Provides preservice and inservice instructors, coaches and facilitators with real, classroom-based video examples that illustrate the principles and practices covered in the authors' best-selling book, Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, Grade K-6, Second Edition. Ideally [...]

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies." The "little trag[...]

Enter a world of shrunken heads, mystic holy men, shriveled aliens, and bizarre relics in the delightfully odd tale of Robert Ripley. Born in California, Ripley began his career as a sports cartoonist. He went on to chronicle global records and oddities in his weekly column, "Believe It Or Not "Aft[...]

This text aims to cut through the complexities of educational research to give the novice reader a sound basis to define, develop, and conduct study, while providing insights for even the accomplished reader. It should of value to social researchers, but in particular to upper-level undergraduate an[...]

This best seller offers an unparalleled look at the significant role that classroom discussions can play in teaching mathematics and deepening students' mathematical understanding. Based on a four-year research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the second edition includes more exam[...]