Textbooks

How to Save Your Money on College Textbooks? So where can I get the cheapest textbook? This is the question either college students ask themselves or their professors every semester. Even some students that are in their fourth or fifth semester are still dealing with the problem, where do I find the cheapest book or how much can I save on textbook? So far I am in my third semester and I still haven't paid a penny on college textbook. Especially freshman year in college, most people will take…

integrated into the learning process. On the other hand, if we were to remove textbooks from the classroom will not make it easier to learn but rather more difficult. Many small and large schools have already switched over to tablets for all of their school work. Muller Road Middle School of South Carolina has gone paperless and Burlington High School of Massachusetts has pledged to stop buying books. Student’s textbooks should not be replaced by tablets. Technology can be distracting from the…

Technology or Textbooks Have you ever sat down and wondered if technology has improved or lessened the learning scale of the education system? What determines this? It’s not whether or not the information is useful, but it’s the factors of our everyday lives in school that determine whether technology is really the best option. On average, students in the U.S. get about 15% of the teacher’s work time when needed and in the class room there are 30 students to get around to. Unlike the teacher,…

two-page papers on the Holy Trinity of Hinduism and Karma. To be able to write these papers I decided it would be helpful to read through the Hinduism chapter of the World Religions Textbook. The video, “How to Read Your Textbooks More Efficiently – College Info Geek” by Thomas Frank outlined some tips for reading textbooks for a reason other than just to look over a certain amount of pages in a certain amount of time. Some of the tips he gave were specific for reading a text for the purpose of…

increasing prices of textbooks. When a student decides to attend college, there are many expenses to keep in mind such as tuition, supplies, program fees, books and not to mention living expenses for those who choose to live on campus. Students can easily spend $300 on a single textbook, and that’s just for one book, one class. With all the expenses and the increasing costs of textbook, the issue of giving college students free textbooks has been controversial. Since textbooks are one of the…

more represented in music textbooks. On the one hand, some argue that women haven’t made enough significant contributions to music to warrant being prominent in textbooks and literature . On the other hand, some argue that it would be inaccurate to portray women in textbooks as it wouldn’t have been seen as important at the time . A final viewpoint, suggest that women have made significant contributions and innovations in music and should thus be more prominent in textbooks and literature .…

the best things caretakers can do is to figure out and be aware of their child’s or little friend’s position in terms of development as it will make it much easier to choose appropriate toys, rules and ways of discipline. Comparing a child to a ‘’textbook child’’ or what a child his age is typically expected to be able to do regarding social, emotional, cognitive, language, fine and gross motor skills can be an effective way to place the child in an appropriate level of development for his…

Online Textbooks When I was in the K-12 school system, I remember at the beginning of every year, the teacher would call us students up by name to sign for an old, hardcover, seven to ten-pound textbook with horrible illustrations on the cover. Then, as the year went on, I was expected to lug this book all over the school building until the end of the year. If I somehow lost track of the textbook, I would be hit with a seventy-five dollar to a two-hundred-dollar bill. I thought I would have to…

They have to make the decision whether they should move to an all digital learning style or keep teaching as they are, with printed textbooks and paper. There are problems with keeping printed textbooks and continuing to have paper assignments. Problems include textbooks weighing too much, textbooks costing too much, and the problem of accidentally losing textbooks and assignments, or leaving them at school. The main solution to this problem is for schools to completely switch to an all digital…

state of sexism in English textbooks used in Japan. The object of ten textbooks is published between 1989 and 1992, which is divided introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. This article examined the sexism from nine aspects: the number of female and male characters, the number of female and male sentences, main characters’ qualifications, the image of occupation, adjective usage, activities, pronounce of animals, others and original written year of the textbooks. From the first and…