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Essential Demographic Methods
by Kenneth W. WachterClassroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demographer Kenneth Wachter draws on themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to bring out the wider appeal of demography.
Reasons to Reason in Primary Maths and Science
by Alan Cross Alison BorthwickHow can teachers help children to develop reasoning skills? What is reasoning and how do we teach it? Much is being said in schools and education about the importance of reasoning skills. This book explores what reasoning is and what it is not. It includes examples of how reasoning in primary mathematics and science classes can develop. It shows how a connection between the 'skills' of mathematics and science can help children to gain a better understanding of reasoning. What is a conjecture? What makes you think? What makes you think about your thinking? What does reasoning look like? With links to classroom practice and examples of effective teaching throughout, this book not only provides an exploration of what reasoning is and why it's important - it also show you how to develop children's reasoning skills in your classroom.
The Analysis of Biological Data, Second Edition
by Michael C. Whitlock Dolph SchluterThis second edition textbook teaches modern methods of statistics through the use of fascinating biological and medical case studies. The clear and engaging writing and practical perspective allows students to understand the analytical process behind biological data. Through the use of real world biological examples, biologists and health professionals can learn statistics in an essential manner.
Making Scientists: Six Principles For Effective College Teaching
by Gregory LightGregory Light and Marina Micari reject the view that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are elite disciplines restricted to a small number with innate talent. Rich in concrete advice, Making Scientists offers a new paradigm of how scientific subjects can be taught at the college level to underrepresented groups.
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
by Eli CookHow did Americans come to quantify their society’s well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are the measure of not only goods and commodities but our environment, communities, nation, even self-worth. Eli Cook shows how, and why, we moderns lost sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.
Letts KS2 Revision Success — KS2 MATHS SATS REVISION GUIDE: 2019 tests (PDF)
by Letts Ks2However you like to learn, Letts will get you through your test. • Listen up and learn more with free audio • Have a go with hands-on activities • Try SATs questions like the ones in the tests • Pick up top tips along the way This guide has been made ready for the tests, so you can be too!
Letts KS2 Revision Success — KS2 MATHS SATS PRACTICE WORKBOOK: 2019 tests (PDF)
by Letts Ks2Need more practice? Letts will get you through your test. • Get practising with tons of questions • Try SATs questions like the ones in the test • Pick up top tips along the way This workbook has been made ready for the tests, so you can be too!
National 5 Applications of Mathematics Student Book (Student Books For Sqa Exams Ser.)
by Craig Lowther Harden Jenny Smith Judith Barron Leckie Leckie StaffExam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Applications of Maths First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 The National 5 Applications of Maths Student Book helps teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme, providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. • Full coverage of National 5 course specifications with list of learning intentions • Attractive layout with clear text features • Key questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning intention • What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students feel secure • Exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners commentary, self-assessment Student Books give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance.
National 5 Mathematics Student Book (Student Books For Sqa Exams Ser.)
by Craig Lowther Christie Claire Crossman Ian MacAndie Brenda Harden Stuart Welsh Andy Thompson Leckie Leckie StaffExam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Mathematics First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 The National 5 Mathematics Student Book helps map your route through the CfE programme and provides comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the whole course. • Full coverage of National 5 course specifications with list of learning intentions • Attractive layout with clear text features • Key questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning intention • What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students feel secure • Exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners commentary, self-assessment • Keep your learning on track/Stretch yourself to encourage self evaluation and provide challenge for higher ability students Student Books give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer an appropriate blend of sound teaching and learning with exam and assessment guidance. • Active learning ideas: ‘You Should Already Know’, lists for student to check they are confident with before proceeding AND ‘Make the link’ highlights links between the topic and other areas of the course and/or across different subjects • Assessment questions, exemplar work, model answers, suggested topic work • Teacher Notes Answers online; Numeracy chapters online – probability chapters to ensure N5 students meet numeracy standards. A list of class activity ideas. PDF format
National 5 Mathematics Practice Exam Papers (Practice Papers For Sqa Exams Ser.)
by Ken Nisbet Leckie Leckie StaffExam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Maths First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 N5 Practice Papers look just like the SQA exam providing the best way to prepare for exam day! • Practice Papers for SQA Exams help students, parents and teachers to feel confident with the new exam experience • Each book comprises several practice exams that mirror the SQA exam format – familiarising students with the demands of the exam and the expectations of the examiner • Fully worked answer sections show all the critical stages in arriving at the correct answer • Annotated marking schemes demonstrate how to get all the available marks, and also how to avoid losing them • Topic Indexes enable students to select and practice questions and evaluate their progress on specific areas of the course • A revision and study tips section gives general revision and exam technique tips, as well as defining subject-specific trigger or command words that students must know All the papers will provide extensive practice and reflect the type and level of questions students are likely to meet; the formats of different question papers and assessment methods; and the type of marking schemes used by the SQA.
