Summary: A former award-winning middle school science teacher provides tips on study skills for high school students to improve their academic achievement. Parent participation is also discussed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.4 HOW

Summary: "Compare global teaching methods and student achievement; consider culture and context to see how success in education can be measures-and improved."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 WIS
Call number: DVD 370 WIS

Summary: Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.102 ART

Benjamin, Arthur

Summary: One key to improving and expanding your math potential--whether you're a corporate executive or a high-school student--lies in the powerful ability to perform mental math calculations. Solving basic math problems in your head is a gateway to success in understanding and mastering higher mathematical fields such as algebra, statistics, and calculus. Mental mathematics also is valuable when...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 SEC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 510 Secrets

Summary: Nothing can amaze quite like an expertly-executed magic trick. Ideally, only the magician knows how truly simple the deception is. After watching Math and Magic, you will know that this trick and its many variants rely on a remarkable property of patterned sequences called Gilbreath's principle--named after an amateur magician who was also a mathematician. Magic is full of such wonders, as you...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 MAT

Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 VIK
Call number: DVD 948.022 VIK