Técnicas elementales de cocina

What do churros, macarons, and strudel have in common? In order to bake them successfully, pastry chefs must use fractions! Students will learn comparing fractions while engaged in reading about delectable desserts from around the world. This Spanish book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The glossary, index, and table of contents will further understanding of reading and math concepts, and the full-color images, practice problems, and math graphs and charts make learning math easy,...

Villancicos clásicos son perfectos para reflexionar sobre el verdadero significado de la temporada Navideña. Enséñale a los niños sobre los regalos que los tres reyes magos trajeron a Jesús. La estrella brillante era su guía al viajar sobre las montañas para ver el Salvador del mundo. "Nosotros somos los tres reyes magos de Oriente Atravesamos desde lejos con regalos. Campo y fuente, páramo y montaña, siguiendo a la estrella de allá. Belén, he traído oro para coronarlo de nuevo. Rey para siempre, nunca ha de doblegarse sobre todos nosotros reinará. Oh estrella maravillosa,...

No town or city could be built if the builders didn't understand the concepts of perimeter and area. Students will use perimeter and area to build towns and cities and design homes and parks in the book, Pueblos y ciudades (Towns and Cities). At home or in the classroom, this nonfiction book will engage students in learning measurement and geometry, and how to grid patterns, through fun practice problems and diagrams.

Imagine traveling at half the speed of a jet plane without ever leaving the ground! Students will discover the technology that makes such speeds possible, from special tracks and safety precautions to aerodynamically designed trains. What are the limits to the speed of trains? What imposes those limits? Students also will read about the future of passenger train travel, from flying trains to trains that use huge magnets to levitate inches or centimeters off the track. Some trains safely reach speeds of more than 200 mph!