Math Practice Basic Workbook

Mastering your PhD helps guide PhD students through their graduate student days. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future, this book is a handy guide for graduate students who need that extra bit of help getting started and making it through. Every year, thousands of students around the world embark on the long and difficult journey toward a PhD. Some of these students will make it through their program with flying colors. Others will experience difficulty getting to the end: some will sink and some will manage to swim barely. The doctoral years can be daunting. While mainly directed to PhD students in the sciences, the book’s scope is broad enough to encompass the obstacles and hurdles that almost all PhD students face at some point in their doctoral training. Who should read this book? Students of the physical and life sciences, computer science, math, and medicine thinking about entering a PhD program, doctoral students at the beginning of their research and any graduate student who is feeling frustrated and stuck. Its never too early or too late! A must for any student in natural science who is doing or is considering doing a PhD. Also, I strongly recommend PhD supervisors to read this book they will learn a lot. Henrik Stapelfeldt, Professor of Chemistry, Arhus Denmark At last, a book about graduate study that paints the big picture and that recognizes PhD work as a real job involving many of the same relationship and business issues that will be important to students throughout their careers. Outstanding! Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, USA

Written in an easy-to-understand style for electronic beginners, Understanding Basic Electronics is also for those who want to brush up on electronic principles. Loaded with illustrations, the book starts with math skills and progresses to DC and AC electronics principles.

Prepare for doing business in the new economy with REAL ESTATE PRINCIPLES FOR THE NEW ECONOMY and its accompanying CD-ROM! Designed to help you understand real estate from a global perspective, this real estate text covers the fundamentals necessary to understand economy while providing you with the tools you need to succeed. Take advantage of the supplemental CD-ROM that provides you with professional-grade spreadsheets and tools such as chapter study reviews that allow you to practice the fundamentals. Mortgage math problems, career advice, and PowerPoint review slides make studying easy.

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Math to Know: A Mathematics Handbook

A one-stop resource for math practice based on NCTM standards. The books are organized by NCTM content strands: Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis, and Probability. In Basic Math Skills, Grade 3 you”ll find just what you need to provide extra skill practice for individual students, small groups, or the whole class. These reproducible pages are perfect for homework too.

IMaster Math for the SAT/Iis designed as a self-teaching text to prepare for the mathematics sections of the SAT. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a ten-question diagnostic test to guide the student’s preparation throughout the book. At the end of each chapter is a retest that is similar to the diagnostic test. It also includes hundreds of practice problems covering geometry, algebra, fractions, and more, as well as expert test-taking strategies, flexible study planning, user-friendly design geared to the high school student, and answers with comprehensive explanations for all test items in an easy-to-use workbook format. Unique “Take It to the Next Level” section offers further review and guidance for those who want to score even higherP

PIWould you like your students to be able to critically analyze the environmental issues they hear about in the news?/I/PPThis unique case study book provides the basic tools they will need to probe and examine relevant issues./PULLIFeatures topical and timely cases rather than hypothetical situations. These include population growth, energy and natural resources, transportation, and air and water pollution./LILIPresents the tools of critical thinking and applies them throughout the book. This allows students to understand the nature of critical thinking before they are asked to think critically about an issue./LILIIncludes simple math to understand environmental issues. Mathematical formulas are explained in a non-threatening, step-by-step manner that demystifies math and helps students gain confidence./LILISuggests examples for further research while encouraging students to explore the implications, significance, and validity of their work./LILIWritten in a clear and straightforward style./LI/ULH2TO THE INSTRUCTOR/H2PThe idea for this book arose when we were colleagues at Mary Washington College. We grew impatient with a teaching style centered on the faculty member as lecturer and expert and the student as scribe and novice. We feel that such an approach encourages students to be passive rather than active learners and leads to an unhealthy dependency on the faculty person as expert./PPAlthough students generally are both capable and dedicated, many are also afraid of math, rusty in its use, or were superficially trained in arcane fields of calculus. This lack of math skills often leaves students unprepared to deal with the complexity of today’s environmental issues./PPMoreover, we are continually surprised to discover how many bright students can’t do three things: understand and confidently manipulate the units of the metric system, use scientific notation, or critically evaluate complex environmental issu?ö=p£× ¾Û€

First, learn to use simple addition to find the total number of dots, from zero to twelve, on each domino. Then, see if you can find the dominoes with each total hidden in the pictures. With a simple but imaginative approach, Lynette Long has created a fun-filled counting book sure to appeal to even the most reluctant math students. Full color.