Company:Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe

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Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
Typegeneral partnership
IndustryPublishing house
HeadquartersAleja Grunwaldzka 413, 80-309,
Gdansk
,
Area served
Poland
Key people
Małgorzata Dobrowolska (CEO)
Marcin Karpiński, Jacek Lech, Tomasz Małkowski, Agnieszka Łuczak
Productstextbooks, multimedia, e-books
Websitehttp://www.gwo.pl

Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe Publishing House (GWO) is one of the first privately owned educational publishing houses in Poland. The publishing house prints textbooks for mathematics, Polish, history, physics, biology, and art.

History

Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe was founded in 1991. Then, the book series Matematyka z plusem was created for students in elementary school, along with the "zeszyty gdańskie" and Kalendarz ósmoklasisty.[1]

Products

Nowadays, apart from math textbook series entitled Matematyka z plusem, GWO prints books for Polish (Między nami being for elementary school and Sztuka wyrazu being for high school),[2] history (Podróże w czasie being for elementary students, and Ślady czasu being for high schools),[3] physics (Fizyka z plusem and To nasz świat. Fizyka for elementary school),[4] biology (To nasz świat. Biologia for elementary school,[5] Biologia z tangramem for high school[6]), art (Lokomotywa. Plastyka for early elementary school[7]), and a number of supporting books designed for teachers.

Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe has also launched a series of online projects including online courses (Matematura.pl, Matlandia, Gimplus), interactive historical maps (History of Poland and the Roman Empire), as well as online applications for teachers (Test Composer). Moreover, GWO offers selected textbooks, tests, teacher support materials, and magazines as e-books.

Educational projects

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