Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions (Kazemi Elham)(Paperback)

Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions (Kazemi Elham)(Paperback)

Not all mathematics discussions are alike. It's one thing to ask students to share how they solved a problem, to get ideas out on the table so that their thinking becomes visible; but knowing what to do with students' ideas--where to go with them--can be a daunting task. Intentional Talk provides

The Five Practices in Practice [Elementary]: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Elementary Classroom (Smith)(Paperback)

Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions Enhance your fluency in the five practices--anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting--to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your elementary classroom

Minding the Machines: Building and Leading Data Science and Analytics Teams (Adamson Jeremy)(Paperback)

Learn and provide clear insights into how to structure and lead a successful analytics team. This is a deceptively challenging goal since there are no templates to work from. Establishing a project management office, information services, or human resources department is an understood process and

Choral Counting & Counting Collections: Transforming the Prek-5 Math Classroom (Franke Megan L.)(Paperback)

In this influential book from collaborative authors Megan L Franke, Elham Kazemi, and Angela Chan Turrou, Choral Counting & Counting Collections: Transforming the PreK - 5 Math Classroom, explores ways in which two routines -- Choral Counting and Counting Collections -- can transform your

Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes (Leslie Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on advice from the world's leading experts on conflict and communication--from relationship scientists to hostage negotiators to diplomats--Ian Leslie, a columnist for the New Statesman, shows us how to transform the heat of conflict, disagreement and argument into the light of insight,

Mathematics and Humor (Paulos John Allen)(Paperback)

John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W. C. Fields, and Woody Allen

How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone: Confident Communication for Work, Life and Relationships (Rhodes Mark)(Paperback)

Talk to anyone, anytime, about anything -- with confidence. How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone is your personal handbook for stepping up your communication game. Part confidence coach and part social manual, this book reveals the reasons behind your reserve and offers real, practical ways to break

Think Like an Artist - . . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life (Gompertz Will)(Paperback / softback)

Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile? This book provides basic practices and processes that allow your talents to flourish, and which we can adopt - no matter what we do - to help us achieve extraordinary

Born with Teeth: A Memoir (Mulgrew Kate)(Paperback)

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew 'how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil,' Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of

The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft: Seeking an Intentional Magical Path (Lyte Fire)(Paperback)

Challenge your assumptions about witchcraft, Paganism, and spiritual seeking and learn how to craft your own magical path with this timely and entertaining exploration of what it means to practice witchcraft from the host of the Inciting A Riot podcast.If you've ever wanted to burn your ex's old

Structure and Randomness - pages from year one of a mathematical blog (Tao Terence)(Paperback / softback)

Contains articles that discuss a wide range of mathematics and its applications, ranging from expository articles on quantum mechanics, Einstein's equation E = mc2, or compressed sensing, to open problems in analysis, combinatorics, geometry, number theory, and algebra, to lecture series on random

We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Headlee Celeste)(Paperback)

'WE NEED TO TALK.'Now in paperback, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee's insightful and urgent book on how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversationsBASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWSNPR's Best Books of 2017'We Need to Talk is an important read for a

How To Talk Finance - Getting to grips with the numbers in business (Wainman Ted)(Paperback / softback)

Easy to follow, friendly, and conversational How to Talk Finance will help you get the low down on the numbers behind your business -what they are, what they mean and how you can use them to get

Diary of a Dog-walker - Time spent following a lead (Stourton Edward)(Paperback / softback)

'If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyone, and anyone can talk to you - about anything ...' And they do. Edward Stourton's walks with, Kudu, his dog, become an opportunity for wonderfully unlikely encounters, and reflecting on the world from the dog-walker's perspective proves

Time (Adam Barbara)(Paperback)

What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. She takes the

How To Talk To Robots and Why You Should - A Beginner's Handbook to Successfully Navigating a Future Dominated by Artificial Intelligence (Goldstaub Tabitha)(Paperback / softback)

How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI world with a warm embrace. She brilliantly breaks down the tech-bro barriers offering a straightforward introduction and makes clear the enormous benefits of understanding

Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents (Tagliamonte Sali A.)(Paperback)

How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on a huge corpus of examples collected over a fifteen-year period, Sali A. Tagliamonte undertakes a detailed study of

Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game Pro-Edition (Sumpter David)(Paperback)

Soccer is the most mathematical of sports--riddled with numbers, patterns, and shapes. How to make sense of them? The answer lies in mathematical modeling, a science with applications in a host of biological systems. Soccermatics brings the two together in a fascinating, mind-bending synthesis

Customer Experience Management: How to Design, Integrate, Measure and Lead (Tavsan Nihat)(Paperback)

How to Make Repeat Patterns: A Guide for Designers, Architects and Artists (Jackson Paul)(Paperback)

This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Escher-like repeats. The book also shows how to make 'wallpaper repeats', where the elements of the pattern merge into each other, apparently seamlessly

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (Christian Diana Leafe)(Paperback)

Creating a Life Together provides step-by-step practical information on how to establish an intentional community. It deals with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling model

Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man (Harvey Steve)(Paperback)

In 'Straight Talk, No Chaser', Steve Harvey zeros in on what motivates men and provides tips on how women can use that knowledge to get more of what they need out of their relationships, whether it's more help around the house, more of the right kind of attention in the bedroom, more money in the

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Lakoff George)(Paperback)

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more

Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work (Kroeger Otto)(Paperback)