Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education: Forging New Paths is about enhancing the practices of mathematics teachers by extending the concepts of access, equity, and empowerment to include students living with all types of disabilities. These students are rarely thought of as mathematics doers and thinkers, and so are seldom offered opportunities to engage in mathematics in meaningful and connected ways. Humanizing Disability examines the current mindset and pedagogy that students with different learning needs encounter, and then offers strategies and practices to humanize the mathematics experience for these students.In the first part of the book, the authors lay out some key ideas about humanizing mathematics education for students with disabilities. As teachers of mathematics of teacher educators and students with disabilities, as well as with their own backgrounds as learners with identified disabilities, the authors’ case and perspective are informed by hands-on episodes of their work and their own lived experiences. Foundational to the authors’ advocacy are these compelling concepts:Students with disabilities are mathematics doers and thinkers.There are multiple ways of knowing and doing mathematics.The idea that disability is a tragedy must be resisted.Humanizing mathematics education is a matter of human rights to counter conventional, deficit-centered forms of education involving students with disabilities.Humanizing the mathematics education of students with disabilities enhances the learning of all. Theory and argument isn’t practice, so Humanizing Disability offers practical examples of implementation through the exploration of singular cases of how an Individual Education Plan (IEP) can be a powerful tool for access, equity, and inclusivity for the disabled learner; of using funds of knowledge and of identity to navigate the education system; and of building inclusive classrooms and communities.Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education: Forging New Paths offers an inclusive way to think about mathematics education involving individuals with disabilities. It goes beyond the walls of the mathematics classrooms to address issues of dignity, access, and empowerment. For those whose mission it is to bring meaningful mathematics to each and every student, it is a must-have reference for your professional library.
Bryan Boling; Benjamin Boudreaux; Alexis A Blanc; Christy Foran; Moon Kim; Kelly Klima; Erin N Leidy; Samantha McBirney; Danielle C Tarraf; Edward Geist
This report presents the development and implementation of a technology assessment process to help the Army understand the implications of key emerging technologies that could be crucial to Army missions in the years 2035 to 2050. This work aims to assist the Army for shifting operational environments, such as operations in extreme weather conditions. Emerging technologies might help the Army succeed in key missions and promote U.S. interests.
This is Alexia's first official published work of poems. Although she has notebooks full of poetry. Her favorite poets include: Langston Hughes, Jill Scott, Tupac, Maya Angelou, Khalil Gibran, Rumi, Nikki Giovanni, and Phyllis Wheatley. Her favorite musicians include: Tupac, Aaliyah, DMX, Eve, Ashanti, Busta Rhymes, Lecrae, Mary Mary, Cassidy, The Game, Kendrick Lamar, J.Cole, A Tribe Called Quest, Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Eminem, Alicia Keys, and more. This has helped shape Alexia along with her own life experiences. "This poetry is magic, enigmatic, the black goddess as school girl, wife and mother. This poetry is influenced by rap music/poetry, is experiential and protest poetry, often in Black meme, the voice of the Poet is just forming as she is only 25 years old. This Writer experiences this Poet as a young Gwendolyn Brooks. The themes include protest poetry against war, racism, hard times and poverty and includes love of her husband, her son and God. The Poet harkens to the New American School with work that plays with syntax and uses symbols. The truncated thoughts are original with flashes of brilliance and often with ryhmes, rhyming couplets and rhyme at the end of lines, the hallmark of rap poetry. Within the work are some Haiku and longer pieces and a series of poems under 20 lines that gel exquisitely, they are like mainline rap, that bang in the dance and roll in liked tied packages. A truthtelling, the rock and roll of relationship, home life, experiences with society all rolled into rap poetry." - Subterranean Blue Poetry
This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on the development of Greek New Comedy, both in the presentation and choice of characters and in the structuring of the type of New Comedy plot associated in particular with Menander. Professor Arnott's commentary is multi-faceted, discussing textual transmission; the interpretation of Alexis's language, meaning and style; the dramatic background and its relevance to the comedy; and the relation of the material to the social and political history of the time. The commentary constitutes a significant contribution to the study of the development of comedy in the fourth century BC, and to our knowledge and precise interpretation of fourth-century Attic Greek. Since the fragments are readily available in the Kassel-Austin edition, the Greek text is not included.
This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on the development of Greek New Comedy, both in the presentation and choice of characters and in the structuring of the type of New Comedy plot associated in particular with Menander. Professor Arnott's commentary is multi-faceted, discussing textual transmission; the interpretation of Alexis's language, meaning and style; the dramatic background and its relevance to the comedy; and the relation of the material to the social and political history of the time. The commentary constitutes a significant contribution to the study of the development of comedy in the fourth century BC, and to our knowledge and precise interpretation of fourth-century Attic Greek. Since the fragments are readily available in the Kassel-Austin edition, the Greek text is not included.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Library of CongressW015323Attributed to Fran ois Guillaume Ducray-Duminil in: Biographie nouvelle des contemporains, Paris, 1827. Edition statement transposed; precedes "Ornamented with handsome copper-plates." on title page. Printer's monogram device on title page.Boston: From the press of Alexander Martin, Quaker-Lane. For Thomas and Andrews, and W.P. and L. Blake, October, 1796. 2],269, 3]p., 2]leaves of plates: ill.; 12
A schedule-driven therapist lassoes a mystery along with a charming doctor. Alexis is a talented therapist and horse lover. Her ranch provides valuable physical therapy on horseback for special needs children. She is focused on finding funding to keep her ranch going through the winter. When the extremely attractive and very charming Dr. Gabriel Torres comes to stay at the ranch for three months and interrupts her carefully planned program, Alexis fights to keep her clients happy and her heart away from him. She has no interest in a relationship that must end with the summer. But when an ancient piece of pottery ropes in a mystery, Gabriel may be the only one who can keep Alexis and her heart safe. The is the fourth book in the Western Hearts Series. All books in the series can be read as stand alone, clean and wholesome, romance novels.
Is Alexis doomed to a life of food misery or is there a happy ever after for her?A gift of weight loss surgery... A string of event no one could have foreseen.A woman who now has a glamorous face and body...and a romance.But will her midlife victory become hollow when his ex-wife wants to reconcile?You can't read about Alexis' trials and tribulations without rooting for her every step of the way.From a two-time USA Today Bestselling Author comes the first in the Midlife Journey Series.Scroll up and click on Buy Now.
Matt had been sexually abusing Alexis for fourteen years. It started after their son, Jimmy, had been born. After sexually abusing her with a mini-baseball bat, Matt gave her the option, "Okay, Alexis, you or the baby. Make your choice now."She pleaded with him. "Matt, please don't touch the baby. Do anything to me, but please, please don't touch the baby.""Okay, Alexis, one word to authorities, one sound comes out of you, and I go straight to that miserable piece of crap that came out of you. You know I can't control myself once I get that urge. Yeah, yeah, I know he's my kid, but I have no control, you know that. Watch what you say and do. It might turn out to be both of you when I get like this," said Matt.Just after he turned fourteen, Jimmy was killed in a drive-by shooting. Alexis was devastated. She missed her baby. She was heartbroken. It was a horrible way for it to happen, but it became her way out. Now all her fantasies of how to leave Matt could be realized.Will she make it? Will she be able to get away before the urge to use the bat on her again overtakes him? She knew if she got away and he found her, he would kill her. He had a girlfriend. In the past, it always saved her when he had a girlfriend. She didn't understand why that worked in her favor, but she'd take it.
