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STOCKHOLM, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Shortage of teachers in mathematics in upper secondary and compulsory schools continued this year in Sweden, said the Swedish Central Statistics Bureau (SCB) on Monday. The situation of supply would be worse in ...
2013-12-09 09:29:00
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We have computers and calculators for that. However ... Boaler points out that 60 percent of the 13 million two-year college students in the U.S. are currently placed into remedial math courses and that 75 percent of them fail or drop the ...
2013-12-09 08:41:00
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Random people I meet, who usually tell me how much they hate math when I tell them what I do. Mathematics is the language of the cosmos, and the basic human thirst for knowledge led to the discovery of its beauty and connectedness to everything ...
2013-12-09 11:24:00
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Stockholm, Dec 10 (IANS) Shortage of teachers in mathematics in upper secondary and compulsory schools continued this year in Sweden, authorities said Monday. The situation of supply was worse in recent years, Xinhua cited from a Labour Market Tendency Survey conducted by Swedish Central Statistics Bureau (SCB) for 2013. Figures also showed that employers in Sweden still had difficulty in ...
2013-12-09 10:18:06
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QEII High School has had an insight into the quality of future maths students who will be starting secondary school next September – and the prospects are looking good. A new initiative – the Mathematics Olympiad – sponsored by Nationwide ...
2013-12-09 02:02:00
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a math teacher in Alaska. “We have a ‘math’ teacher right now who majored in HISTORY. How do you get people who major in mathematics to go into teaching? The job is often thankless and quite stressful. Plus, other people are always telling ...
2013-12-09 08:18:00
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In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, authors Sean McGinty, Sean McKee, Roger Wadsworth, and Christopher McCormick devise a mathematical model to improve currently-employed treatments of coronary heart disease (CHD).
2013-12-09 05:10:00
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Jun-ichi Igusa, a retired Johns Hopkins university professor of mathematics who researched number theory and algebraic geometry, died of a stroke Nov. 24 at the Holly Hill Nursing Home. The Hunt Valley resident was 89. "He was a giant in his ...
2013-12-09 08:18:00
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Philip Kutzko, professor of mathematics at the University of Iowa, is receiving the 2014 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Award for Distinguished Public Service. Presented every two years by the American Mathematical Society, the award is given to a ...
2013-12-09 06:50:00
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STUDENTS struggling with Mathematics may benefit from early interventions aimed at improving mathematical ability and skills. Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) researcher Wan Norliza Wan Bakar said the Intensive Learning Kit for MAT037 (Intensive Mathematics) will help students self-visualise critical topics such as equation, inequality, algebra and polynomial, exponential and logarithm. "This ...
2013-12-09 09:47:20
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It’s early December, and time for me to take stock of the past year. Classes at Dalhousie are winding up. A whole semester of learning has gone by, and I sadly reflect that for many of the undergraduates in my classes, this may be their last brush with ...
2013-12-06 08:22:00
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AN awesome foursome of Darlington college students will fly the flag for the North East in a national mathematics competition.
2013-12-09 08:09:08
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