Best Selling Books by Anne Collins

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Differentiate problem solving in your classroom using effective, research-based strategies. This lesson and problem solving task require students to read a graph to solve a problem. The problem-solving mini-lesson guides teachers in how to teach differentiated lessons. The student activity sheet features a problem tiered at three levels.

Anne Collins and Linda Dacey provide a set of thirty research-based modules designed to engage all students in mathematical learning that develops conceptual understanding, addresses common misconceptions, and builds key ideas that are essential to future learning. --from publisher description.

Accessible Algebra is for any pre-algebra or algebra teacher who wants to provide a rich and fulfilling experience to students as they develop new ways of thinking through and about algebra. Each of the thirty lessons in this book identifies and addresses a focal domain and standard in algebra, then lays out the common misconceptions and challenges students may face as they work to investigate and understand problems. Anne and Steve met with and listened to students in real classrooms as the students explained what problem-solving strategies they were using or worked to ask the right questions.

Yelena is a Sidhe and a Nest Daughter, a princess in her own right. In an attempt to put her dark past behind her, she ventured out of her nest one morning - and caught sight of Damon. From there started an illegal, illicit, and very secret one-sided love. Despite her best friend''s worries, Yelena just can''t get Damon out of her mind. In the midst of this, a serial killer strikes her nest, originally killing those close to Yelena, but then branching out. Yelena is terrified; she knows exactly who the killer is, and she had hoped never to see him again. Swallowing her fear, she goes to find him. But what will happen when Lady Yelena, Nest Daughter of the Nest of the Wavewalker, comes face to face with a powerful killer? Can she hope to destroy him when she can''t even bring herself to destroy his soldiers?

The study of past hurricanes to help interpret the patterns of current and future tropical storms is vital to our economy, society, and infrastructure. Understanding how hurricanes are influenced by a warm climate is critical, and hurricane reconstructions from former periods of the Holocene (the last ~11,500 yr) will be beneficial. Paleotempestology is the study of past tropical cyclones and uses historical, biological, and geological proxies to reconstruct tropical cyclone activity to create a record of historical hurricane patterns. A tropical cyclone (TC) is a chaotic weather event that is influenced by several elements, including warm ocean waters from which TCs directly draw energy. In this study, linear regression was iteratively performed on tree-ring data developed at Lake Louise in Valdosta, Georgia, with monthly climate values (precipitation, temperature, PDSI) and monthly oscillation indices (ENSO, AMO, NAO). Residuals were drawn from the tree growth responses and then compared to data obtained from the National Hurricane Center’s North Atlantic Hurricane Database (HURDAT), which comprised all storms that entered two buffer zones (100-km and 150-km) during the period 1894 to 1999. Low values in residuals of tree-ring growth (narrow rings) were determined to be less than –0.3 (very low growth) and –0.4 (extremely low growth). Twelve residuals displayed very low growth while seven residuals displayed extremely low growth. For the storms that occurred within the 100-km buffer, 6 of the 12 very narrow rings and 4 out of 7 extremely narrow rings occurred the year directly after a TC event. For the storms that occurred within the 150-km buffer, 8 of the 12 very narrow rings and 6 out of 7 extremely narrow rings occurred the year directly after a TC event. A superposed epoch analysis was also used and found a statistically significant relationship between hurricane events and extremely low growth years. The latter analysis further corroborated the negative response of tree-ring growth to hurricane disturbances. Additional research stemming from this study should include a strengthening of the disturbance signal by accounting for events that could also have affected tree growth, such as fire, insects, and human activity.