El Cebo Y la Presa

"North American Spanish translation of Spot Earthquakes. Excite early readers about science and weather with a low-level reader about earthquakes. Using a search-and-find framework, emergent readers learn simple facts about these quakes and how scientists measure the shaking"--

The reflection that is presented in this book is born of direct contact with schools that have a multicultural public, its dialogue with the faculty and pupils of these schools, and of the queries raised by its research in intercultural education.

Mathematics constitutes ideal material for exercising the art of learning and thinking. For this it is necessary that the classroom has a stimulating atmosphere which requires determined attitudes and beliefs. The book combines theory and practice and responds to questions such as these: to think in the mathematics class? on what does the knowledge of solving problems really consist of? what are the beliefs and which are the most common ones among the students? how to diagnose, evaluate and, in some cases to modify, the systems of beliefs of the pupil?).

Describes the frogs, toads, and salamanders of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, looking particularly at the wide variety of adaptations found in the few species that dwell there.