The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok—a mere five months before he was killed. Although b
As a very young man Mersman came to the Midwest from Germany with the hope of becoming successful in business. His first venture was as a whiskey rectifier in Cincinnati, purifying distilled spirits a
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Rich tasks, collaborative work, number talks, problem-based learning, direct instruction…with so many possible approaches, how do we know which ones work the best? In Visible Learning for Math, s
