Books with author simpson-o-j

Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, ...

This teacher edition includes photocopy rights. Why do we call a number with a little exponent 2 next to it "squared?" What does a square root look like? To clarify such concepts, a picture is really worth a thousand words. In this case, the picture is the "SquareMaker," a graphic that makes the concepts comprehensible, visible, and establishes a sound basis for fluent recall and calculation. Students learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with squares, roots, and other exponents, and extend these concepts and skills to decimals, fractions, and negative exponents - all of which have pictures and graphics to make the concepts clear.