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Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Celebrating Summer with "The Geometry of Gardens"!

"The Geometry of Gardens," a workbook for late elementary grade students, offers 30 full-color pictures for practicing geometry skills. These diagrams of gardens and landscaping allow students to use a protractor to measure angles and use a ruler to calculate the area of geometrical shapes. Students can also practice making proportional calculations on diagrams pertaining to scale.

This book is available in multiple options from Amazon. It can be purchased as a Kindle e-book for only $4. Amazon also offers two plans for reading the book for free! With a Kindle Unlimited subscription for $9.99 per month, readers gain free access to this book and 600,000 other e-books. Currently, Amazon is offering a free 30-day trial to KindleUnlimited! Another option is to borrow the book for free with an Amazon Prime subscription at $99 per year.

"The Geometry of Gardens" is also available in print. CreateSpace offers the print edition  at a retail price of $12, with a discount for wholesale only. Amazon usually offers the book at a discount of approximately 10%, for $10.80.

This book is part of a series of geometry workbooks by the same author. Other selections include sports, home construction, and architecture. Additional information about the series is available in this blog under Math Education and at the Schottenbauer Publishing website under Education:Math.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Low Cost Books with Amazon Kindle Unlimited for $9.99/Month!

With Amazon Kindle Unlimited for $9.99/Month, it is possible to read all e-books from Schottenbauer Publishing at no extra charge! Amazon is currently offering a free 30-day trial to Amazon Kindle Unlimited, so these books can be read right now entirely for free. 

September Update: Amazon Kindle Unlimited is available in the USA and UK, with expansion to other world locations expected soon!

Schottenbauer Publishing offers 51 books and editions through Kindle. These e-books represent approximately 20% of the number of Schottenbauer Publishing books offered in print through CreateSpace and Amazon!

E-book editions include the following:


In addition to these e-books, Schottenbauer Publishing offers a wide selection of printed educational books in science and math, sports, health, and music, as well as multimedia online resources in music education. Additional information on these and other selections is available at: Schottenbauer Publishing Website.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

New Arrival: "The Geometry of Summer Olympic Sports"!

Just in time for summer, the new geometry workbook series "The Geometry of Summer Olympic Sports" has arrived! Now, children can learn as Blue Dude ("Blue Person") participates in a variety of summer Olympic sports: archery, boxing, canoe/kayak, cycling, diving, fencing, football/soccer, golf, gymnastics, handball, high jump, hurdles, javelin, long jump, shooting, shot put, sprinting, swimming, synchronized swimming, trampoline, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling! Primarily intended to teach protractor skills in math class, the book can also be flexibly used for art and sports classes. This fun and exciting workbook is now available in CreateSpace Wholesale and Retail, Amazon Discount Retail, and Amazon Kindle e-Book editions, in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, plus print editions in Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Hindi! 

Fans of the Olympics might also be interested in "The Geometry of Winter Olympic Sports," featuring Alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross country skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge, Nordic combined, speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, and snowboard! This book is available in the same languages and editions (print and Kindle e-book) as above. Several other geometry books are also available on specific topics, including gymnastics, figure skating, water sports, yoga, and ballet.

Additional information on these and other books can be found at Schottenbauer Publishing under "Education: Math."

Monday, February 24, 2014

Enjoy Summer Science Camp at Home!

Creative families can enjoy a cost-effective summer science camp at home this year, with the assistance of science lab manuals with graphs and data from Schottenbauer Publishing! 

Schottenbauer Publishing offers a wide selection of low-cost science lab manuals, with graphs and data for science classes from 7th grade through high school, to introductory college and university level classes.  Readers can enjoy the following exciting topics, most of which are already available in both English and German:




Each book is filled with exciting graphs and data, following a particular theme. Graphs and data can be used for thousands of lesson plans by teachers, tutors, parents, home-school families, and independent study students. 

The lab manuals can be flexibly used for many different age levels and purposes. At the simplest level, the books can be used to foster graph-reading skills for 7th graders in math or physical science classes. At more advanced levels, high school, college, and university students can enjoy the lab manuals as a supplement to traditional lectures in physics, mathematics, engineering, biology, health, and physical education classes.




Free Samples

Free samples are available for download from the Schottenbauer Publishing website:
  • Where Does Sound Come From? [Selections]
  • Glide, Spin, & Jump!: The Science of Ice Skating [Selections]

Previews


YouTube contains a new, exciting series of videos with previews of the lab manuals. Summaries of each book are provided on this blog under the menu option for Science Education. F
ree preview pages for most lab manuals are available on Amazon.


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