Barron's AP Calculus


Book Description

Barron’s AP Calculus is aligned with the current exam curriculum and provides comprehensive review and practice exams for both AP Calculus AB and BC. This edition includes: Three practice exams for Calculus AB and three for Calculus BC, all modified to reflect the new exam format Answer explanations for all test questions Diagnostic tests to help pinpoint strengths and weaknesses Detailed subject review covering topics for both exams Advice to students on efficient use of their graphing calculators Online Practice Test: Students will also get access to one additional full-length online AP Calculus test with all questions answered and explained.




Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Tests


Book Description

Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Test: Help Improve Your Child’s Math and English Skills – Many parents are expressing a demand for books that will help their children succeed and excel on the fourth grade assessment tests in math and English –especially in areas where children have limited access to computers. This book will help students practice basic math concepts, i.e., number sense and applications as well as more difficult math, such as patterns, functions, and algebra. English skills will include practice in reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary. Rubrics are included for self-evaluation.




Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) Test Practice: 3rd Grade Math Practice Workbook and Full-Length Online Assessments


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The Lumos tedBook for IAR is specifically designed to provide an efficient pathway for 3rd graders succeed on the 2019-20 Illinois Math test. This Math workbook offers online access to two realistic practice tests that mirror the Illinois Math assessment blueprints and a comprehensive review of 3rd grade Math. Lumos Learning programs are trusted by over 275,000 students, 40,000 teachers, and 20,000 schools to improve student achievement on state assessments. Key Benefits of the Lumos Grade 3 Math IAR Test Prep Book Improves test scores on Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) Helps students become familiar with the Illinois testing format Identifies math skill gaps & provides targeted practice Ensures Grade 3 math skills mastery Provides a flexible and self-paced learning platform for students Printed 3rd Grade Math Workbook for IAR Practice provides; Complete Grade 3 Math standards practice under each domain; Operations & Algebraic Thinking Number & Operations in Base Ten Number & Operations - Fractions Measurement and Data Geometry Math lessons with answer keys & explanations Access to online learning resources for each learning standard Tips to improve speed & accuracy for the test Online Access includes; Two realistic IAR practice tests that include 10 tech-enhanced question types that mirror the actual assessment Tools to automatically diagnose students' learning difficulties and assign remedial practice Daily math practice through hundreds of New Illinois Learning Standards Incorporating the Common Core standards-aligned learning resources such as IAR practice questions, math worksheets, videos, apps, etc Benefits for Students; 2 practice tests that mirror 2019-20 IAR Math test blueprints Personalized Math practice assignments tailored to address each student's learning gaps Hundreds of New Illinois Learning Standards Incorporating the Common Core learning standards aligned resources such as Math worksheets, free language arts lessons, language learning videos, & more Benefits for Teachers; Teaching resources available to support IAR Test Prep and skills mastery (Limited access:Requires additional subscription for full access) Tools for differentiated instruction with individualized Math practice assignments for each student Detailed analytical standards-based reports to pinpoint each student's strengths and weaknesses Discover & build resource kits with hundreds of 3rd grade Math practice questions, videos and more for students within minutes Benefits for Parents; Reports to monitor child's online practice and activity on the Illinois test practice Math lessons and hundreds of Math practice resources to support child's skills mastery Convenient access to all resources and reports through the StepUp mobile app Give your student the Lumos tedBook advantage today! Illinois Assessment of Readiness or IAR is the student assessment conducted by The Illinois State Board of Education, which is not affiliated with Lumos Learning. Illinois Department of Education has not endorsed the contents of this book.




21st Century Skills


Book Description

This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) The book contains a video with clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com.




How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-ability Classrooms


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Offers a definition of differentiated instruction, and provides principles and strategies designed to help teachers create learning environments that address the different learning styles, interests, and readiness levels found in a typical mixed-ability classroom.




Democracy and Education


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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.







Curriculum 21


Book Description

"What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today?" With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wisdom of 10 education thought leaders, Jacobs provides insight and inspiration in the following key areas: * Content and assessment: How to identify what to keep, what to cut, and what to create, and where portfolios and other new kinds of assessment fit into the picture. * Program structures: How to improve our use of time and space and groupings of students and staff. * Technology: How it's transforming teaching, and how to take advantage of students' natural facility with technology. * Media literacy: The essential issues to address, and the best resources for helping students become informed users of multiple forms of media. * Globalization: What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective. * Sustainability: How to instill enduring values and beliefs that will lead to healthier local, national, and global communities. * Habits of mind: The thinking habits that students, teachers, and administrators need to develop and practice to succeed in school, work, and life. The answers to these questions and many more make Curriculum 21 the ideal guide for transforming our schools into what they must become: learning organizations that match the times in which we live.