Product Description: The painting on the front of this book is an illustration for Totakahini: The tale of the parrot, by Rabindranath Tagore, in which he satirized education as a magnificent golden cage. Opening the cage addresses mathematics education as a complex socio-political phenomenon, exploring the vast terrain that spans critique and politics...read more

Product Description: Making Sense of Data and Statistics in Psychology confronts the pedagogic challenge of teaching statistics to students in psychology and related disciplines. Recognising the heterogeneous nature of students' mathematical backgrounds and motivations, the authors adopt an innovative approach while ensuring ready integration into orthodox undergraduate statistics courses at introductory and post-introductory levels...read more

This textbook confronts the pedagogic challenge of teaching statistics to students in psychology and related disciplines. Making extensive use of exploratory data analysis (EDA), the text emphasises conceptual rather than technical or procedural understanding.

Product Description: The Times Crossword is the most famous crossword in the world. This new selection provides enthusiasts with 80 puzzles. The first Times Crossword was published on February 1, 1930 and over 21,000 different puzzles have appeared in the newspaper since then...read more

Product Description: Written by Brian Greer, a former Crossword Editor of The Times, How to do The Times Crossword provides the introduction to understanding how The Times crossword is compiled and how you should go about solving its clues. It provides advice on how to tackle the crossword and how to read each clue so that you can find its solution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Word problems have been a staple of mathematics instruction for centuries, yet the rationale for their use has remained largely unexamined. A range of findings have shown how students consistently answer them in ways that fail to take account of the reality of the situations described...read more

Product Description: Obverse and Reverse Plate Images and Special Variety Images large format photographs with descriptions.

Product Description: Examines the interdisciplinary aspects of mathematics teaching at primary and post-primary level, using a variety of practical and theoretical approaches to learning and instruction. This book should be of interest to mathematics teachers, curriculum planners, students and teachers of comparative education...read more