Every minute of every hour of every day,there are American Bombers in the air,loaded with nuclear weapons,ready to fly into action at the mere spark of the right radio sign al.These are the planes of the Strategic Air Command. What happens once that signal flashes is described vividly in this tensely dramatic novel. The command came to the men of the 843rd Wing,high in the air near the Russian border. Asking no questions,obeying their standing orders,they headed straight towards their assigned targets. Had America already been attacked?Or was it the action of a single determined general,and unauthorized by the pentagon and the president? RED ALERT is the story of the two tensest hours in human history.

Red Alert

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bryant, Peter

Thrillers & Suspense

lulu.com

"Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How culture promotes childrens mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world. Internationally renowned experts Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant examine research into childrens mathematical development to show why it is important to distinguish between quantities, relations and numbers. Using Mathematics to Understand the World presents a theory about the development of childrens quantitative reasoning and reveals why and how teaching about quantitative reasoning can be used to improve childrens mathematical attainment in school. It describes how learning about the analytical meaning of numbers is established as part of mathematics at school but quantitative reasoning is emphasized less even though it is increasingly acclaimed as essential for thinking mathematically and for using mathematics to understand the world. This essential text is for all students of mathematics education, developmental psychology and cognitive psychology. By including activities for parents and professionals to try themselves, it may help you to recognize your own quantitative reasoning"--

Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Nunes, Terezinha

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Using Mathematics to Understand the World

Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes (Improving Learning)

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as strings of individual letters, children are better able to make sense of the often contradictory spelling and reading rules of English. As a result, their enjoyment of learning about words increases, and their literacy skills improve. Written by leading researchers for trainee teachers, practising teachers and interested parents, this highly accessible and innovative book provides sound, evidence-based advice and materials that can be used to help teach children about morphemes, and highlights the beneficial effects of this approach.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Perception and understanding in young children;: An experimental approach

METHUEN

Perception and Understanding in Young Children: An Experimental Approach

Basic Books

A surprisingly large number of otherwise `normal' children have problems learning to read, and these difficulties can produce disastrous consequences. Can we isolate the causes of reading problems? How can we best help backward readers? Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley, in a trenchant and convincingly argued critique, show that many of the existing psychological explanations of reading problems are based on flawed research and on entirely inadequate evidence.

Children's Reading Problems: Psychology and Education

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Blackwell*publishers

Bradley, Lynette

Wiley/Blackwell

Children Doing Mathematics provides a reliable and up to date review of the substantial recent work in children' mathematical understanding. The authors also present important new research on children's understanding of number, measurement, arithmetic operation and fractions both in and out of school. The central theme of Children Doing Mathematics is that there are crucial conditions for children's mathematical learning. Firstly, children have to come to grips with conventional mathematical systems. Secondly, but equally important, they have to be able to present mathematical knowledge in a way that solves problems. The book also discusses how mathematical activities and knowledge involve much more than what is currently viewed as mathematics in the school curriculum. Most recent work illustrates how children can be successful in mathematical activities outside school whereas they fail in similar activities in the classroom. Through these two underlying themes the authors bring together discussions on conventional mathematical learning and on real life mathematical success. In so doing, they also highlight new and better ways of analysing children's abilities and of advancing their learning in school.

Children Doing Mathematics (Understanding Children's Worlds)

Children Doing Mathematics

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