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Will your children be ready for the new national times table check?
All children in Year 4 will have to sit an on-screen times tables
check; this series will help to prepare children by supporting
their learning and understanding of times tables. Each workbook
provides practice, problem-solving activities, games and quick-fire
quizzes to build fluency of times-tables facts. A free online
practice test will also help children to prepare for this important
national check. Each book uses concrete resources, problem solving
and reasoning to build a mastery of multiplication and division,
not just rote learning. Perfect for use at home or in the
classroom. An accompanying Teacher's Guide is also available
providing lessons and activities to build confidence and fluency in
times tables.
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting
fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire
children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6
and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in
demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding
vocabulary. There has been a terrible mix up! Why does the cow woof
and the dog moo? Find out in this humorous story. Red B/ Band 2B
offers emergent readers simple but varied text with familiar
objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a
satisfying conclusion. The focus sounds in this book are: /ee/ /oo
/ /oo/ /ar/ /ow/ /or/ /er/ Pages 14 and 15 allow children to
re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills,
vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book
provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters
and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and
words that the book will cover.
Inspire a love of reading with stories that are written from a
child’s perspective and will encourage children to discover the
world around them. With audio and activities, Peapod Readers
are the perfect start to a child’s journey into learning English.
A new person is moving into Hill Street. Who could it be? Includes:
Before and after reading activities Picture dictionary Exam
practice for Cambridge Pre A1 Starters, working towards A1 Movers
Reading guide online
The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional
developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and
the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic
period. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting
place for eastern and western civilizations. Cultural achievements
of exceptional and everlasting importance, including significant
creations of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, art and
architecture, originated in the coastal cities of western Anatolia
and the adjoining Aegean islands. In the fourth century BC, the
eastern cities experienced a new economic boom, and a revival of
Archaic culture, sometimes termed 'The Ionian Renaissance', began.
The cultural revival furthered rebuilding of old major works such
as the Artemision at Ephesos, the embellishment of sanctuaries and
a new royal architecture, such as the Maussolleion at
Halikarnassos. The rich cultural revival was initially promoted by
the satrapal family of the Hekatomnids in Karia and in particular
by its most famous member, Maussollos, whose influence was not
confined to Asia Minor, but included the Dodekanese islands Kos and
Rhodos. Partly under the influence of the Karian satrapy, a number
of cities were founded on a new common urban model in Rhodos,
Halikarnassos, Priene, Knidos and Kos. When Alexander the Great
conquered the satrapies in western Asia Minor in 334 BC, the
culture initially promoted at the satrapal courts was carried on by
gifted thinkers, poets and architects, preparing the way for
Hellenistic cultural centres such as Alexandria.
Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II, presents new research that
highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the
Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than
700 years. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting
place for eastern and western civilizations. Modern geographical
limitations have been influential on both archaeological
investigations and how we approach cultural relations in the
region. Comprehensive and valuable research has been carried out on
many individual sites in Karia and the Dodekanese, but the results
have rarely been brought together in an attempt to paint a larger
picture of the culture of this region. In antiquity, the sea did
not constitute an obstacle to interaction between societies and
cultures, but was an effective means of communication for the
exchange of goods, sculptural styles, architectural form and
embellishment, education, and ideas. It is clear that close
relations existed between the Dodekanese and western Asia Minor
during the Classical period (Vol. I), but these relations were
evidently further strengthened under the shifting political
influences of the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire, and the
cosmopolitan late antique period. The contributions in this volume
comprise investigations on urbanism, architectural form and
embellishment, sculpture, pottery, and epigraphy.
The third Conference on Computation and Control was held at Mon
tana State University in Bozeman, Montana from August 5-11, 1992
and this proceedings represents the evolution that the conference
has taken since its 1988 and 1990 predecessors. The first
conference and proceedings (Volume 1 in PSCT) nurtured a dialogue
between researchers in control theory and the area of numerical
computation. This cross-fertilization was continued with the 1990
conference and proceedings (Volume 11 in PSCT) while forecasting
the theme for this conference. The present volume contains a
collection of papers addressing issues ranging from noise abatement
via smart material technology, robotic vi sion, and parameter
identification to feedback design challenges in fluid control and
other areas of topical interest. The area of feedback design in
fluid control spawns computational challenges in the form of
Burgers' equation which is addressed both with standard numerical
methods as well as new computational procedures. Applications which
involve inverse prob lems include material parameter estimation and
sampling in observability. Whether motivated by the plant or
arising as the distributed system in the design of a feedback
compensator for problems in nonlinear control, the theme of this
conference placed an emphasis on the use of partial dif ferential
equations in control theory. Through challenges initiated via the
control problem or the subsequent computational problem, the joint
efforts of experts from the respective disciplines enhance the
development of both.
Proceedings of a conference of leading experts in control theory,
numerical mathematics and various application areas. The
conference's interdisciplinary dialogue not only creates new
mathematical tools, it often produces new research problems in the
individual disciplines, aiming to develop rigorous numerical
methods and computational tools for control design and analysis.
