What does it mean when a textbook says it is a "California" edition, or a "Florida" edition? I was looking on ebay and noticed a textbook that the details said: You are bidding on a BRAND NEW MACMILLAN MCGRAW-HILL SCIENCE 1ST GRADE HARDCOVER TEXTBOOK (2008)CALIFORNIA EDITION!!!! Please help me, I don't understand. Thank you. :love:
I called McGraw-Hill a while back because I was curious also. Basically they said that when it shows a state on the textbook it's because that specific state wanted specific information to be included in the book. I hope that helps.
yep, and from what I hear its not any smarter or dumber, though I would wonder with Cal school at lower than standard, but thats just me, but there are sometimes stuff in it that other states may not want tot each?
California addition? Hmmm.... Maybe that means there's no mention of "mother", "father", or other "gender-specific" term, as that's now not permitted in California schools...?
lol and a few other things that we teach in our schools here, that I really dont think they do out in the midwest! Lol
In one ofour books that we got from the local thrift stores, the ones marked "Texas eddition" have Texas specific examples to make their points... For example, the social studies book, makes an example of a class in Galveston. And then Talks about how taxes go to help pay for things like the upkeep of monuments like the battleship texas or something. It is kind of like when Singaore math made a US eddition... it simply meant that they changed things like dollars and inches in their measurements and stuff so that our kids would get it.
