10 matching games that reinforce basic skills

10 matching games that reinforce basic skills

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

Weekly Practice: Math for grade 2 provides daily practice for key concepts such as time, money, measurement, place value, word problems, interpreting graphs, and more. Complete with flash cards and activities, this series supports classroom success by offering extra practice at home. --Improve studentsÕ math skills in the classroom while also providing a way to continue the learning process at home. Weekly Practice: Math for grade 2 allows you to reinforce math topics at school and at home by offering 40 weeks of standards-based activities and skill review. The unique layout and engaging exercises keep students interested as they build concept knowledge and essential skills. Reproducible at-home activities and flash cards are also included to encourage the home-to-school connection thatÕs essential for student success. --Weekly Practice is the perfect time-saving resource for creating standards-aligned homework packets and keeping studentsÕ skills sharp all year long. The Weekly Practice series for kindergarten to grade 5 provides 40 weeks of comprehensive skill review. Each 192-page supplemental workbook focuses on critical skills and concepts that meet the standards for language arts or math. Designed to help students achieve subject mastery, each book includes four days of practice activities, weekly off-the-page activities, Common Core State Standards alignment matrix, flash cards, and an answer key. Weekly Practice offers an effortless way to integrate language arts or math practice into daily classroom instruction.

Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestones, works of genius destined to last forever. Now William Dunham gives them the attention they deserve. Dunham places each theorem within its historical context and explores the very human and often turbulent life of the creator — from Archimedes, the absentminded theoretician whose absorption in his work often precluded eating or bathing, to Gerolamo Cardano, the sixteenth-century mathematician whose accomplishments flourished despite a bizarre array of misadventures, to the paranoid genius of modern times, Georg Cantor. He also provides step-by-step proofs for the theorems, each easily accessible to readers with no more than a knowledge of high school mathematics. A rare combination of the historical, biographical, and mathematical, Journey Through Genius is a fascinating introduction to a neglected field of human creativity. “It is mathematics presented as a series of works of art; a fascinating lingering over individual examples of ingenuity and insight. It is mathematics by lightning flash.” —Isaac Asimov

This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians- a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly every four years- acts as a visual history of the 25 congresses held between 1897 and 2006, as well as a story of changes in the culture of mathematics over the past century. Because the congress is an int