Collection title is LP - Problem Solving / Exp Learning

"This book will demonstrate how ... [educators] can organize curriculum in a way that harnesses the key principles of the traditional disciplines while building students' capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to keep pace with our rapidly changing world ... Walk[s] readers step-by-step through the curriculum design process of individual courses as well as the planning process for vertical and horizontal alignment"--Provided by publisher.

"The authors share their professional insights and recommendations--drawn from Couros' previous published work the 'Innovator's Mindset' and from Novak's work with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)--to guide teachers and administrators in ways to create learning experiences that are not constrained by established regulations and limitations such as mandatory assessments and preset curriculum"--OCLC.

What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and what changes could be made to those films to make them even more successful? Or even who out of us is likely to commit certain crimes, and when? This may sound like the world of science-fiction, but in fact it is just the tip of the iceberg in a world that is increasingly ruled by complex algorithms and neural networks. In 'The Formula', Luke Dormehl takes you inside the world of numbers, asking how we came to believe in the all-conquering power of algorithms.

Mathematical Olympiads are designed to stretch the more capable school child by offering questions which have to be unravelled before a solution can be attempted. This book offers a record of the problems and solutions used in Mathematical Olympiads.

From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse to be solved - and a look at how many everyday problems can be solved by maths.

A good puzzle is ingenious, frustrating and a-ha!-inducing. In this entertaining and utterly addictive book, Bellos will challenge you to pit your wits against pangrams, hidatos, chessboard puzzles and a Singaporean schoolchild's maths paper. Piece of cake, right? Only if you know the scientific method for cutting cake correctly. Organised from easy-peasy to ninja level - with stories of puzzle mysteries, histories and scandals along the way this book will make your hippocampus happy.

'101 Great Science Experiments' is bursting with fun experiments for you to try out at home, revealing the secrets of science through practical and exciting projects.

"Former 'New York Times' columnist Anand Giridharadas takes [readers] into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it, . . . ask[ing] hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes and . . . point[ing] toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, [people] must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world . . ."--Publisher provided.

A guide to organizational change for K-12 school leaders, discussing effective leadership, technical and cultural dimensions of change, using persuasion, developing empathy, establishing credibility, and more.

"...looks at the power and promise of the teenage brain from an empathetic, strength-based perspective--and describes what middle and high school educators can do to make the most of their students' potential"--Back cover.

It took two millennia to prove the impossible; that is, to prove it is not possible to solve some famous Greek problems in the Greek way (using only straight edge and compasses). In the process of trying to square the circle, trisect the angle and duplicate the cube, other mathematical discoveries were made; for these seemingly trivial diversions occupied some of history's great mathematical minds. Why did Archimedes, Euclid, Newton, Fermat, Gauss, Descartes among so many devote themselves to these conundrums? This book brings readers actively into historical and modern procedures for working the problems, and into the new mathematics that had to be invented before they could be "solved."

Over a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had not been included in such classic collections as those by Sam Loyd and Henry Dudeney. Later, these puzzles were published in book collections, incorporating reader feedback on alternate solutions or interesting generalizations. The present volume contains a rich selection of 70 of the best of these brain teasers, in some cases including references to new developments related to the puzzle. Now enthusiasts can challenge their solving skills and rattle their egos with such stimulating mind-benders as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, The Fork in the Road, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, Touching Cigarettes, and 64 other problems involving logic and basic math. Solutions are included.

Provides secrets and tips for mentally solving mathematical problems.

This title features puzzles and problems from the show 'Ball of Confusion', designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement and designed for every level of difficulty - from some solved in a twinkling of an eye to some that will knit your brow for hours.

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations-and by individuals-to solve problems and save lives both 'down the street and around the world'. Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, 'regardless of income, available time, age, and skills', can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams. Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving

'Gut Feelings' reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision making, analysing the heuristics that people actually use to make good decisions and showing how we can become better decision-makers ourselves.