Sentences with phrase «than a textbook»

I found it was more of a refresher for value investing rather than a textbook for it.

To provide the right content for the lesson, I needed more than the textbook had to offer.

Plus, it forces us outside, into nature, where students may just make connections with something other than a textbook and a # 2 pencil.

Definitely better than the textbooks I've been reading!

The ability to break off and digest information in chunks is much less daunting than a textbook of information, which means learners are more likely to be motivated to try.

There is nothing more boring than a textbook with no last page in sight!

It teaches a lesson more powerful than any textbook.

Start to listen to her because you'll learn more from her story than a textbook.

«A lot of the boys in the class feel more comfortable on their computers and learning on their computers than textbook».

It's more of a gallery of art history than a textbook.

It surely can do it, if it can prove itself to be greener than textbooks.

Buying textbooks is still significantly more popular than textbook rentals, with nearly 70 % of students saying that they usually buy their books.

Frankly, I think this book would have been a better textbook for the retirement planning course than the textbook that was used.

We spend more on energy in schools than textbooks.

Which is maybe a good thing — more personal to «me» than a textbook style.

Their learning activities are delivered via eLearning resources rather than textbooks, and even art work is carried out digitally now, rather than on coloured paper.

Many books other than textbooks can be assigned on course reading lists.

They were, he realized, no better than the textbooks they sought to replace.

Search for educators committed to true growth, who model and demonstrate relationships, and who aren't afraid to teach more than a textbook.

There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling - halls, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, Socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experiences of passion in every form in his body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than textbooks a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul.

Yet either way, the «optimal» rate is still less than the textbook Pigovian rate, which would normally set the carbon tax equal to the «social cost of carbon» which we assumed was $ 20 / ton in our example.

But Apple's moves will go much further than textbooks.

«No scientific falsehood is more difficult to expunge than textbook dogma endlessly repeated in tabular epitome without the original data.»

Physicians should be aware that single fleas «don't necessarily develop normally» and can live longer than the textbooks predict, Feldmeier says.

All of the trying - to - conceive women we talk to are far more interesting than textbooks... some women have multiple Cue Peaks, some women have «unexpected» ups and downs in their readings, some women end up with both a pink and purple box, and some women have vaginal readings that drop during the luteal phase.

Note that for some women with less than textbook cycles (i.e. irregular cycles, ovulatory disorders, etc) it can more helpful to look at the underlying data and overall chart trends as opposed to simply relying on the color coding.

Much more than a time waster, and something far greater than a textbook, there is no classification for this app that would easily explain or define it.

Technology in the classroom is here to stay; it has become such a big part of our lives it makes sense to make the most of it, especially as kids find gadgets so much more engaging than textbooks.

They try but inevitably fail to compete with television and the Internet, which will always be more exciting, more vivid, more comprehensive, and more up - to date than any textbook.

April 15, 2015 • The Common Core math standards say students need more than a textbook understanding of concepts like the Pythagorean theorem.

He said the new workshops introduced will be cheaper than a textbook adoption because the materials that need to be purchased will include office supplies and teacher classroom kits, along with other administrative costs.

She credits her cat Tyler for teaching her more about feline behavior and training than any textbook.

Kool, who describes herself as an inquisitive individual, regularly seeks more information than textbooks provide and recognizes a need for more veterinary - specific scientific data.

Basically I'd like a more direct and fine - grained physical understanding than, «We ran a GCM and here is a graph», which is what most of the papers I've found contain, and somewhat more detailed and worked - out than the textbook treatments (e.g.raypierre's book).

(I'm more agnostic on that, mostly because I think that «capitalism» as a real - world phenomenon is much less well - defined than textbook definitions actually capture, but also because I'm frankly fairly ignorant on the topic.)

A broken Tektronix scope will teach you more about electronics than a textbook too.

First and foremost, I liked that Strike was a regular bloke rather than a textbook «hero» with various special attributes that placed him head and above the other characters; plus, all of his interactions and reactions felt very realistic to me.

That's less than the textbook 5 - year rule Americans have been conditioned to honor when debating renting vs. buying — the theory goes, if you plan to stay in a home for more than 5 years, it's more financially beneficial to buy.

Christ might have lived but it is just a fable to u. I am not a scientist because I study more than my textbooks.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

Here you'll find more photos of the outdoor display, as well as the content that our ninth grade students were able to tackle through project - based learning rather than textbook - directed learning.