Sentences with phrase «old textbooks»

In the case of older textbooks or very specialized materials, there may be no financial incentive for publishers to offer materials in both electronic and print format.

If it's facts & figures, formulas & ratios, any dry old textbook (which probably has little else to recommend it) will provide them, usually to great excess.

In the math classroom, you can use scannable tech to update old textbooks.

Old textbooks become worthless very quickly.

Many of the people in my class (particularly the overachieving and overanxious) have already been talking to the professors, as well as a plethora of upperclassmen who seem happy to share old textbooks, old exams, old qualifying exams, and such.

Old textbook stereotypes of mitochondria as tidy, self - contained capsules have faded away as modern imaging techniques show them routinely fusing into tubes and branches.

Drawing inspiration from old textbooks, bric - a-brac, furniture and cast - offs, his works playfully invoke a childlike wonder while acknowledging a melancholy within such make - believe.

When she was 6, her neighbor threw out a collection of old textbooks; Oyer found a dated biology tome and took it home.

Using QR codes and AR, math teachers can connect to tutorials, make their word wall interactive, share student work, explore 3D shapes, and update old textbooks.

But there is one element of the old textbook cycle which is both unpredictable and pervasive in its effects — animal spirits.

These changes cause a great deal more work on the part of honest instructors, not to mention the loss of resale value for old textbooks from students who've passed the course and need the money.

The older textbooks on evolution make much of the idea of ho - m - ology, pointing out the obvious resemblances between the skeletons of the limbs of different animals.

Some older textbooks in psychology referred to this as the ambivalence between contentment and mastery.

«The old textbook description says that once maleness is determined by a few Y chromosome genes and you have gonads, all other sex differences stem from there,» says geneticist Andrew Clark of Cornell University, who was not involved in either study.

TEAR up that old textbook.

One such study is already under way at Nature Publishing Group: on some California State University campuses, students began biology on old textbooks, whereas other classes came in with Principles of Biology, so the company is doing side - by - side comparisons of how well students learned biology and how their attitudes toward science might differ, says Vikram Savkar, publishing director of Nature Education.

The old textbooks claim that mercury is healthy and to maintain respect for the practise a lot of products coming out of India have mercury added to them.

Toppo's confidence overflows, as he recounts how games are so much better than the old textbook, chalk - and - blackboard methods.

ITIS Majorana School is well - known in Italy because of their flagship project The «Book in progress», which aims to produce digital resources that replace the old textbooks, i.e. «books» (both paper and digital), and are made by the teachers.

Old textbooks, other teachers, and searchable Web sites are great sources.

Your Aid, We Deliver doesn't charge volunteers to assist them, and a contribution may be as small as the donation of an old textbook.

Prior to receiving Impact Aid funding, the district had to cut staff positions and reduce benefits, provide 20 - year - old textbooks to students, and have the school's gym double as the cafeteria.

The plan also got rid of some old textbooks, removed old classroom chairs and tables, and organized students into cluster teams that would stay together for three years.

Feeling the pressure, I dug through my old textbooks and term papers to find the best ways to differentiate and scaffold learning, to make the curriculum and standards accessible to all students, to make educational opportunity available for each student.

Small nonprofits, education technology startups, and companies that have never dabbled in producing educational content are stepping up to create learning apps and even full curricula that schools can use in addition to — or in place of — their old textbooks.

Standards provide a framework for excellence in teaching, but it's just oh - so - easy to pick up that old textbook and teach from cover to cover.

Likewise, wait until the start of the next academic year to sell your old textbooks when both demand and prices are higher.

I recently found that check in an old textbook and double checked my history and sure enough they charged me for the loan (even though it was never utilized) that particular loan (originally 666 $) has now been consolidated into a much larger loan of 67,000.

And if you're looking for some extra money, check into selling your old textbooks for cash!

Unless you need them for future classes (such as a sequence), there is no reason to keep those old textbooks lying around.

Sell: eCampus also offers a service where you can sell them back your old textbook.

Sell those old textbooks!

It is a faux - leatherbound hardcover with gold stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old textbook or bible.

Installations that consist of building debris and old textbooks that criticize the competitive urban development in China and other cities in Asia are being presented at Plateau.

It is also, in part, a structural matter, because most law firms still aspire to the old textbook, broad - based pyramidic structure; whereas alternative methods of sourcing call for a revision if not rejection of that model.

We recommend using wide, flat books for stability, so gather your old textbooks and coffee - table books.