Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar

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,...

Surveys the life of Swiss/German immigrant John Sutter, on whose land gold was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, spurring the California gold rush and westward expansion.

Un libro claro, riguroso y estructurado, adaptado a los contenidos curriculares de Biología y Geología, acompañado de un elevado número de actividades teóricas, prácticas, competenciales e interactivas. Son piezas clave del libro: el enfoque TIC, con vínculos a animaciones y a actividades interactivas y el planteamiento encaminado al desarrollo de las competencias básicas.Incluye como anexos un diccionario científico y un atlas anatómico, de gran utilidad tanto en el aula como para el uso autónomo de los alumnos.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...