Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael roth

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  • MODELING AND SIMULATION OF EVERYDAY THINGS
    MICHAEL ROTH
    With Python, C++, FORTRAN, and a friendly conversational tone peppered with attempted humor, Modeling and Simulation of Everyday Things takes us on a journey through constructing models and simulations of systems and processes in everyday life and beyond. Readers can access an example‑packed online repository of programs in each of the three languages, including seldom covered ...

    $1,340.00

  • THE PHYSICS OF EVOLUTION
    MICHAEL W. ROTH
    This book provides an introduction to the significant role of physics in evolution, based on the ideas of matter and energy resource flow, organism self-copying, and ecological change. The text employs these ideas to create quantitative models for important evolutionary processes. Many fields of science and engineering have come up against the problem of complex design—when det...

    $1,480.00

  • CONCRETE HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
    WOLFF-MICHAEL ROTH
    Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates t...

    $1,420.00

  • GEOMETRY AS OBJECTIVE SCIENCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS
    WOLFF-MICHAEL ROTH
    This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at later points in their lives. Roth's analyses explain how geometry, an objective ...

    $1,380.00

  • LANGUAGE, LEARNING, CONTEXT
    WOLFF-MICHAEL ROTH
    In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment? How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential? Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions for all involved; whether it affects the linguistic development of a student or the ...

    $1,420.00

  • SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE
    ROTH, WOLFF-MICHAEL
    Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns within or outside school; develops a new form of scholarship based on the dialogi...

    $960.00

  • ESTABLISHING SCIENTIFIC CLASSROOM DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES
    YERRICK, RANDY K. / ROTH, WOLFF-MICHAEL
    Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers. The contributors--some of the top educational researchers, linguists, and science educators in the world--represent a var...

    $1,480.00

  • RETHINKING SCIENTIFIC LITERACY
    WOLFF-MICHAEL ROTH / ANGELA CALABRESE BARTON
    Rethinking Scientific Literacy presents a new perspective on science learning as a tool for improving communities. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, the authors illuminate the relevance of science in students' everyday lives, offering a new vision of scientific literacy that is inextricably linked with social responsibility and community developme...

    $1,280.00