Sentences with phrase «open a science textbook»

Open a science textbook, and the chances are that somewhere near the back you will find a list of fundamental constants.

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This subsection itself bears comparison with Chapter II of Science and the Modern World; again it is entirely congenial to Whitehead's approach, if indeed it is not his own statement of it, that is reflected in the openings of subsections» (a) Nature of number,»» (b) Fundamental concepts of geometry,» and» (c) Nature of applied mathematics The theme of starting with clear principles in mathematics has run throughout Whitehead's earlier work, particularly his lectures on the teaching of mathematics and his textbook.

The cash - strapped state launched the nation's first open source digital textbook initiative last May, asking content providers to submit high school - level math and science texts for free.

It's an open storage environment where you can create your own science textbook, keep it digital, keep it soft — for free, forever — or modify it.

There are several organizations and companies that provide open source textbooks, including Flat World Knowledge and CK - 12 (the former is a traditional publisher and focuses primarily on higher ed textbooks; the latter is a non-profit that offers K - 12 science and math materials).

The instruction described in this article incorporated several textbook resources, including CK - 12 Foundation (www.ck12.org) and Florida's Orange Grove (http://florida.theorangrove.org), both of which provide current open - source text appropriate for the secondary science curriculum.

As part of an undergraduate secondary science methods course, the university faculty member Brian Zoellner guided the preservice secondary education science methods teachers through the open textbook design, showing them flexible book options for adapting and building their own textbooks, as well as exploring options for differentiated instruction.

Part of this process was to inform them about free electronic text sources available, specifically the Orange Grove Digital Repository and CK - 12 websites (see Figure 1), which provide open textbooks for math and science at a variety of grade levels and courses.

Entourage then opened a student store online that you could purchase textbooks on a myriad of subjects from science to English to anthropology.

Enhanced ebooks have opened up new publishing possibilities in nearly every genre, from children's books to textbooks to science fiction.

This paper opened my eyes to the educational opportunities in addressing misinformation - an approach I adopted in the chapters «Understanding Climate Change Denial» and «Rebuttals to Climate Myths» in the textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis.