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Dinosaurs(1st Edition) (National Geographic My First Pocket Guides) by James Mckinnon, DavidKirshner Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1996 by Natl Geographic Soc Childrens Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7922-3444-9, ISBN: 0-7922-3444-8
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Bears(1st Edition) Majestic Creatures of the Wild by Ian Stirling, DavidKirshner Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1993 by Rodale Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87596-552-9, ISBN: 0-87596-552-0
"An illustrated celebration of bears examines the different species that exist, and discusses such issues as biology, environmental concerns, and patterns of life"
"This third edition of the Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent theoretical and practical developments in the field of mathematics education. Authored by an array of internationally recognized scholars and edited by Lyn English and David Kirshner, this collection brings together overviews and advances in mat ..."
"This third edition of the Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent theoretical and practical developments in the field of mathematics education. Authored by an array of internationally recognized scholars and edited by Lyn English and David Kirshner, this collection brings together overviews and advances in mat ..."
"The second edition continues the mission of bringing together important new mathematics education research that makes a difference in both theory and practice. It updates and extends the Handbook’s original key themes and issues for international research in mathematics education for the 21st century, namely: priorities in international mathematics education research lifelong democratic access to powerful mathematical ideas advanc ..."
"The second edition continues the mission of bringing together important new mathematics education research that makes a difference in both theory and practice. It updates and extends the Handbook's original key themes and issues for international research in mathematics education for the 21st century, namely: priorities in international mathematics education research lifelong democratic access to powerful mathematical ideas advan ..."
" Have you ever kept tadpoles and watched them grow into frogs or toads? It's fascinating to see how they absorb their tail and grow legs. This book is full of amazing information about how this happens and much, much more. It introduces you to frogs that hide so cleverly from their predators that they look like bird droppings. You'll meet the world's largest frog (it's as big as a human baby!) and a frog that's only the size of your ..."
Rethinking Methodology in the Learning Sciences(1st Edition) A Special Double Issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences (Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol 10, Nos. 1&2) by Sasha A. Barab, DavidKirshner Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Psychology Press Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-8058-9725-8, ISBN: 0-8058-9725-9
"How one begins to account for learning and the potential of a learning context to support learning is the focus of this special issue. What unites the four reflective papers that form the core of this special issue is a commitment to agent-in-setting as a unit of analysis and to the contention that cognition occurs and is given meaning through the dynamic relations among the knower, the known, and the evolving context through which know ..."
"This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to situated cognition theory. Its chapters contribute to discourse about repositioning situated cognition theory within the broader supporting disciplines and to resolving the problematics addressed within the book. There is a cumulative vision to the book -- its theme is that the n ..."
"This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to situated cognition theory. Its chapters contribute to discourse about repositioning situated cognition theory within the broader supporting disciplines and to resolving the problematics addressed within the book. There is a cumulative vision to the book -- its theme is that the n ..."
"Over the last 15 years, research from a cognitive perspective has identified tasks
that cause learners of school algebra difficulty in systematic ... literalsymbols (e.g.
, Schoenfeld & Arcavi, 1988; Sleeman, 1984; Usiskin, 1988; Wagner,1981;
Kuchemann, 1978), and graphing (e.g.,Bell& ... In a standard approach,
anequation is®a sentence about numbers ̄(Dolciani & Wooton, 1973,p.24), 1 or
... 2 Such descriptions are true, in some sen ..."
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