New Releases by Nancy Allen

Discover clever, beginner-friendly strategies for showcasing the abundance of fabrics available today--as well as the fabrics in your stash. Choose from nine quilt patterns that are each shown in three different colorways: "coordinated scrappy," "planned scrappy," and "make-do scrappy" Learn tips, tricks, and techniques including paper piecing, appliqué, alternatives for making half-square triangles, strip piecing, chain piecing, and more Create quilts that use fat eighths, fat quarters, and yardage, as well as precut strips and squares

Hopping on the Number Line represents addition and subtraction using a number line.

Immigrants Sailed From Faraway Lands To Come To America For Opportunity. This Book Includes Their Experiences At Ellis Island, The Struggles Of Finding Employment, And Learning A New Language In A Strange, New World.

Twelve college students share insider knowledge and advice.

What''s A Fraction? Teaches The Concepts Related To Fractions (E.G., Numerator And Denominator).

This Math Concept Book Engages Young Readers Through Simple Text And Photos As They Learn About Symmetry.

This Math Concept Book Engages Young Readers Through Simple Text And Photos As They Learn About Attributes.

One Greyhound''s Journey and Tail of Two Brothers now presented in one volume. These stories are recounted from the point of view of the greyhounds and provide an in-depth and profound look into the lives of racing greyhounds before, during and after their careers. Follow "Fond A Hunk" from his puppyhood on a greyhound farm in Florida through his racing career and on to becoming a pet. In the second story, watch as he is reunited with his litter-mate Marky.

This publication presents the reports from two studies, Math Online (MOL) and Writing Online (WOL), part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Technology-Based Assessment (TBA) project. Funded by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Technology-Based Assessment project is intended to explore the use of new technology in NAEP. This publication is organized into two parts. Part I, Online Assessment in Mathematics, contains the report from the Math Online study. Part II, Online Assessment in Writing, contains the report from the Writing Online study. Each report is paginated separately. Appended to Part I are: (1) Inter-Rater Reliability; (2) Ease of Assessing Existing NAEP Framework Content Areas on Computer; (3) Students Omitting, Not Reaching, and Giving Off-Task Responses; (4) Test Mode by Population Group Contrasts; (5) Self-Reported Computer Experience; and (6) Student Mathematics Performance on Computer-Based Test and Paper-and-Pencil Test by Self-Reported Computer Experience. Appended to Part II are: (1) Sample Selection; (2) Understanding NAEP Reporting Groups; (3) Writing Online Hands-On Editing Tasks; (4) Writing Online Speed and Accuracy Tasks; (5) Background Questions Administered in Writing Online; (6) NAEP Grade 8 Writing Scoring Guides; (7) Statistical Procedures; (8) Percentage of Writing Online Students Who Report Using a Computer for Different Specific Writing Purposes; (9) Summary Statistics for Computer Familiarity Measures; and (10) Analysis of Variance Results Relating Computer Familiarity and Gender to Writing Online Performance. (Part I contains 42 tables and 22 figures; Part II contains 43 tables and 19 figures.).

A gutsy woman''s tale of marrying the Chief Mate of a mammoth containership and sailing the seas with today''s modern mariners.