This volume contains a collection of papers delivered by the
partici pants at the second Conference on Computation and Control
held at Mon tana State University in Bozeman, Montana from August
1-7, 1990. The conference, as well as this proceedings, attests to
the vitality and cohesion between the control theorist and the
numerical analyst that was adver tised by the first Conference on
Computation and Control in 1988. The proceedings of that initial
conference was published by Birkhiiuser Boston as the first volume
of this same series entitled Computation and Control, Proceedings
of the Bozeman Conference, Bozeman, Montana, 1988. Control theory
and numerical analysis are both, by their very nature,
interdisciplinary subjects as evidenced by their interaction with
other fields of mathematics and engineering. While it is clear that
new control or es timation algorithms and new feedback design
methodologies will need to be implemented computationally, it is
likewise clear that new problems in computational mathematics arise
when implementing a new generation of control algorithms. For these
reasons, computational mathematics is mov ing to the forefront in
recent developments in modern control theory and conversely control
theory and its applications continue to be a fertile area for
computationalists. This volume contains a representative cross
section of the interdisciplinary blend of analytic and numerical
techniques that of ten occur between advanced control design and
practical numerical solution of lumped and distributed parameter
systems."
The problem of developing a systematic approach to the design of
feed back strategies capable of shaping the response of complicated
dynamical control systems illustrates the integration of a wide
variety of mathemat ical disciplines typical of the modern theory
of systems and control. As a concrete example, one may consider the
control of fluid flow across an airfoil, for which recent
experiments indicate the possibility of delaying the onset of
turbulence by controlling viscosity through thermal actuators
located on the airfoil. In general, there are two approaches to the
con trol of such a complica. ted process, the development of
extremely detailed models of the process followed by the derivation
of a more "dedicated" feed back law or the development of a more
simple model class followed by the derivation of control laws which
are more robust to unmodelled dynamics and exogeneous disturbances.
In either approach, the two twin themes of approximation and
computation play a significant role in the derivation and
implementation of resulting control laws. And there is no doubt
that the cross-fertilization between these twin themes and control
theory will increase unabated throughout the next decade, not just
as an important component of design and implementation of control
laws but also as a source of new problems in computational
mathematics. In this volume, we present a collection of papers
which were deliv ered at the first Bozeman Conference on
Computation and Control, held at Montana State University on August
1-11, 1988."
This is the first monograph devoted solely to the ceramics of
Cyprus in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. The island was by then
no longer divided into kingdoms but unified politically, first
under Ptolemaic Egypt and later as a province in the Roman Empire.
Submission to foreign rule was previously thought to have diluted -
if not obliterated - the time-honoured distinctive Cypriot
character. The ceramic evidence suggests otherwise. The
distribution of local and imported pottery in Cyprus points to the
existence of several regional exchange networks, a division that
also seems reflected by other evidence. The similarities in
material culture, exchange patterns and preferential practices are
suggestive of a certain level of regional collective
self-awareness. From the 1st century BC onwards, Cyprus became
increasingly engulfed by mass produced and standardized ceramic
fine wares, which seem ultimately to have put many of the
indigenous makers of similar products out of business - or forced
them to modify their output. Also, the ceramic record gradually
became less diverse during the Roman Period than before -
developments which we today might be inclined to view as symptoms
of an early form of globalisation.
This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection
of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of
Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal
Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the
private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his
death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one
emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities, and open to the public
-- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years has been
constantly enlarged and enriched. In eight articles, various
aspects of the history of the collection are tackled -- the authors
taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two
marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly
insignificant Syrian amulet which, nonetheless, can tell an
intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19th
century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities, and
accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and
Luristan in Iran. New research in Corinthian pottery is presented
and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in
establishing the Greek and Roman galleries that were opened in 1994
together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery opened in 2002. The
Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses
not only the story of ancient cultures but is, in its own right,
part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many
relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the
centuries.
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My Grandma's the Mayor (Hardcover)
Marjorie White Pellegrino; Illustrated by John Lund; John Lund
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Annie is unhappy that she has to share her grandmother, the mayor, with so many people, but when she helps out during a town emergency, Annie appreciates all that her grandmother does in the community.
Route 66 Dreamer is Michael Lund's tenth novel set in the
historical background of Route 66, the Nation's "Mother Road."
Earlier novels depicted life as it was in the Midwest during the
early golden ages of interstate highways and experiences of related
characters in "Growing Up on Route 66." The current 5-volume
series, headlined At Home and Away, chronicles an American family
during times of peace and war from 1915 to 2015. The first book,
Route 66 Sweetheart (2011), is set mostly in and around Rutherford,
New Jersey, during the 1930s. Route 66 Dreamer (2012) features the
son of a Swedish immigrant who pursues his dreams of American
success in Kansas and Missouri in the early 1940s. However, in both
books some family members move away to distant countries and
unexpected challenges. The third volume, Route 66 Looking-glass
(2013), will take place primarily in Missouri in 1965, but
characters also travel far from home and familiar experiences. Book
Four (2014) follows another generation of family members, this time
from Missouri to Southeast Asia where many learn, sadly, "how to
not tell a war story." In the final volume of the series (2015),
the next generation travels to Europe and the Middle East to
understand their identity in a multi-national community.
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