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Author | : Christina Gabriel |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2024-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0774870192 |
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Counting Matters examines the ways in which the rise of gender equality measurement contributes to, but falls short of, effective gender equality policy implementation. As technocrats adopt often contextless indices, questions of the theoretical and practical limitations of measurement arise, especially as they pertain to social and cultural relations. The indicators being produced influence the allocation of resources as political decisions but are themselves part of a power regime based on the collection and analysis of data, a regime that obfuscates biases and the agendas behind the statistics. The book’s contributors pose critical questions of the ways in which measurement culture manifests within the field of gender equality, asking how it is measured in different policy areas, how we might improve existing practices, and what is revealed through the examination and critique of the “technical turn” in policies that purport to promote gender equality.
Author | : Deborah Stone |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1631495933 |
Download Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Required reading for anyone who’s interested in the truth.” —Robert Reich In a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near–civil war about election results, Deborah Stone’s Counting promises to transform how we think about numbers. Contrary to what you learned in kindergarten, counting is more art than arithmetic. In fact, numbers are just as much creatures of the human imagination as poetry and painting; the simplest tally starts with judgments about what counts. In a nation whose Constitution originally counted a slave as three-fifths of a person and where algorithms disproportionately consign Black Americans to prison, it is now more important than ever to understand how numbers can be both weapons of the powerful and tools of resistance. With her “signature brilliance” (Robert Kuttner), eminent political scientist Deborah Stone delivers a “mild-altering” work (Jacob Hacker) that shows “how being in thrall to numbers is misguided and dangerous” (New York Times Book Review).
Author | : Mari Schuh |
Publisher | : Bellwether Media |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1681030578 |
Download Counting Money Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How many pennies go into a quarter? How many quarters make up a dollar? Math skills go a long way when trying to count money. Learn how math and money go together in this title for young counters.
Author | : Richard Evan Schwartz |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1470422093 |
Download You Can Count on Monsters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a unique teaching tool that takes math lovers on a journey designed to motivate kids (and kids at heart) to learn the fun of factoring and prime numbers. This volume visually explores the concepts of factoring and the role of prime and composite numbers. The playful and colorful monsters are designed to give children (and even older audiences) an intuitive understanding of the building blocks of numbers and the basics of multiplication. The introduction and appendices can also help adult readers answer questions about factoring from their young audience. The artwork is crisp and creative and the colors are bright and engaging, making this volume a welcome deviation from standard math texts. Any person, regardless of age, can profit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, continually learning from and getting to know the monsters as their knowledge expands. You Can Count on Monsters is a magnificent addition for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the visually fascinating world of the numbers 1 through 100.
Author | : Chip Heath |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1982165456 |
Download Making Numbers Count Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Author | : Anna Kovecses |
Publisher | : Wide Eyed Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781786030368 |
Download Counting Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Learn to count to ten with Little Mouse! This cute board book features a large lift-flap on every page, making learning to count easy and fun! With stylish retro-modern illustrations this is the perfect introduction to counting for young children.
Author | : Rod Clement |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1990-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836803587 |
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A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.
Author | : Selina Alko |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781250163813 |
Download One Golden Rule at School Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Award-winning creator Selina Alko's One Golden Rule at School is a charming story that's two books in one—a counting book and a school primer for little ones. Young children experience a day of preschool, beginning with morning meeting, story time, and art projects, then on to outside play, puzzles, and snack and nap time, ending with a heartwarming golden rule. Set against the familiar and dynamic backdrop of a daily school adventure, this vibrant counting book showcases a diverse and inclusive classroom of learners. The text counters from one to ten and back again while the back matter counts higher to twenty. Christy Ottaviano Books
Author | : Rozanne Lanczak Williams |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2010-07-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 160734176X |
Download The Coin Counting Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Twenty-five pennies, four dimes, two nickels, and one quarter… hmm… A pocketful of coins! Who can make heads or tails of it? YOU can with THE COIN COUNTING BOOK. Change just adds up with this bankable book illustrated with real money. Counting, adding, and identifying American currency from one penny to one dollar is exciting and easy. When you have counted all your money, you can decide to save it or spend it.
Author | : Allan Craig |
Publisher | : Branden Books |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780828315852 |
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