Category: Education

A journalist and aspiring "speedcuber" attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik's Cube--think chess played at the speed of Ping-Pong--while exploring the Cube's rise to iconic status around the globe and the lessons that can be learned through solving it.

When Hungarian professor Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in the 1970s out of wooden blocks, rubber bands, and paper clips, he didn't even know if it could be solved, let alone that it would become the world's most popular puzzle. Since its creation, the Cube has become ...
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Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement, Second Edition

By: Schmoker, Mike

Price: $4.29

Publisher: Assn for Supervision & Curriculum: August 1999

Seller ID: 90581

ISBN: 0871203561

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Argues that all school efforts should be focused on results, detailing the conditions that favor results and how schools can create the favorable conditions required.
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Janice VanCleave's Physics for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments in Motion, Heat, Light, Machines, and Sound

By: VanCleave, Janice

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Wiley: March 1991

Seller ID: 45496

ISBN: 0471525057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How do magnets work? What makes a curve ball curve? What keeps an airplane in the air? How can a pulley make you five times stronger? Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions about basic physics through 101 fun, safe, low-cost experiments and activities that can be performed at home or in the classroom. In Physics for Every Kid, you'll learn about gravity from funnels that seem to defy nature by rolling up hill. Using a balloon as a power source, you'll make a fluorescent light bulb glow and learn how electrons are used to produce light. And you'll levitate a Ping-Pong...
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