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aha! Process Products
Book: A Framework for Understanding Poverty
$22.00
by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
How does poverty impact learning, work habits and decision-making?
People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth—challenges from both obvious and hidden sources. The reality of being poor brings out a survival mentality, and turns attention away from opportunities taken for granted by everyone else.
If you work with people in poverty, some understanding of how different their world is from yours will be invaluable. Whether you’re an educator—or a social, health or legal services professional—this breakthrough book gives you practical, real-world support and guidance to improve your effectiveness in working with people from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
With a million copies sold since 1996, A Framework for Understanding Poverty has guided hundreds of thousands of educators and other professionals through the pitfalls and barriers faced by all classes, especially the poor. Carefully researched and packed with charts, tables, and questionnaires, Framework not only documents the facts of poverty, it provides practical yet compassionate strategies for addressing its impact on people’s lives.
199 pages, 1996, revised 2005, paperback
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Book: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: A Developmentally Appropriate Approach to Early Learning
$18.00
Parents don't get an owner's manual with each child. There are no instructions to read or customer service technicians to call. Teachers, while trained professionals, have to deal with a new group of students each year. Many students are coming from backgrounds increasingly different from their own, making it difficult to establish a long-term bond. Matthew (Matt) S. Seebaum, a veteran educator with years of early childhood teaching experience, wrote A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words
for those parents and educators who could benefit from practical tools to aid in dealing with young children.
A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words is an instruction book for teachers and parents about how to use images to explain abstract concepts to young children. In the book, an aha! Process, Inc. publication, Matt explains lessons that are easily adaptable for home or school; the book is appropriately generic in its location.
Matt Seebaum emphasizes that children are not merely miniature versions of adults. They are people who see and experience the world differently from adults. Very often, they don't understand abstract concepts because of their reliance on visual information. Such differences mean special learning tools need to be created to enhance their understanding. For instance, many people know that in a classroom students are expected to ask permission before they are excused. But young children, struggling to understand theoretical ideas, won't understand what permission means. For those children, extra care is needed to explain the process of asking to be excused.
To help explain abstract thoughts to young children, Matt recommends that teachers or parents use pictorial behavior strips or picture plans to convey information visually about desired conduct. These have proven to be very helpful in demonstrating what behavior is acceptable and reinforcing it.
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Book: A Trainer's Companion: Stories to Stimulate Reflection, Conversation, Action
$22.00
This is a collection of stories which provides jumping off points for reflection and discussions on such topics as conflict, diversity, reframing and change. It offers many opportunities to develop new perspective on old problems, making it a valuable tool for educators, professionals and anyone else who works in group situations.
Reader's Say:
"Your book is a first-rate piece of work, high quality all the way. I appreciate the blend of format, content, and instructional apparatus more than most of your marketplace."
"In my judgment your innovative approach is the key to the well-rounded education learners need to function well in a democratic society, but often are not receiving."
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Book: Berrytales
$25.00
Actors are Readers, Classrooms are Stages, and Everyone Stars in Berrytales. Plays in one act for middle-schoolers that combine dialogue, story narrative, improvisation, and content -- and get students to think about their own thinking.
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Book: Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
$22.00
Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty.
In a highly readable format you'll find case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organization can implement right now to:
- Redesign programs to better serve people you work with
- Build skill sets for management to help guide employees
- Upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers;
- Improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care;
- Increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work.
If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges-and strengths-will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success. "reader review"
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Book: Collaboration for Kids: Early Intervention Tools for Schools and Communities
$18.00
This book by Heatherly W. Conway describes a simple, straightforward initiative—Collaboration For Kids (CFK)—that can be put into place in any community by a single school, school division, human service agency, or any caring and interested individual. It outlines an interactive process for addressing, early in a child’s life, problems that negatively impact education—a process that utilizes the inner strengths of the child and family members. Guidelines for training in the not-so-natural art of collaboration are given, and the CFK training program is clearly portrayed. Comes with CD which includes all necessary forms.
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Book: Cookin' In The Classroom!
$7.00
Cookin’ in the Classroom! could be the spark that will interest teachers and students alike.
Kim Ellis, a professional educator since 1976, brings a wealth of classroom teaching and educational consulting experience to the table by authoring Cookin' in the Classroom!. Her book includes all the forms, charts, illustrations, sample menus and resources you need to set up a successful program.
Cookin' in the Classroom!: A multi-disciplinary recipe for keeping kids fired up about learning is a cuisine based program flexible enough to address specific areas of academic weakness in summer school programs, after-school sessions and alternative programs.
