Sentences with phrase «get used textbooks»

Instead of that new $ 175 chemistry book, get used textbooks.

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I can still remember how excited I used to get about new stationary, textbooks and a fresh school uniform.

Guest blogger Victor Small, Jr. offers four practical tips for getting comfortable with blended learning: don't assume every kid is a tech wiz, be wary of online textbooks, use PowerPoint sparingly, and encourage student - to - student communication.

The public get every answer wrong; opponents, in particular, believe that Common Core is keeping states and local school districts from «deciding which textbooks and instructional materials to use in their schools.»

Currently, textbooks used in public schools in states like Texas and California must first be approved at the state level, a process in which various stakeholders get the chance to pressure publishers into addressing their concerns.

Jeff Schwartz, an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher at Lincoln (where Monastero used to teach), says Private Watkins's presentation gives students «something they don't get from a textbook.

The idea is to get the students using the textbook and revising without realizing they are revising!

We got all the language arts textbooks in use and went through them carefully, jotting down every topic, subtopic, skill, and subskill we could find at each grade level.

«A lot of kids who are used to getting pages out of a textbook didn't have the perseverance to take the problem all the way to its end,» he admits.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission announced a blueprint to get all schools using digital textbooks in five years.

Our school has established course that adapts Algebra - 1, Geometry, and Algebra - 2 It was difficult getting administrators and instructional coaches to understand how I could use prescribed textbooks and make - it - work

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Despite being treated to that «I'm the decision maker — so I don't need to listen to anyone,» it sounds like there was widespread excitement at the prospect of getting new textbooks to use in the classrooms of Bridgeport's school.

What makes me scared is that I open up a textbook and I see it still uses the old content architecture but it's got a new section on Common Core stuff.

Although OverDrive has long served schools libraries, these days the company is pushing harder to get schools to use its system for another purpose: Borrowing textbooks and other materials for students to use in the classroom.

Though it may get used for it, Apple's intention here with the tools and iBooks update is a better way to do textbooks (and similar books), not novels.

As a plus, students in colleges would get to make their own decisions whether to use these devices or just stick to using textbooks.

well in my part, experience isn't the best way of learning, though its effective but still some have many experiences but it still took them to repeatedly do the same thing to learn, just like in using the best gadget won't mean you'd be learning more, learning is not just about experience but it's about how a person comprehend things out, also it's contents matter, textbooks is helpful, specially the digital ones, it helps workers become more efficient in his or her workplace and get more relevant information.

Not a site to torrent but I've been using bigwords.com which compares prices of all college textbook sites and gets you the best deals.

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Fortunately for my wallet, all it took was going with him to the university bookstore and then to the off - campus used bookstore once to compare prices for his textbooks to get him to understand the need to buy used as often as possible.

That's a case in which trade - and textbook authors are watching their publishers get nothing for the use of their titles in close to 100 school districts and ministerial areas of Canada.

If your etextbooks are from CourseSmart or another online textbook company, you can view those in a regular browser — you should be able to use the one that comes installed on the Nook or you can get a different one through GooglePlay.

While this won't typically earn you money (although some clever college entrepreneurs have figured out a way to profit selling used textbooks), it is a great way to get some money back for the books you bought each semester.

For example, rather than waiting until the day before classes start to get your textbooks, find out what books you'll need for your classes as soon as possible and then find the best deals, which may be ordering online rather than using the college bookstore.

You're likely to get used, older versions of a textbook for a fraction of the price of the new version.

Another great feature of Chegg is its policy of giving users who are trying to get a textbook quickly the opportunity to use the eBook edition while they wait for their physical copy in the mail.

My shelves are already full of a rather lot of introductory physics textbooks — maybe thirty or forty — since publishers send me copies every year trying to get me to use them.

Note well also that I didn't use this page (or any actual textbook) to make them, because I'm pretty competent at thermo at this level, although it gets harder and I have little doubt that there are plenty of specific problems I'd have difficulty with.

I am a complete layman in climate, as you all have already understood, but I have studied radio engineering (long time ago) and have used physics for engineering tasks for most of my life, and I find it kind of painful not to be able to get «simple» textbook level atmospheric physics.

Of course, you don't have to get an expensive dedicated standing workstation for the task; a pile of textbooks and boxes can do, or you can use an inexpensive add - on like the UpStanding Desk which quickly converts an existing desk into a standing workstation.

I lost every single textbook I ever had or used in school 50 years ago, in a box that got shipped, and never delivered.

Because the publisher only gets to sell a new copy of a book once, and some law students are smart enough to buy used textbooks that are still required for a particular class, so there's a strong incentive for publishers to release new editions often.

There are no textbooks involved, and the entire course was created by expert designers and instructors using proven teaching techniques to get you out of the classroom, and back onto the roads.

«With the ever - growing popularity of portable media devices and their use in schools as a replacement for textbooks, the problem of poor sleep amongst children is likely to get worse,» Carter said.

Another wonderful textbook if you can get your hands on a copy (that's another expression Americans don't use), that I had the full pleasure of working on with the author from Simon Fraser... «Our Own Voice.»

There are also a number of ways for students to get textbooks, from buying used to renting for a semester.