National 5 Maths Success Guide (PDF)
by Ken Nisbet Leckie Leckie StaffExam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Maths First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 This book provides easy-to-use and value-for-money revision for all abilities and learning styles. Guidance on how the new National 5 course and assessments are structured is included. • Colourful double-page spreads aid both comprehensive and revision planning • Topics are broken down into small, easily managed sections, complemented with lots of diagrams and illustrations to aid retention • Quick Tests and Top Tips help keep students focused on the exam’s precise demands • Revision checklists help students to manage and track their progress in the lead up to the exam • A glossary presents all of the key terms and definitions essential for the exam All the popular features of this series are retained in the new National 5 Guides.
Cambridge Essentials Mathematics Extension 7 Pupil's Book with CD-ROM (PDF)
by Paul Rigby Peter Sherran Edited by Peter Sherran Graham Newman Clive CowmeadowA dynamic new course combining classbook, CD-ROM and online components to offer flexible, time saving and supportive materials. Cambridge Essentials Mathematics Extension 7 Pupil Book is aimed at National Curriculum Levels 4-7. The book gives a map for the pupil and teacher of how to cover all aspects of the topic whilst focussing on delivering exercises with strong progression. The pupil CD-ROM replicates the book page with buttons acting as links to prior knowledge, keywords and explanations. Functional Maths questions are included at National Curriculum Level 6.
Measurement
by Paul LockhartLockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living.
The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes (PDF)
by Bumba Mukherjee Ore KorenThis book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling elite, and when such mobilization will result in mass killing. In doing so, it illustrates the important role urbanization and food insecurity historically played, and will continue to play, in generating extreme forms of civilian victimization.
Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud (Palgrave Studies In Digital Business And Enabling Technologies Ser.)
by David Kenny Theo Lynn John P. MorrisonPalgrave Studies In Digital Business And Enabling Technologies Ser.
A History in Sum: 150 Years Of Mathematics At Harvard, 1825-1975
by Steve NadisIn the twentieth century, American mathematicians began to make critical advances in a field previously dominated by Europeans. Harvard's mathematics department was at the center of these developments. A History in Sum is an inviting account of the pioneers who trailblazed a distinctly American tradition of mathematics--in algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and other esoteric subdisciplines that are rarely written about outside of journal articles or advanced textbooks. The heady mathematical concepts that emerged, and the men and women who shaped them, are described here in lively, accessible prose. The story begins in 1825, when a precocious sixteen-year-old freshman, Benjamin Peirce, arrived at the College. He would become the first American to produce original mathematics--an ambition frowned upon in an era when professors largely limited themselves to teaching. Peirce's successors transformed the math department into a world-class research center, attracting to the faculty such luminaries as George David Birkhoff. Influential figures soon flocked to Harvard, some overcoming great challenges to pursue their elected calling. A History in Sum elucidates the contributions of these extraordinary minds and makes clear why the history of the Harvard mathematics department is an essential part of the history of mathematics in America and beyond.
YEAR 6 MATHS SATS TARGETED PRACTICE WORKBOOK: 2019 tests (Collins KS2 Revision and Practice (PDF))
by Collins Ks2Matched to the requirements of the National Curriculum, this Maths practice workbook is designed to target every topic in Year 6 at Key Stage 2. Based on new research that proves repeated practice is more effective than repeated study, practice workbooks are guaranteed to help improve performance in tests and assessments. Included in this book: • Questions for every topic organised into three levels of increasing difficulty • Progress tests throughout the book for ongoing assessment • A section where children can record their results and track their own progress • A pull-out answer section
Derivative Pricing: A Problem-Based Primer (Chapman and Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series)
by Ambrose LoThe proliferation of financial derivatives over the past decades, options in particular, has underscored the increasing importance of derivative pricing literacy among students, researchers, and practitioners. Derivative Pricing: A Problem-Based Primer demystifies the essential derivative pricing theory by adopting a mathematically rigorous yet widely accessible pedagogical approach that will appeal to a wide variety of audience. Abandoning the traditional "black-box" approach or theorists’ "pedantic" approach, this textbook provides readers with a solid understanding of the fundamental mechanism of derivative pricing methodologies and their underlying theory through a diversity of illustrative examples. The abundance of exercises and problems makes the book well-suited as a text for advanced undergraduates, beginning graduates as well as a reference for professionals and researchers who need a thorough understanding of not only "how," but also "why" derivative pricing works. It is especially ideal for students who need to prepare for the derivatives portion of the Society of Actuaries Investment and Financial Markets Exam. Features Lucid explanations of the theory and assumptions behind various derivative pricing models. Emphasis on intuitions, mnemonics as well as common fallacies. Interspersed with illustrative examples and end-of-chapter problems that aid a deep understanding of concepts in derivative pricing. Mathematical derivations, while not eschewed, are made maximally accessible. A solutions manual is available for qualified instructors. The Author Ambrose Lo is currently Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in Actuarial Science from the University of Hong Kong in 2014, with dependence structures, risk measures, and optimal reinsurance being his research interests. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA). His research papers have been published in top-tier actuarial journals, such as ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the International Actuarial Association, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and Scandinavian Actuarial Journal.
Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference
by Paul R. RosenbaumIn the face of conflicting claims about some treatments, behaviors, and policies, the question arises: What is the most scientifically rigorous way to draw conclusions about cause and effect in the study of humans? In this introduction to causal inference, Paul Rosenbaum explains key concepts and methods through real-world examples.
One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology And Chinese Realities, 1700-2000
by James Z. Lee Wang. FengOne Quarter of Humanity presents evidence about historical and contemporary Chinese population behavior that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China and the West. James Lee and Wang Feng argue that there has been effective regulation of population growth in China through a variety of practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards, and through the widespread practices of infanticide and abortion. These practices and other distinctive features of the Chinese demographic and social system, they argue, led to a different demographic transition in China from the one that took place in the West.
Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays
by Charles ParsonsIn these selected essays, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the past century: Brouwer, Hilbert, Bernays, Weyl, Gödel, Russell, Quine, Putnam, Wang, and Tait.
Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Maths Foundation All-in-One Revision and Practice (Collins GCSE 9-1 Revision) (PDF)
by Collins GcseExam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Foundation Subject: Maths First Teaching: September 2015, First Exams: June 2017 Revision that Sticks! Collins Edexcel GCSE Grade 9-1 Maths Foundation Complete All-in-One Revision and Practice, uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout. A revision guide, workbook and practice paper in one book! With clear and concise revision for every topic, plus seven practice opportunities, Collins offers the best revision at the best price. Includes: • quick tests as you go • end-of-topic practice questions • topic review questions later in the book • mixed practice questions at the end of the book • audio download to practice listening • more topic-by-topic practice in the workbook • a complete exam-style paper • free Q&A flashcards to download online • an ebook version of the revision guide
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
by Joel Perlmann PerlmannWhen more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential—were “Hebrews” a “race,” a “religion,” or a “people”? As Joel Perlmann shows, a self-appointed pair of officials created the government’s 1897 List of Races and Peoples, which shaped exclusionary immigration laws, the wording of the U.S. Census, and federal studies that informed social policy. Its categories served to maintain old divisions and establish new ones. Across the five decades ending in the 1920s, American immigration policy built increasingly upon the belief that some groups of immigrants were desirable, others not. Perlmann traces how the debates over this policy institutionalized race distinctions—between whites and nonwhites, but also among whites—in immigration laws that lasted four decades. Despite a gradual shift among social scientists from “race” to “ethnic group” after the 1920s, the diffusion of this key concept among government officials and the public remained limited until the end of the 1960s. Taking up dramatic changes to racial and ethnic classification since then, America Classifies the Immigrants concentrates on three crucial reforms to the American Census: the introduction of Hispanic origin and ancestry (1980), the recognition of mixed racial origins (2000), and a rethinking of the connections between race and ethnic group (proposed for 2020).
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
by Stephen M. StiglerWhat gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics—a scientific discipline related to but distinct from mathematics and computer science and one which often seems counterintuitive. His original account will fascinate the interested layperson and engage the professional statistician.
Health and Well-Being in India: A Quantitative Analysis of Inequality in Outcomes and Opportunities
by Vani Kant BorooahThe theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular to outcomes relating to its caste and religious groups and, within these groups, to their women and children. The book’s tenor is analytical and based upon a rigorous examination of recent data from both government and non-government sources. The major areas covered are sanitation, use by mothers of the government’s child development services, child malnutrition, deaths in families, gender discrimination, and the measurement of welfare.