{"id":1294,"date":"2012-09-13T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:20:45","slug":"mlcs-math-literacy-textbook-almy-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"MLCS &#8212; Math Literacy Textbook (Almy &#038; Foes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the New Life work in 2009, the most common question has normally been &#8220;so, this is cool stuff &#8230; what textbook can I use?&#8221;\u00a0 I have talked here about the general interest among publishers, who are interested in developing books for the New Life courses (MLCS and Transitions).<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to give a shout-out to Kathy Almy and Heather Foes, who are getting very close to having the first MLCS book published (by Pearson).\u00a0 Kathy &amp; Heather have worked incredibly hard to develop a textbook, one that combines the content of MLCS with a design that makes learning accessible for students and teaching easier for faculty (especially adjuncts).<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kathy shared an image of the cover for their text, which is at <a href=\"http:\/\/almydoesmath.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/mlcs-book-preliminary-cover.html\">http:\/\/almydoesmath.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/mlcs-book-preliminary-cover.html<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\n[The final bound text might have a slightly different cover.]<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to KathyAlmy, Heather Foes, and the folks at Pearson for getting the first MLCS book ready to publish.<\/p>\n<p>[This is not a paid endorsement; however, my college will be using this Math Lit textbook for our new Mathematical Literacy course next semester.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Join Dev Math Revival on Facebook:<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/pages\/DevMathRevival\/201095716578610\" show_faces=\"true\" width=\"450\" font=\"\"><\/fb:like><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the New Life work in 2009, the most common question has normally been &#8220;so, this is cool stuff &#8230; what textbook can I use?&#8221;\u00a0 I have talked here about the general interest among publishers, who are interested in developing books for the New Life courses (MLCS and Transitions). I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qjjK-kS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}