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Math for Engaged Learning: Business Mathematics Second Edition is intended to cater to the needs of Senior High School students following the standards set by DepEd as indicated in the K to 12 curriculum guide. Emphasis is given on the mathematical skills and performance task or project-based activities. This book covers the following: a review of the fundamental mathematics operations using decimals, fractions, percent, ratio and proportion; mathematics concepts and skills in buying and selling, computing gross and net earnings, overtime and bussiness data presentation, analysis and interpretation.

Math Connections in the Digital Age: Business Mathematics (ABM) maintains a simplistic approach to its lesson presentation that promotes self-directed learning among students. It provides an understanding and promotes an appreciation of the basic concepts of mathematics as applied in business contexts. It includes a review of the fundamental mathematics operations using decimals, fractions, percent, ratio, and proportion; mathematics concepts and skills in buying and selling, computing gross and net earnings, overtime and business data presentation, analysis and interpretation.

Social Sciences in a Globalizing World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Filipino Students employs the different perspectives of the social sciences and discusses basic concepts, subjects, and methods of inquiry in order for us to go beyond our individual circumstances and seek other forms of knowing to arrive at a more scientific view of the complex and patterned operations of society and culture. It intends to defamiliariaze the familiar. It demonstrates how human social and cultural life is far more complex than what common sense tells us. It challenges commonly held beliefs that we often take as true because we are accustomed to experiencing them on a daily basis. By following the K to 12 basic education curriculum guide and using the Understanding by Design framework, this textbook equips the Filipino youth with skills in the social sciences, aiming to develop in the students these three qualities: empirically-driven, reflexive, and critical. In this book, the ideas and theories forwarded by influential thinkers are also contextualized to Philippine social realities in order for students to be able to use these in analyzing their own situation. The textbook also comes with a detailed learning guide with curriculum map.

Narratives In and Of the Mind: Approaches to Creative Nonfiction with Exercises complies with DepEd’s call to view the study of creative nonfiction as a means to learn the utilitarian skills of writing, reading, and communication. Incorporated with these skills are lessons in critical thinking in the form of understanding definitions and recognizing their enactments through reading and writing. The textbook also helps train the students to write polished versions of their piece of literary reportage, write a personal or a travel narrative, produce an exegesis essay which serves as a reflection paper on the genre and their understanding of it. More importantly, the textbook challenges them to view writing within this genre as not just a means to a communicative end, rather an activity that is fully engaging. The textbook comes with Teachers Wraparound Edition, the new learning guide format of the House. It also contains a detailed curriculum map.

Malikhaing Pagsulat —Inihanda ang aklat upang malinang ang kasanayang praktikal at malikhain sa pagbasa at pagsulat; ipaunawa at talakayin ang mga pundamental na teknik sa pagsulat ng maikling kuwento, tula, at dula na ginamit ng mga kilalang manunulat ng nabanggit na mga anyo. Tulungan ang mga mag-aaral sa matalas na pagsusuri sa mga teknik sa pagsulat ng iba’t ibang anyo ng sulating pampanitikan. Matutuhan ng mga mag-aaral ang pagsasanib ng inspirasyon at rebisyon at ang malalim na pagkaunawa sa mga anyo ng panitikan.

Fine Lines: Writing Poetry, Fiction, and Drama combines the academic rigor of a literature classroom with the process-oriented bent of a creative writing set-up. It aims to give the students enough grounding in terms of sample texts and discussion points for them to be aware of the various formal structures that characterize various literary genres, alongside a look into the more intricate issues confronted by writers during the creative process. Thus, the textbook hopes to utilize and channel the knowledge acquired by the students in previous literature classes, the expected range of topics and learning competencies outlined by the K to 12 Curriculum of the Department of Education, and the skills needed by the individual practicing in earnest creative writing. The textbook comes with Teachers Wraparound Edition, the new learning guide format of the House. It also contains a detailed curriculum map.

Global Times Living History: Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics The subject–using the insights of anthropology, sociology and political science–aims to provide the students an understanding of how culture, society, and politics affect a country’s current human development goals. In the course of the study the students shall develop awareness of cultural, social, and political dynamics; sensitivity to cultural diversity; social inclusiveness; prejudices and exclusions; as well as the required social and cultural competence to guide interactions with groups, communities, networks, and institutions in the realization of national development goals. Help the students understand what factors make for an effective country development plan; Critique development plans given the country’s varied ethnicities (culture), social classes (rich, middle, poor), genders, (men, women, lesbians, transgenders), religious affiliations (Christian, Muslim, indigenous belief systems), education (literate, illiterate); Understand how these divisions would require openness to differences, an ability to understand and appreciate cultural, social, and political variations and prejudices through insights on culture, society, and politics gained from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, and political science; help put in place a national development plan that is responsive to the needs of the population given the complexity of the problems at hand.

Global Times Living History: Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person is a theoretical, academic, and practical book on what it means to be a human person. It looks at the human being from birth to death and at various stages and moods. This book approaches the human person from Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Literature, Religion, etc. This book looks at how a human being can shape society and how society and culture can shape a human person. This book presents the human person’s impact on his environment and how an understanding of his relationship with the environment shape the understanding of who we are as human beings. Through the Study Helps, the students can independently either individually or in groups recall, express, create, and be enriched