Figuring It Out - Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math
This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges.
In this acclaimed bestseller, President Carter returns to his early years in Plains, Georgia, the same locale that enchanted readers of An Hour Before Daylight, which The New Yorker called "an American classic." He remembers the Christmas days of his boyhood and later years, re-creating here the simplicity of community and celebration with family and friends.
The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence' the Circus' all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years...
Gifted and Talented in the Early Years - Practical Activities for Children aged 3 to 5
How can we identify gifted and talented young children in pre-school settings and how can existing resources be used to challenge and stimulate them? In Gifted and Talented in the Early Years: Practical Activities for Children Aged 3 to 5, Margaret Sutherland offers tried-and-tested ideas and activities to help gifted children flourish.