Cookin' in the Classroom! can be used by any grade level with modifications. The plans were specifically designed for students in grades 6-9, however you can tailor the program to fit your specific needs easily.
Just a few of the book's ingredients:
- 12 Raisin Oat Bran Muffins
- A dash of Rubrics
- 3 Parts Resumes
- A dose of Real Life Skills
- And a pinch of Respect
Order yours today and start serving up this winning dish of information!
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Book: Crossing the Tracks for Love
$14.95
Crossing the Tracks™ is a guide for successfully negotiating the barriers that divide economic classes. It explores the ways that people from poverty, middle class, and wealth view the world and operate within it in terms of intimacy, gender roles, employment, entertainment, decision-making, raising children, dealing with in-laws, food and dining, and free time. This powerful book exposes the mindsets and attitudes that trigger conflict between people of different economic classes, and provides solutions you can use immediately to improve your relationships, smooth your own transition between classes, increase opportunities for someone you care about, and move confidently in any social setting.
$14.95/$21.95 Canada.
Ask Ruby your questions.
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Book: Daily Math Practice for VA Standards of Learning - Fourth Grade
$22.00
This book teaches and reteaches the math concepts found in the fourth
grade Virginia Standards of Learning in an upward spiraling level of
difficulty through its chapters, its lessons specifically designed in
sets of five days in 30 units. Because it provides lessons for teaching
and practice of fourth grade math concepts throughout the book, it can
be used for both a class or an individual student who has not mastered
a certain objective. The standards of learning for grade 4 math are
cross-referenced to the lessons in the front of the book for ease of
use, along with math terms. Found particularly helpful for students
who need reinforcement over a longer term to integrate the concepts.
Also ideal for fourth grade math practice in other states.
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Book: Hear Our Cry - Boys in Crisis
$22.00
Having witnessed newfound freedom for girls and women during the past two decades, researchers and educators are now turning their attention to the lack of simultaneous growth and autonomy among boys and men. Dr. Paul Slocumb has made this real-time crisis his focus, turning his insight on boys and their pain. He creates a riveting portrait of the emotional abyss that engulfs many of our male children. Particularly powerful are the book's six true case studies and the creative solutions he provides.
What's a Parent to Do? What's a Teacher to do? Supporting boys moving into manhood... An Inventory for Teachers and Parents.
Read the
Parent Quiz or
Teacher Quiz in Spanish.
Letter from a reader.
Testimonials:
Parents and educators have much work to do helping boys grow into men who can act with integrity, civility, and compassion.
- Barbara Coloroso, author of The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander.
I am honored to recommend this heartfelt book.
- Michael Gurian, Author of The Minds of Boys
Dr. Paul Slocumb has made this real-time crisis his focus, turning his insight on goys and their pain. He provides real-life answers to complex dilemma, sharing understandable and teachable objectives.
- Janet Miller, Ph.D., Psychologist
Also see
Boys in Crisis on DVD
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Book: Hidden Rules of Class at Work
$22.00
Hidden Rules of Class at Work, is written for people who
supervise others. It provides tools to identify an individual's strengths
and weaknesses by looking at his/her resources, an understanding of how
economic class influences opportunities to develop resources, an
understanding of how economic class influences - often subtly yet
significantly - behaviors that show up in the workplace and an understanding
of how the levels of an organization reflect the hidden rules of class.
Further Hidden Rules of Class at Work provides tools that will
help supervisors develop employees to function at the level of the
organization to which they have been promoted or are expected to function.
There are also tools to help determine how to spend training dollars
and assist with one's own promotion.
It's important to note that most supervision comes from mid-management
types of positions, which generally follow the hidden rules of middle
class. This book has no intention of judging one class as better than
another. Rather, different realities demand different types of behaviors
that, in turn, generate hidden rules. The ability of an individual to
fit into a work environment and be productive in that environment is
crucial to understanding workplace success.
This book's principal objective is to identify and articulate a number
of issues that are alive in the workplace - but that have seldom been
articulated previously. The book is intended to look at how issues of
class determine one's ability to survive in the workplace - and to offer
the tools necessary to move to a different level of the organization if
one so desires.
Review Excerpt
Hidden Rules of Class At Work:
"If you were trying to get people to think a little differently, it
certainly worked in my case. I will probably be rereading for a long
time."
