey's early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brought Dewey to the University of Michigan. Morris's death in 1889 left vacant the Department of Philosophy chairmanship and led to Dewey's returning to fill that post after a year's stay at Minnesota. Appearing here, among all his writings from 1889 through 1892, are Dewey's earliest comprehensive statements on logic and his first book on ethics. Dewey's marked copy of the galley-proof for his important article The Present Position of Logical Theory, recently discovered among the papers of the Open Court Publishing Company, is used as the basis for the text, making available for the first time his final changes and corrections. The textual studies that make The Early Works unique among American philosophical editions are reported in detail. One of these, A Note on Applied Psychology, documents the fact that Dewey did not co-author this book frequently attributed to him. Six brief unsigned articles written in 1891 for a University of Michigan student publication, the Inlander, have been identified as Dewey's and are also included in this volume. In both style and content, these articles reflect Dewey's conviction that philosophy should be used as a means of illuminating the contemporary scene; thus they add a new dimension to present knowledge of his early writing.

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