Sentences with phrase «widely used textbooks»

Seeing that there was no point in continuing a company who couldn't offer the most widely used textbooks to its users, Flooved has now shifted its model, a complete malleable business decision made possible by the flexibility of digital publishing, into an open - access content provider and a crowdsourced book distributor.

Needless to say, he affirms the important contribution her book (written a few years later) as «one of the seminal and most widely used textbooks in the field of multicultural education, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education» (1992, now in its 6th Edition [co-authored with Patty Bode]-RRB-.

There are several widely used textbooks, but mathematically they are very much alike.

The late Jeanne Chall and Sue S. Conard studied widely used textbooks covering the period from 1945 to 1975 and noted, «On the whole, the later the copyright dates of the textbooks for the same grade, the easier they were, as measured by indices of readability level, maturity level, difficulty of questions, and extent of illustration.»

In an issue of the Intercollegian as late as 1948, Paul Popenoe, author of the widely used textbook Applied Eugenics, warns readers that «too large a proportion» of children are «born in homes which can give them the worst start in every way.

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

Nastasi is co-author of a widely used textbook, «Ion Beam Processing: Fundamentals and Applications,» and edits a handbook on ion beam materials analysis.

Consider the widely used textbook, «Biology,» by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, published by McGraw - Hill.

A member of the scientific advisory board of 21st Century, he is the author of more than 100 articles and several books, including the most widely used textbook on the natural sciences.

Not exact matches

Even our word algebra is a corruption of al - jabr, the name of an Arabic textbook widely used by Christians.

Dr. Teich is author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely - used textbook on technology and society, the seventh edition of which was published by St. Martin's Press in September 1996, and Science and Technology in the USA, volume 5 of Longman's «World Guides to Science and Technology,» published in 1986.

He is the author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely - used textbook on technology and society, the eighth edition of which was published by Bedford / St.

The most widely studied set of quantum numbers is that for a single electron in an atom: not only because it is useful in chemistry, being the basic notion behind the periodic table, valence (chemistry) and a host of other properties, but also because it is a solvable and realistic problem, and, as such, finds widespread use in textbooks.

David Griffiths of Reed College, author of a widely used introductory quantum mechanics textbook (the second edition of which gives a version of antitunneling as a student exercise), calls it «a very sweet paradox.»

Depictions of race and skin tone in anatomy textbooks widely used in North American medical schools could be contributing to racial bias in medical treatment, new research suggests.

John Warriner, author of one of the most widely used English textbooks in American education, died last month at the age of 80.

Textbooks are one of the most widely used educational inputs, but remarkably little is known about their effects on student learning.

Boudin was one of the most famous members of her generation, but her name does not appear in any of the most widely used history textbooks.

The populist attack on Common Core isn't always fair: Some of the most widely mocked examples of so - called Common Core math were featured in textbooks and used in classrooms long before the standards were introduced.

In a decision that underscores long - standing rifts over how to teach mathematics, Texas officials have rejected one of the most widely used elementary textbooks in the country in that subject after complaining that it does not encourage students to memorize multiplication tables and solve problems without calculators.

Textbooks are still widely used.

Project 2061's publications are widely used in teacher education courses, and its research studies shed light on how textbooks, teaching practices, and professional development can best be coordinated to improve student learning.

A study of a widely used math textbook series found that none of the series covered 100 percent of on - grade Common Core standards, and some were virtually identical to their pre-Common Core versions.29 30

New and used textbooks are available for order through Ingram's iPage ®, one of the book industry's most widely used online search, order, and account management tools.

Women were largely excluded from art history textbooks such as the widely - used H. W. Janson's «History of Art,» first published in 1962, until the 1980s when a few women artists were finally included.

This science is more than half a century old; it is in any textbook; the I.P.C.C. even as an «official» log forcing function that is widely used in simple policy analysis models.

The Philosophy of Sustainable Design has been used as a textbook in over seventy universities and colleges and is distributed widely throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Another widely seen use of the phrase «greenhouse effect» was in a 1937 textbook (repeated in later editions), wrongly describing «the so - called «greenhouse effect» of the Earth's atmosphere» as an effect «analogous to that of a pane of glass.»