Joe McNerney, Recruiting Advisor
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Book: Living on a Tightrope: a Survival Handbook for Principals
$22.00
While instructional leadership has been the principal's primary role
as identified in educational literature, the reality is that the
principal's role has become one of crisis management and an almost
judicial approach to legal issues. Written from their experience as
principals and based on research from the education and business realms,
Bill and Ruby outline their current thoughts on how to survive in the
daily work. It is like walking a tightrope.
This unique book provides a variety of activities to be used in the
balancing act of at least three tightropes of educational management:
managing relationships, managing power and managing identity. The book
explores the connection between personal and professional identity with
the role and responsibilities of the job. Most of the chapters are
about specific strategies to support daily work. An emphasis throughout
is on responding to conflict, how to do consensus building, and how to
manage polar opposites. Other strategies include: how to assess
instruction, planning for the future and leading change.
The activities and strategies are practical, useful, and immediately
applicable when confronted with those confounding dilemmas, ambiguities,
dichotomies, and enigmas that constitute the tightrope of life as a
school administrator.
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Book: Los Vyrosos: A Tale from the Varrio
$14.95
A Story about Struggle and its Fallout.
The struggle unfolds among the forgotten, invisible people living en las calles frias of a San Antonio varrio. There we find lost youth, hopeless and filled with self-hatred, who in just one generation have forgotten the compassion and wisdom of their elders—a wisdom grounded in grace, patience, resourcefulness, brutal hard work, and heroic courage in the face of doom. Now the jovenes fill the jail cells and cemeteries, and their roving gangas of brutal thugs bring terror and misery down on the hardworking gente.
Yet from this tempest grows a love story, a story of yearning for hope and meaning, a love of a lifetime caught in the storm of the cruel streets, calles mojades with la sangre de la Raza. It’s the story of Luna and Nazul, who begin to grasp the power to retrieve what has been lost. How they change the consciousness of their generation, loosen the grip of terror, and uphold the lessons and honor of their elders will forever change the way you think about the forgotten people living in the shadows of the American Dream.
Also available,
Los Vryosos Screensaver: See all the artwork from the Los Vryosos book on your computer screen.
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Book: Mr. Base Ten Invents Mathematics
$22.00
This intriguing story provides mental models that teach mathematical concepts at the foundational level. A glove maker who starts by sewing finger covers leads to his invention of place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and regrouping. He marries Decimal Point, and their children are Fractions. Newly available, it is printed in hard cover for long lasting classroom or home use. It is written by Bethanie Tucker, author of Tucker Signing Strategies for reading.
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Book: Nona Lisa #1 - The Hydrologic Heist
$3.95
Order today $3.95 / 10 for $37.00.
Nona Lisa's All Wet
A fun and entertaining way to teach a complicated concept in science—the hydrologic cycle.
Written by Jesse Conrad, this book fits with a current trend—Japanese comics (Manga) are very popular with kids in middle and high schools.
Private investigator Nona Lisa Nakamura may be in over her head. Literally.
When she's hired by HydroLogic Enterprises to recover a stolen
watercycle–a top-secret prototype of a vehicle with some very
special features–she thinks her only problem will be catching the suspected
thief. She quickly discovers that solving this case will be more complex than
she could have imagined and will require her to endure astonishing physical
transformations over land, underground, even through the clouds. Things are never
as they seem on the surface, and when Nona Lisa sees evidence of double-dealing
and deception, she dives right in to get to the bottom of it.
But who's the real thief? Why is the watercycle such a big deal?
Readers of all ages will love splashing through Nona Lisa #1: The HydroLogic Heist
to find out!
View excerpt
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Book: Parenting Someone Else's Child -- The Foster Parents' How-To Manual
$22.00
Ann Stressman wrote this book after hearing Ruby Payne speak about the hidden rules of economic class, combining that perspective into her two decades of personal experience with foster care agencies and the special children needing care. The result is a "nothing can surprise me" compilation of very helpful and enlightening approaches for hundreds of the parenting situations that arise. Dr. Payne has contributed a chapter in the book for how to help children in school, and Stressman includes information for grandparents and adoptive parents as well.
A wealth of information for parents told with humor and grace by a person who has fostered more than 100 children.
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Book: Reading by Age 5
$39.00
(Included in each book is a Tucker Strategies for Reading DVD)
See It, Sign It, Say It, Spell It
It’s a well know fact: The area of the brain responsible for language development shares nerve endings with the part of the brain responsible for motor coordination. No wonder young children love to use their hands to communicate! And that’s what makes Reading by Age 5 so revolutionary.
Fast results and great fun to teach—for teachers and parents!
A balanced blend of American Sign Language (ASL) and Tucker Signing Strategies (TSS), the easy-to-follow guidelines in Reading by Age 5 help caregivers teach children as young as 9 months to sign words and concepts, the building blocks of reading.
