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50 Simple Things You Can Do to Raise a Child Who Loves Math (50 Simple Things Series) (Paperback)

by Kathy A. Zahler (Author)
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New! Fun parent-child activities that can give kids a lifelong love of math! This newest volume in ARCOs popular 50 Simple Things series is ideal for parents who want to give their young children a head start in math. Created by a distinguished educator, it offers fifty fun parent-child activities that can help kids develop simple math skills and problem-solving confidence. Each activity gives clear and easy instructions on how to solve problems, plus examples, tips, and shortcuts. Special activity sections show how to approach more difficult concepts. There is also advice on eliminating math myths, avoiding sexist attitudes, and incorporating math into your daily activities. Kathy A. Zahler, M.A., is the author of acclaimed elementary math and languate arts textbooks.
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General Knowledge Matters (A Quick Plug for Test Yr Cultural Literacy)

9:05 AM PST, January 31, 2006
from the Alaska Justice Forum
  • 122 university students enrolled in General Education courses at UAA responded to a 15-item questionnaire to evaluate their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. Only 3 of the 15 questions were answered correctly by more than 70 percent of the respondents.  
from the 2003 Trends in International Math & Science Study
  • In science, U.S. eighth-graders were outperformed by eighth-grade students in the following eight countries: Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Estonia, Japan, Hungary, and Netherlands.
  • In math, U.S. eighth-graders were outperformed by their peers in 14 countries: Singapore, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Belgium, Netherlands, Estonia, Hungary, Malaysia, Latvia, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, and Australia.
from the National Association for Scholars, 2002
  • Contemporary college seniors scored on average little or no higher than the high-school graduates of a half-century ago on a battery of 15 questions assessing general cultural knowledge. The questions, drawn from a survey originally done by the Gallup Organization in 1955, covered literature, music, science, geography, and history. The overall average of correct responses for the entire general knowledge survey was 53.5% for today's college seniors, 54.5% for the 1955 high school graduates, and 77.3% for the 1955 college graduates.

Lotsa reasons for these statistics, but the upshot is that we're raising kids who cannot analyze world or national events intelligently enough to be informed voters and who cannot hope to compete in a 21st century world economy.  See my favorite read of the month, Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, for why this matters.
 
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Musings on the Brave New World of Publishing

5:47 PM PST, December 2, 2005
Wow, it's SO interesting to skim my page on Amazon. It's a complete history of publishing-run-amok, right on a single page. Diane's and my first title, Arco Test Your Cultural Literacy, was a fun book. It's still the best edition (see product photo), because it has my original preface, which reveals my personal attitude toward the concept of cultural literacy (not particularly positive), and it is NOT disguised as a test-prep book. Arco, a division of Simon & Schuster, was gutted and the product was sold off shortly after we published Test Your Countercultural Literacy (with an even better preface) and What Do You Know About Sex?--both now out of print, but loads of fun and still available via Amazon's used books--check 'em out! (It's fascinating to note that some of the used booksellers refer to the "hardcover" edition of WDYKAS; I'm 99% sure there was never any such thing.) Anyway, the rights were sold and then sold again and then resold once more, and Diane and I had to track them around the country before rediscovering the title at Peterson's. No one there or anywhere else, mind you, had bothered to tell us who owned our book. Peterson's published a "test-prep" edition that did not sell nearly as well as the original, and then they sold the mass market rights to--wait for it--Simon & Schuster, the original owner. S&S repackaged the Peterson version and sold that in a new size with a new cover. I'm not entirely sure the editors there ever knew that it had been their title to begin with. 

Meanwhile, two titles that I really loved, the two Arco 50 Simple Things titles, were in limbo, but Peterson's decided to pick up 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read, which they repackaged but left mostly intact. I believe they have now gone back to press with a new title for the same book, but I don't really know, because I'm just the author. You can still find the Math book used on Amazon, so if you have a child with needs in that area, do look for it.

When I first entered the world of publishing as an editor in the school division of McGraw-Hill, it was a stable world that made some kind of sense. Mergers and acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s changed everything. My story is not unique, nor is it particularly instructive. It just is the way it is--the brave new world of publishing  
 
 
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