Books with author Val Collins

Students can quickly get to grips with problem solving and reasoning by completing activities categorised by topic and question type. Fully in line with the Cambridge Primary Mathematics Curriculum.Problem solving and reasoning are focuses in the Cambridge Primary Mathematics Curriculum. It is essential that all students have access to problem solving and reasoning activities. Some key benefits to problem solving in maths include:• Helping pupils grasp diverse mathematical concepts and understand the application of the subject• Enhancing strategic thinking• Developing transferable skillsThis book consists of three different types of mathematical problem solving challenges:1.Solving mathematical problems. This involves pupils solving problems ‘within’ mathematics itself, recognising patterns and relationships, making conjectures and generalisations, and explaining and justifying conclusions.2.Reasoning mathematically. This involved pupils using logical thinking to solve problems, focusing on making conjectures and generalisations, and explaining and justifying conclusions using appropriate language.3.Using & applying mathematics in real-world contexts. This involves pupils engaging in challenges that require them to use and apply their mathematical knowledge and skills in open-ended, real-world contexts.

Collins French Dictionary & Grammar is an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy volume. Colour headwords, cultural notes and an easy-to-use grammar section make this the ideal book for intermediate learners. Collins French Dictionary & Grammar is designed for all intermediate learners of French, whether at school, at home, or for business. 96,000 references and 136,000 translations will help those learning French take their language skills to the next level. * This edition of Collins French Dictionary & Grammar has been revised and updated to offer extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and French, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation. * A comprehensive grammar guide presents detailed examples and translations to help users to understand French grammar - the perfect complement to the dictionary. * The clear Collins typography gives the text a contemporary feel, and along with the new alphabet tabs, ensures that users find the information they need quickly and easily. Log on to www.collinslanguage.com and access our free online French dictionary. Some of the other titles available in the Collins French dictionary range are Collins Gem French Dictionary, Collins Pocket French Dictionary, and Collins Concise French Dictionary - giving users all the help they need.

Full teacher support to accompany the Cambridge IGCSE® Design and Technology Student Book for syllabus 0445. These resources will enable teachers to use a structured approach to delivering the course, but will also allow them enough flexibility to teach in their own way, in the best way possible for their classroom context.• Comprehensive coverage for syllabus 0445• Fully supports the approach of the Student Book, using scenarios and skills-building to link together the theory and practical parts of the syllabus• Lesson plans and activities that are suitable for a range of international classroom environments, along with activity sheets for every topic in the Student Book• Includes answers to every activity and question in the Student Book• Guidance on setting up and running practical project work in the classroom• Support in how to prepare the students and guide them through their work on the final project• Accompanied by additional material for students and teachers online at Collins Connect, including the full Student Book online, interactive quizzes and activity sheets• Written by highly experienced teachers of Design and Technology from around the world• Guidance on how this resource can be used to teach 7048 O Level CDT: Design and Communication, and 6043 O Level Design and Technology• This text has not been through the Cambridge endorsement process.

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE ChemistryFirst teaching: September 2016 First exams: June 2018Left your GCSE Chemistry revision to the last minute? Don’t panic! Revise and prepare for your exam in just one week using this effective, concise and manageable revision guide.• A revision planner that breaks all the essential topics down into a manageable 7-day programme• Concise explanations ensure topics can easily be covered in no more than 45 minutes• Summary boxes provide a final recap of the key points• Quick test questions to check recall and understanding• GCSE-style questions for GCSE Chemistry exam preparation

If Collins Quiz Night wasn’t enough to quench your thirst for quiz trivia, this book offers more than 200 brand new quizzes to meet all of your pub quiz needs!Q: What’s inside this book?A: More than 200 brand new quizzes covering everything from pop stars to death stars. The rounds are a mixture of themed and potluck and the questions go from friendly teasers to ones that will scramble even an egghead’s brains.Q: Who is it for?A: You, your mum, your dad, your family and friends, the man down the road and two halves of the crowd at your local. Each quiz provides good clean fun for all. The answers are quick and easy to find so that anyone can pick this up and become a quiz master.

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE BiologyFirst teaching: September 2016 First exams: June 2018Left your GCSE Biology revision to the last minute? Don’t panic! Revise and prepare for your exam in just one week using this effective, concise and manageable revision guide.• A revision planner that breaks all the essential topics down into a manageable 7-day programme• Concise explanations ensure topics can easily be covered in no more than 45 minutes• Summary boxes provide a final recap of the key points• Quick test questions to check recall and understanding• GCSE-style questions for GCSE Biology exam preparation

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE Maths HigherFirst teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017Need more exam practice? Letts will get you through.• Have a go at 2 complete tests• Questions just like the real thing• All the answers at the backNeed more exam practice? Letts will get you through.•Have a go at 2 complete tests•Questions just like the real thing•All the answers at the back

Your essential companion to the times spelling bee! a comprehensive guide to spelling, this is an invaluable reference source for all those preparing for the times spelling bee competition. This essential guide to spelling includes spelling rules, strategies for better spelling, hints and tips on better spelling and a wide range of word puzzles. It helps students to understand and learn the roots of english words, and how to use this knowledge to spell better. It also gives information on how to get involved with the times spelling bee competition. Written in a light-hearted and accessible style, with word games throughout, this is a fun way to improve spelling and to prepare for a spelling bee competition.

Rayon the dust bunny and a vacuum abhorred.An appliance fiction novelEverybody’s house has secret inhabitants. Yours has dust bunnies. And they’re in trouble.When Rayon the bright blue dust bunny detaches from a young lad’s winter hat, his arrival in the squalor on the bedroom floor doesn’t go unnoticed. He’s been seen and Knickers, another dust bunny made mostly of underwear fibres has been sent to get him out of sight. Knicker’s been sent by the dust bunnies under the bed, the Biddies, to get that very obvious blue dust bunny out of sight before someone feels compelled to get a vacuum cleaner out and inhale all of them up.But Knickers is too late. Rayon’s lurid blueness catches the eye of The Mum. She orders her son to tidy up and the central vacuum system is unleashed from its lair. It sucks up dust bunnies mercilessly, even plucking apart the dust bunny called Pure thread by thread. Just before she’s disentangled completely, Pure’s last words are that Yarn, Yarn can help them all. After swallowing Pure, the ailing vacuum cleaner chokes and whines to a stop and the repairman is summoned.Rayon, Knickers and their companions, Stour and Twill use this opportunity to find Yarn - and to warn the other dust bunny tribes around the house about the impending clean up that will be unleashed after the repairman comes in a couple of days.After making their way to the basement, the laundry drier exhaust carries Rayon, Knickers, Twill, Ouse and now a clutch of simple-minded drier lint called the fuzzballs, up to the attic where they find the densely woven Yarn, the oldest dust bunny in the house. Yarn though tells them to do nothing; entropy is on their side. Dust, Yarn assures them, will prevail.But entropy won’t stop the repairman coming so Rayon, Knickers, Stour, Twill and a clutch of fluffy-brained fuzzballs have only forty eight hours so use the forces of entropy and entanglement in a bid to save Rayon and the dust bunnies from certain inhalation.Rayon the dust bunny and a vacuum abhorred is a novel for trainee adults and fully fledged grown-ups with a taste for a domestic fantasia and like a twist to their stories.

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?" Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.