Guides to Assessment in Education: Mathematics
Teachers make assessments all the time for a whole variety of reasons. Assessment is essential to teaching. It has to be acknowledged that although getting to know students thoroughly is part of a teacher's expected load, assessment does represent a noticeable burden. Above all, the report tries to emphasize assessment as a…
The Physics of Heat Capacity
Part of the Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences series, The Physics of Heat Capacity includes chapters on the heat capacities of gases and solids, and ideas for experimental projects. Chapter 1, on the heat capacities of gases looks at the kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics and equipartition of energy. The chapter…
Applications of Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry
Applications of Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was written for a student who has studied organic chemistry and has some familiarity with the chemistry of the main functional groups in aliphatic molecules. Methods…
Energy Levels in Chemistry
Energy Levels in Chemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. This book is concerned with the molecular model, and with how this model can be developed in an elegant and coherent way to relate the energy levels of a molecule to the energy changes of a system. Contents 1.…
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The topics discussed in the monograph were divided into two main groups: • Electrical conduction of electrolytes in aqueous solution • Electron transfer processes Contents 1. The conduction of electricity…
The Principles of Radiochemistry
The Principles of Radiochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The purpose of this book was to introduce the principles of radiochemistry to sixth form and first year university students. Emphasis was placed on the principles and the mathematics was been kept…
Relativity
Relativity was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was intended as an introduction to the subject both for sixth forms in schools and for university students. Exercises were included in the text to illuminate important points of the discussion. In addition the…
An Approach to Primary Science: a Book for Teachers of Juniors and Infants
Published by Macmillan in 1969 this book was aimed at developing science teaching and learning through everyday activities familiar to children. It was written to support teachers who were not science specialists and help them become more confident in finding opportunities to teach science within the primary curriculum. It is…
Teaching Science: a Teaching Skills Workbook
This book was designed to examine basic teaching skills in a specialist subject area - in this case, science. The text was laid out as a workbook so that the practitioner could use his or her own classroom as a basis for progressive professional, self-development. Impetus for the series came out of the government-financed Teacher…
Practical Statistics
This resource provides a large number of practical statistical activities to find a statistical model to fit a particular situation and is designed for use in the A-level classroom. The first chapter contains an overview of basic statistical techniques such as collecting and organising data. Different methods of representing…
Guides to Assessment in Education: Science
This book for teachers in the Guides to Assessment in Education series published by Macmillan, was intended to be particularly useful to primary head teachers and those with responsibility for science. It is also relevant to middle school and lower secondary science teachers. It begins with a chapter on learning in science and…
Children Learning Mathematics - a Teacher's Guide to Recent Research
The Low Attainers in Mathematics Project has two aims; to bring to the notice of teachers the current knowledge about learning processes in mathematics which resulted in the writing of this book and to provide information to teachers and advisers about the ways in which primary, middle and secondary schools deal with students who…
Science 5/13: a Formative Evaluation
A Formative Evaluation of the Science 5-13 project is a book of 128 pages, published by Macmillan education in 1975. It describes the evaluation which took place throughout the project and which fed information from trials into the revision of the Science 5/13 Units for teachers. It records the history, aims and procedures of the…