This proven, research-based program helps children:
- Develop language acquisition, phonemic awareness, and decoding skills
- Prepare a foundation for reading-comprehension skills
- Outperform fellow students on a variety of reading and pre-reading measurements
- Communicates their needs with less stress
- Bond with caregivers through eye contact and positive interactions
- Absorb knowledge more readily in other subject areas as well
National Study finds Tucker Signing Strategy for Reading produces greater gains for students.
"Tucker Signing Strategy can be an effective way of improving reading skills among students, including those with disabilities, says
2nd National Study, Indiana University
Visit the Tucker Signing Strategies website.
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Book: Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty
$25.00
Our educational culture typically categorizes students based upon
identified needs. When the mainstream program does not appear to meet
students' needs, they generally are categorized and aligned with a
special program that more closely addresses those needs. The placement
of gifted/talented students in special programs has generated
identification processes that emphasize fairness, ignoring the very
discrepancies that have created the differences in the students. Under
the guise of fairness, students are treated equally, but equity is
compromised in the process.
In Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty, Paul Slocumb and
Ruby Payne present an identification model that is based on a new paradigm.
They maintain that environmental factors often mask giftedness in students
from poverty, making their gifted attributes unrecognizable in schools
that operate by middle class's hidden rules.
Paul and Ruby propose that equity, not equality, needs to be at the heart
of any gifted assessment process. Without equity, students from poverty
will never be judged fairly, and disproportionate numbers of affluent
students will continue to be identified for gifted services while
excluding the non-affluent students. "There is nothing so unequal as
the equal treatment of unequals" (Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice).
Removing the Mask is a highly instructive book, providing dozens of
practical suggestions for teachers and administrators of gifted students.
The book offers an equitable identification process to find the gifts
in students from poverty. It also offers suggestions for teachers and
administrators on how to help gifted/talented students from poverty be
successful and remain in the program once they have been identified.
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Book: Think Rather of Zebra: Dealing with Aspects of Poverty Through Story
$18.00
Think Rather of Zebra is a delightful collection of short stories
crafted and adapted from more than forty classic and modern folktales
by Jay Stailey who reset them in an urban neighborhood. The book
follows two main characters, Carlos and Pete, as they tell stories from
their neighborhood and share the lessons of poverty. The stories that
these two characters tell are insightful, particularly to readers who
come from a middle-class or wealthy background.
These stories closely follow the work of Dr. Ruby Payne on understanding
the culture of poverty and the strong emphasis on oral tradition. At
the end of each chapter, Dr. Payne provides a series of questions that
can be used for discussion and deeper understanding. Jay and Ruby
wrote Zebra to help schools better understand and teach students
from poverty. The book can be read by adults or given to children to
help educate them about the effects poverty has on individuals.
If Framework had been written as the first installment of a sequence of
books, Think Rather of Zebra would certainly be the second
offering in that meaningful series.
Jay's talents are a natural fit for aha! Process, Inc. As a veteran
educator, freelance storyteller, and former chair of the National
Storytelling Association board, Jay gains daily insight into the lives of
today's students and is skilled at making stories relate to their lives.
Zebra stands alone as an insightful collection of classic tales and
is a must for students of Dr. Payne's work.
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Book: Un Marco Para Entender La Pobreza
$22.00
Una traducción al español del libro A Framework for Understanding Poverty,
por Ruby Payne, en el cual ella comparte sus percepciones de la cultura
de supervivencia y como la educación puede ayudar a personas de esa
cultura vencer los obstáculos de la pobreza.
A Spanish translation of Dr. Ruby Payne's A Framework for Understanding
Poverty which was Dr. Ruby Payne's first book and the first book RFT
Publishing Co. (now aha! Process, Inc.) published. It is fitting
that the book and the company's history are intertwined. The central
goal of the company is educating people about the differences that
separate economic classes and then teaching them skills to bridge those
gulfs. Framework is the method that delivers
that message.
Ruby's thesis for Framework is simple. Individuals accustomed
to personal poverty think and act differently from people in the middle
and upper economic classes. Most teachers today come from middle-class
backgrounds. Economic class differences, in an educational setting,
often make both teaching and learning challenging. Too often, teachers
don't understand why a student from poverty is chronically acting out
or is not grasping a concept even after repeated explanations. At the
same time, the student doesn't understand what he/she is expected to
produce and why. Ruby discusses at length the social cues or "hidden
rules" that govern how we think and interact in society – and the
significance of those rules in a classroom.
