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How can you consistently pull off hands-on tinkering with kids? How do you deal with questions that you can't answer? How do you know if tinkering kids are learning anything or not? Is there a line between fooling around with real stuff and learning? The idea of learning through tinkering is not so radical. From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively by getting our hands dirty and making careful...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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Using a full-color illustrated approach, a guide to parental math tutoring looks at every aspect of the challenging subject, from simple sums to simultaneous equations, in a book with simple explanations and clear illustrations that parents can share with their children.
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Teacher Aidan Dunne, passed over for the principal's job, is instead offered a post as head of a new evening school where he somewhat assuages his dream of visiting Italy by offering classes in Italian and draws an assortment of students whose lives are all transformed by the vivacious instructor, Nora O'Donoghue.
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2003
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Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your twenty-first-century life. More than three quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for...
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IVP Books an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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The Bible is the written Word of God, and it is treasured by many. But it is also an ancient book about people and cultures very different than what now exists. Thus, while Christians know they should read it, many of them have a hard time understanding the Bible. In this updated edition of Knowing Scripture, R. C. Sproul helps dig out the meaning of Scripture for personal understanding. The author says, 'The theme of this book is not how to read...
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Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2012
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With clear graphics, instantly understandable diagrams, and welcoming, jargon-free text--covering all the important areas of biology, chemistry and physics--this comprehensive and stress-free approach to science is a great resource for children and adults to learn even the most complex science problems with confidence. Full color.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Parents often are challenged to find ways to help their children be successful in their learning endeavors. They want to be involved in their children's education, but are often unsure of the best ways to help their children to succeed academically. This book offers parents a resource they can use to navigate their child's education, communicate with teachers, and support their children in learning mathematics and literacy. After providing an overview...
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Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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"The book starts with an account of the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in November 1620, which is to say that it endorses a very old idea of the best place to catch the first glimmer of the American republic: 1620, not 1619. I'm well aware that the claims of 1620 have their own weaknesses. The country's "very origin," as the Times puts it, isn't something that can be settled once and for all. Many threads from many origins all eventually...
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Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2016.
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Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely work. So why? Because writing, as celebrated professor Mark Edmundson explains, is one of the greatest human goods. Real writing can do what critic R. P. Blackmur said it could:...
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Da Capo Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2016.
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One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill the blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew_." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking, but all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe and supportive place in the classroom.
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