Apple poised to bring important changes to its iBook platform Apple may be poised to announce changes coming to iBooks, and perhaps eBook publishing, sometime this month. In particular, we believe the announcement may have important reverberations for textbook publishers and buyers. According to a report by All Things Digital published Monday, the company is planning a media event in New York to make a "media-related," not hardware-related announcement. Further, sources for TechCrunch claimed the announcement will focus on "improvements to the iBooks platform," and the event will supposedly be more geared towards the publishing industry (not necessarily consumers). Apple has recently highlighted the ability of its iBooks platform to include sound, video, and other features by offering a free eBook of The Yellow Submarine. Several authors have also told Ars that they long for tools to help transform book text into standards-compliant eBooks.
MathsWorks for Teachers Series - ACER Shop Online Author(s): David Leigh-Lancaster Publisher: ACER Press, 2005 MathsWorks for Teachers has been developed to provide a coherent and contemporary framework for conceptualising and implementing aspects of middle and senior mathematics curricula. Titles in the series are: Functional Equations by David Leigh-Lancaster Complex Numbers and Vectors by Les Evans Foundation Numeracy in Context by Gary Motteram & Dave Tout Matrices by Pam Norton Data Analysis Applications by Kay Lipson Each text includes historical and background material, discussion of key concepts, skills and processes, commentary on teaching and learning approaches, comprehensive illustrative examples with related tables, graphs and diagrams throughout, references for each chapter (text and web-based), student activities and sample solution notes, and an extensive bibliography. maths works
Numeracy/maths This page lists a collection of resources to support the teaching and learning of Numeracy/maths for adults: Numeracy Starter Kit The numeracy starter kit signposts providers to some of the wide range of resources to support all aspects of numeracy development and delivery. Numeracy Core Curriculum The Core Curriculum describes the content of what should be taught in literacy, numeracy, ESOL and pre-entry programmes and sets out a clear set of skills required to meet national standards. Numeracy teaching and learning materials Nationally-developed materials that will continue to be of use to teachers. Numeracy interactive learning materials There are 49 interactive files, covering a selection of numeracy skills - number, measures, shape and space and handling data - from Milestone 8 of the Pre-entry through the Entry levels to Levels 1 and 2. New numeracy CPD modules Thematic review Tackling the challenge of low numeracy skills in young people and adults, Ofsted, 2011 Research
number probs with couplke of good basic fact resources... 9 Places to Sell Your Children's Book...Besides Bookstores You've published a children's book! Congratulations! Whether you're traditionally published or you self-published, this is a huge accomplishment. Surprisingly, many many places other than bookstores can help you sell your book. Direct from the author. Specialty catalogs. Museums and other gift stores. School visits. Library conferences. Education/teacher conferences. As a fundraiser. At street fairs and other outdoor events. Through gift stores in your hometown.
Introduction This resource pack describes and explains what are the global patterns of population change through: interpretation of world population distribution interpretation of the demographic transition model interpretation of differing population structures These materials support the Global Citizenship and Interdependence element of the WJEC GCSE geography (A - mainstream) specification, in particular the key question "What are the global patterns of population change?" Animation and graphics are used to show the dynamic nature of population change. Download lesson pack Please save and then extract this file to your hard drive before using.
Step Up Resources - Home to Educational Resources The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (book) The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1] The list included the books such as, Upanishads, Hebrew Bible, I Ching, Kabbalah, Candide, The World as Will and Idea, among others. See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998). The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today. External links[edit] The list
Ageing China: Changes and challenges China's fertility rate - the average number of children a woman has in their lifetime - is 1.6, which is lower than the rate in the UK and the US. The Chinese government believes the one-child policy curtailed population growth, and that it prevented 400 million extra births. The BBC asked Cai Yong, a population expert at the University of North Carolina, to estimate what the country's population growth would have been without the one-child policy. His findings suggest that China's fertility would have declined at a similar rate without the one-child policy and would continue to decline even if the policy was discarded. How did the one-child policy affect population levels? Cai Yong writes: The UN's Population Division and statisticians from the University of Washington developed a set of sophisticated models to predict a country's future fertility based on its fertility change history and fertility trends in all other countries.
Kip McGrath uses these How DO We Learn Math? What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.— Keith DevlinShould Children Learn Math by Starting with Counting? It seems obvious that our children must have a wide range of experience with real world objects before counting, addition, or subtraction mean anything to them. To teach effectively, I need to understand how students learn. I Learn by Discovery Collect lots of experiences.Notice patterns or trends.Develop mental metaphors to explain the patterns, and postulate rules from the metaphors.Test the rules against future experiences. Advantages of this method: Discovery learning can be applied in many situations, and it does not require a teacher. I Learn by Constructing a Logical Framework
China media: One-child policy 18 November 2013Last updated at 00:50 ET Papers praise relaxation in China's one-child policy Media welcome reforms to relax the one-child policy and abolish a controversial labour camp system, but raise concerns over their effectiveness. A new plan allowing couples in China to have two children if one of the parents is an only child is continuing to reverberate through the media since its announcement on Friday. The measures are part of the resolutions released after the ruling Communist Party Central Committee's third plenum in Beijing last week. The one-child policy was enforced in the late 1970s to bring down a rapidly-growing population. The policy was later ease to allow couples to have two children if they were both without siblings. "This is a positive measure that will not only deal with the demographic dividend decline, labour shortages and other issues, but also help to build a strong social security and pension system," says the Beijing Times. Labour camps