Framework also illuminates differences between generational
poverty and situational poverty. Ruby explains the "voices" that all
of us use to project ourselves to the outside world and how poverty can
affect those voices. Through the use of realistic teaching scenarios,
Ruby focuses attention on sources of support, or resources, which might
or might not be present in a student's life. Resources are important
assets – things like mental stability, emotional support, and physical
health – and the more resources students have in their lives, the better
able they'll be to achieve their goals.
Framework is a teacher's book. It draws on years of experience
in multiple school systems, along with a wide range of academic positions.
In this groundbreaking work Ruby Payne matter-of-factly presents the
issues central to teaching students from poverty, then takes a pivotal
next step by offering proven tools educators can use immediately to
improve the quality of instruction in their classrooms.
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Book: Under-Resourced Learners: 8 strategies to boost student achievement
$22.00
Under-Resourced Learners by Ruby Payne identifies resources all students need and delivers proven practical strategies for building up these resources for every student in every school. Teachers and administrators will find a gold mine of best practices and interventions to help embed those success strategies in their curricula, and in the minds and lives of their students.
You’ll discover new ways to:
- Assess student resources to determine the best strategies and interventions
- Build mental, language, relationship, and other resources into your teaching
- Work more effectively with parents and community representatives
- Increase support systems for all students and their families
- Monitor every student’s progress and adjust efforts to increase student performance
Read excerpt
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Book: Until It's Gone
$14.95
The first action plan that joins the resources of individuals, organizations, communities, and government to eradicate poverty. Learn about the Circles™ Campaign and how you can help eliminate barriers confronted by those in poverty. Become an ally to those in need and a transformational leader in your community.
Review: Scott Miller offers us practical hope that we can end—not just reduce—poverty through a change in the way we think and respond.
Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Your LIfe
The Circles Campaign has captured the imaginations of people of conscience across the United States, including educators, social workers, community organizers, faith leaders, business leaders, and politicians.
Download the helpful section from Until It's Gone, 8 Ways to End Poverty in Your Community.
Read an excerpt from Until It’s Gone.
Listen to a podcast (short |long
) of Scott Miller discussing his new book, Until It's Gone: Ending Poverty In Our Nation In Our Lifetime.
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Book: What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty
$22.00
Churches often are perceived as open, welcoming environments, and many times that's true. But congregations, without even realizing it, sometimes make themselves inhospitable to people from poverty. For those situations, Dr. Ruby K. Payne and Bill Ehlig wrote What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty.
Many church folks genuinely want to be available to those experiencing poverty in their communities. However, churches and synagogues often are operated with a middle-class mentality. This middle-class mode of thought makes it difficult for those from poverty to assimilate into the congregation. In this new book, Ruby, a national expert on poverty, and Bill, an ordained minister, use stories to help illustrate the way people from poverty view middle-class churches. They then provide solutions and tactics to teach church members and leaders some of the special considerations that can be afforded the disadvantaged.
For example, the book explains that members of the congregation need to reach out to those poverty-stricken individuals who are attending their services, along with prospective attendees. The congregation needs to do this in a way that mutual respect is developed instead of a sense of charity. If all individuals are allowed to contribute to, as well as receive the benefits of membership, an equal relationship can be created and a welcoming environment fostered.
What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty is a must-read for pastors, ministers, church councils, and other religious decision-making bodies. As more churches around the country engage in urban ministries, the information in What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty becomes even more significant and relevant.
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Book: Working with Students: Discipline Strategies for the Classroom
$10.00
Written by Dr. Payne, this powerful little guide on classroom discipline will help you get a handle on your classroom management. You will discover how to handle different personalities, respond effectively to various types of parenting, set rules and guidelines for behaviors and consequences, reduce inappropriate behaviors and improve student performance.
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Kit: The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra (Book & CD)
$35.00
Students missing concepts needed for algebra? Positive and negative numbers, exponents, and linear equations are among the algebraic concepts illuminated in this medieval story featuring Al and Gebra, teenage superheroes who make algebra understandable and fun.
The Journey of Al and Gebra has been extended from the last page of the book onto your projector. Order the book and Powerpoint CD together and save.
- More than 90 slides summarize, highlight, or remind students about each of
the algebra and pre-algebra skills covered in the story.
- May be used as a powerpoint or printed onto your own transparencies.
- An excellent resource for the classroom, small group intervention and
extended day or year programs.
- The perfect complementary companion for use with a class set of The Journey of Al and Gebra.
View Sample
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