Mat Man Shapes


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In MAT MAN SHAPES (hardcover), The popular Mat Man™ character comes to life in an imaginative tale that takes children to a world of shapes and rhymes. A friendly hero opens students' minds to shapes, rhyming verse, imagination, exploration, and community in the first book of the Mat Man™ reading series.




Learn Shapes With The Penguinies


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Penguinies enjoy lots of fun activities, but best of all they enjoy learning. Today the Penguinies would like to learn the different shapes. Join the Penguinies and help them to learn the different shapes.




Shape in Picture


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The fields of image analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence all make use of descriptions of shape in grey-level images. Most existing algorithms for the automatic recognition and classification of particular shapes have been devel oped for specific purposes, with the result that these methods are often restricted in their application. The use of advanced and theoretically well-founded math ematical methods should lead to the construction of robust shape descriptors having more general application. Shape description can be regarded as a meeting point of vision research, mathematics, computing science, and the application fields of image analy sis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Shape in Picture" was organised with a twofold objective: first, it should provide all participants with an overview of relevant developments in these different disciplines; second, it should stimulate researchers to exchange original results and ideas across the boundaries of these disciplines. This book comprises a widely drawn selection of papers presented at the workshop, and many contributions have been revised to reflect further progress in the field. The focus of this collection is on mathematical approaches to the construction of shape descriptions from grey-level images. The book is divided into five parts, each devoted to a different discipline. Each part contains papers that have tutorial sections; these are intended to assist the reader in becoming acquainted with the variety of approaches to the problem.




Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood


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Early childhood mathematics is vitally important for young children's present and future educational success. Research demonstrates that virtually all young children have the capability to learn and become competent in mathematics. Furthermore, young children enjoy their early informal experiences with mathematics. Unfortunately, many children's potential in mathematics is not fully realized, especially those children who are economically disadvantaged. This is due, in part, to a lack of opportunities to learn mathematics in early childhood settings or through everyday experiences in the home and in their communities. Improvements in early childhood mathematics education can provide young children with the foundation for school success. Relying on a comprehensive review of the research, Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood lays out the critical areas that should be the focus of young children's early mathematics education, explores the extent to which they are currently being incorporated in early childhood settings, and identifies the changes needed to improve the quality of mathematics experiences for young children. This book serves as a call to action to improve the state of early childhood mathematics. It will be especially useful for policy makers and practitioners-those who work directly with children and their families in shaping the policies that affect the education of young children.




Racing Super Buster Shapes and You Can Too. Learn Shapes and Colors


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Racing Super Buster is back in another super fun, super fast, super silly learning adventure. A children's picture book from Robert Stanek, the award-winning, best-selling author/illustrator. Elegant in its simplicity and wonderfully fun. Your kids are going to have a blast whether you read, they read with you, or they read on their own. Includes parent tips for advancing readers and getting more out of subsequent readings. This book is designed to build basic shape skills and knowledge. Young children can work on shape recognition. Older children can work on shape sense, matching, and comparison. Great fun for adults to read aloud to children or for children to read independently.




The Whole Guitar Neck


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Please be sure you have read our introduction at www.TheWholeGuitarNeck.com. We've made our full method introduction available for free there; and it is an integral part of our complete method. Our method is a musically-complete method; and it is not limited to only the diagrams that you may see in the previews. Also: each book is available in right-handed and left-handed formats: be sure to select the correct format. This book covers the Blues Scale; and is for 6-String Guitar, and Right-Handed players (picking with the right; and fretting with the left hand). The Whole Guitar Neck is an authentic, and concise, guitar method; based only on musical rudiments, and an easy learning path. Primary components are large books of guitar neck charts; of various scales, in all chords, and all modes. Our method brings you a firm grasp, within any fingering on any diagram; along the whole neck. The book is in two parts; and is available for many scales. For the particular scale, the book includes a collection of dozens of large charts for that scale; and each one is given in all chords, and all modes for that scale. Every book also includes our complete method. Our method then gives you all of the musical components; and it will provide you with robust, and easy orientations. You will be able to confidently grip the neck from any position; and have orientation along any musical line of your own. You will gain the perspective of seeing all of the charts "from the markers-out"; and you will feel oriented at any position. Our musical method is also applied to your own music; in addition to any scales. Getting all the way down to the rudiments in our method, will reveal that the diagrams come second to the music; and, there’s even a lot more than just one anchor in one diagram! They will all "fall away", into your own music. Our easy rudiments-based method is musically sound, and that is what simply leads out to all of these shapes on the whole neck; and, our books have been designed to free up the whole neck. Our method is based only on the music; while still as easy to grasp as a simple looking diagram.




Tough Topics in Shape and Angle


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Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition


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This volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series contains the papers presented at the S+SSPR 2010 Workshops, which was the seventh occasion that SPR and SSPR workshops have been held jointly. S+SSPR 2010 was organized by TC1 and TC2, Technical Committees of the International Association for Pattern Recognition(IAPR), andheld inCesme, Izmir, whichis a seaside resort on the Aegean coast of Turkey. The conference took place during August 18–20, 2010, only a few days before the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) which was held in Istanbul. The aim of the series of workshops is to create an international forum for the presentation of the latest results and exchange of ideas between researchers in the ?elds of statistical and structural pattern recognition. SPR 2010 and SSPR 2010 received a total of 99 paper submissions from many di?erent countries around the world, giving it a truly international perspective, as has been the case for previous S+SSPR workshops. This volume contains 70 accepted papers, 39 for oral and 31 for poster presentation. In addition to par- lel oral sessions for SPR and SSPR, there were two joint oral sessions of interest to both SPR and SSPR communities. Furthermore, to enhance the workshop experience, there were two joint panel sessions on “Structural Learning” and “Clustering,” in which short author presentations were followed by discussion. Another innovation this year was the ?lming of the proceedings by Videol- tures.




Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2010


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This three volume set LNCS 6352, LNCS 6353, and LNCS 6354 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2010, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 20010. The 102 revised full papers, 68 short papers and 29 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 241 submissions. The third volume is divided in topical sections on classification – pattern recognition, learning algorithms and systems, computational intelligence, IEM3 workshop, CVA workshop, and SOINN workshop.




The Handbook of Informal Language Learning


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Provides a comprehensive and unique examination of global language learning outside of the formal school setting Authored by a prominent team of international experts in their respective fields, The Handbook of Informal Language Learning is a one-of-a-kind reference work and it is a timely and valuable resource for anyone looking to explore informal language learning outside of a formal education environment. It features a comprehensive collection of cutting edge research areas exploring the cultural and historical cases of informal language learning, along with the growing area of digital language learning, and the future of this relevant field in national development and language education. The Handbook of Informal Language Learning examines informal language learning from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Structured across six sections, chapters cover areas of motivation, linguistics, cognition, and multimodality; digital learning, including virtual contexts, gaming, fanfiction, vlogging, mobile devices, and nonformal programs; and media and live contact, including learning through environmental print, tourism/study abroad. The book also provides studies of informal learning in four national contexts, examines the integration of informal and formal classroom learning, and discusses the future of language learning from different perspectives. Edited by respected researchers of computer-mediated communication and second language learning and teacher education Features contributions by leading international scholars reaching out to a global audience Presents an exciting and progressive selection of chapters in a rapidly expanding field of research and teaching Provides a state-of-the-art collection of the theories, as well as the historical, cultural and international cases relating to informal language learning and its future in a digital age Covers 30 key topics that represent pioneering findings and new research The Handbook of Informal Language Learning is an essential resource for researchers, students, and professionals in the fields of language acquisition, English as a second language, and foreign language education.