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This book provides mathematics teachers with an elementary introduction to matrix algebra and its uses in formulating and solving practical problems, solving systems of linear equations, representing combinations of affine (including linear) transformations of the plane and modelling finite state Markov chains.
This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward. At the heart of this book is the cultivation of tension between official and unofficial portraits of these students. Official portraits are composed of demographic data, socioeconomic data, and test results. Unofficial counterportraits offer different views of children, schools, and communities. The big ideas of official and unofficial portraits are pr...
“It’s Not the Heat, it’s the Humidity, Stupid!” chronicles the life of Nick Finch, the fifth of five children of J.W. and Charlene Finch from the post WW II meeting of his parents to his life growing up in one of the most unique places in the United States, Palm Beach County. Follow his journey from childhood to college to a career in the classroom surrounded by personalities, events, and challenges that will leave you laughing, grinning, and even at times, crying. Set in Palm Beach County as the backdrop for some sixty years of Nick Finch’s incredible journey so come along for the ride and make sure you have sunscreen and an umbrella because it is Palm Beach!
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It is a question we all have. What happens after you die? 'I Died Yesterday' tells of the continuum of life - as one life passes another begins. This story is of how one woman died on a café floor only to come to the realization that life after death is a not always a pleasant journey but one we must all take. Is her journey one you are ready to take?