Shanta Everington

Supporting transition from primary to secondary in maths Engage all students with fun activities, a colourful presentation and a write-on formatBuild confidence with quick quizzes, check-up questions and extended activitiesCheck progress with 3 revision sections and 18 unitsMapped to the NCETM ‘Ready-to-progress' criteria, helping you assess when students are ready for the next challengeTried, tested and trusted by Key Stage 3 teachers for over 10 years as part of the Level Up seriesSuitable for classroom and independent use Numbers 1-2, 2-3 and 3-4 in the Level Up Maths: Access workbooks refer to National Curriculum levels. National Curriculum levels are no longer used in schools but were widely used when the Level Up titles were originally published in 2008. There are no references to levels within the workbook pages. Contents IntroductionUnit 1 Pattern PerfectUnit 2 Number knowledgeUnit 3 Made to measureUnit 4 Bit partsUnit 5 Diving into dataUnit 6 Forming formulaeUnit 7 Whose line is it anyway? Revision 1Unit 8 Data delightsUnit 9 Operations overloadUnit 10 All about algebraUnit 11 Twists and turnsUnit 12 Put things in proportionUnit 13 Balancing act Revision 2Unit 14 Shape makeoverUnit 15 Investigating informationUnit 16 Safety in numbersUnit 17 The return of algebraUnit 18 In good shape Revision 3

Storying the Menopause presents a kaleidoscope of multi-faceted lived experience, offering a diverse and illuminating range of stories, foregrounding often hidden voices, which expand our understanding of the menopause in 21st century UK. Menopause is different for everyone, as evidenced by the stories within this book – many stories speak of despair, difficulty, loss and pain, but they also speak of uprising, liberation, freedom and release.Everington takes an evocative auto/ethnographical approach, using life writing and reflection to explore the author’s own personal experience and the experience of others, connecting these autobiographical and biographical stories to wider cultural, political and social understandings of menopause.Offering a body of collaboratively produced testimonies, drawing on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in gender and women’s studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, the sociology of ageing, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history, and ethnography studies.

Storying the Menopause presents a kaleidoscope of multifaceted lived experience, offering a diverse and illuminating range of stories that foreground often hidden voices, thereby expanding our understanding of the menopause in twenty-first-century UK. Menopause is different for everyone, as evidenced by the stories within this book – many stories speak of despair, difficulty, loss and pain, but they also speak of uprising, liberation, freedom and release. Everington takes an evocative auto/ethnographical approach, using life writing and reflection to explore the author’s own personal experience and the experience of others, connecting these autobiographical and biographical stories to wider cultural, political and social understandings of menopause. Offering a body of collaboratively produced testimonies, drawing on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in gender and women’s studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, the sociology of ageing, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history and ethnography studies.

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners – the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors – who make motherhood possible for them.Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child, Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy.Offering a fresh approach to life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies, gender and women’s studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history and ethnography studies.

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners – the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors – who make motherhood possible for them.Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child, Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy.Offering a fresh approach to life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies, gender and women’s studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history and ethnography studies.

Supporting transition from primary to secondary in maths Engage all students with fun activities, a colourful presentation and a write-on formatBuild confidence with quick quizzes, check-up questions and extended activitiesCheck progress with 3 revision sections and 18 unitsMapped to the NCETM ‘Ready-to-progress' criteria, helping you assess when students are ready for the next challengeTried, tested and trusted by Key Stage 3 teachers for over 10 years as part of the Level Up seriesSuitable for classroom and independent use Numbers 1-2, 2-3 and 3-4 in the Level Up Maths: Access workbooks refer to National Curriculum levels. National Curriculum levels are no longer used in schools but were widely used when the Level Up titles were originally published in 2008. There are no references to levels within the workbook pages. Contents IntroductionUnit 1 All in orderUnit 2 Know your numbersUnit 3 Sizing upUnit 4 Part and parcelUnit 5 More than the averageUnit 6 Formula oneUnit 7 Between the lines Revision 1Unit 8 Get the factsUnit 9 Work it outUnit 10 Algebra up closeUnit 11 Taking a different angleUnit 12 More, less or the same?Unit 13 Express yourself Revision 2Unit 14 Shape upUnit 15 Statistics sortedUnit 16 Number crunchingUnit 17 Algebra rulesUnit 18 Getting into shape Revision 3