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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 provides mathematics teachers with an elementary introduction to matrix algebra and its uses.
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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Complex Numbers and Vectors is an informative resource for advanced mathematics teachers or students undertaking advanced maths courses that draws on the power of intrigue and uses appealing applications.
Blending science, history, and biography, this book reveals the mysteries of mathematics, focusing on the life and work of three of Albert Einstein's heroes: Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell.
This lively commentary encompasses four major books focusing on women in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha. Each section in the volume addresses the biblical text in detail, and draws connections from the world of ancient audiences to that of present-day readers. Wolfe's research is motivated by the usual inquiries of biblical scholarship, as well as the questions raised by the many church Bible study groups she has taught. Clergy and laity, students and scholars will benefit from these contemporarily relevant reflections on Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs and Judith. Ruth: The foreign widow who sneaks onto the nighttime threshing floor to find survival for herself and her devastated mother-in-law....