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This is a collection of approximately 130 posters/photographs covering many aspects of the Holocaust. They are filed according to the subject areas of "Before the War", "Rise of the Nazis", "Persecution", "Ghettos", "Escape", "Deportation", "Resistance", "Final Solution" and "Aftermath and trials".
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"Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, has followed thousands of students through middle and high schools studying their learning of mathematics and the most effective ways to help them become high achievers. In this book, she shows teachers and parents how to unleash the math potential in all students. Contents include The Brain and Mathematics Learning The Power of Mistakes and Struggle What Is Math Really? Creating Mathematical...
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New preface for 2018 edition : For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be “objective.
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching...
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DK
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2019.
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English
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Perplexed by plate tectonics? Confused by climates? Disorientated by demographics? Help Your Kids With Geography helps parents to get a grasp on what their children learn in geography class by exploring all these topics and more. Covering all the important areas of human and physical geography, from geopolitics to geology, and from coastal erosion to cultural migration, Help Your Kids With Geography presents information in a visually appealing way...
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"'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks— those that are honest about the past and those that are not— that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves." --
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick.
“A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero
At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently....
“A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero
At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently....
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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[2023]
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English
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"Teaching Your Kids New Math, Grades 6-8, For Dummies teaches you the new standard way of teaching kids math. It's all about thinking through how to solve problems and using strategies, rather than just memorizing the procedures. In this book, parents, guardians, and tutors will learn how to use these methods and standards to effectively teach kids Common Core math for grades 6-8. Teaching Your Kids New Math, Grades 6-8, For Dummies shows you how...
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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[2022]
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English
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"Teaching Your Kids New Math, K-5 For Dummies makes it easy to understand the new math being taught to students in kindergarten to Grade 5, showing parents and guardians how to help their kids with the new methods and concepts that have been introduced since they finished school"--
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Distributed by Questar
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c2006
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English
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Imaginative stories, vivid 3-D animation, clever rhymes, catchy songs, and memorable characters will help second to fourth graders better be able to develop and retain math comprehension while improving problem-solving skills. Each program in this collection has been correlated to all state and national curriculum standards by Plato Learning, a leader in the development of standards-based curriculum.
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LearningExpress
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[2015]
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English
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"In just 15 minutes a day, middle school students can excel at common (and not-so-common) middle and high school math challenges. How? Each lesson gives one small part of the bigger math problem, so each day, students build upon the previous day's work." --
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Catapult
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A practical guide for teachers, students, and writers reveals how popular writing workshops need to adapt to better include marginalized writers, in a reference that explains the role of cultural expectations in informing storytelling.
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