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Your teachers were right: Learn a little every day and end up much smarter. The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics (Adams Media) by Hallie Ephron is a "tasting menu" of savory book summaries, topped with yummy first lines or ...
2009-11-07 02:33:00
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In my previous two columns, It Ain't No Repeated Addition and It's Still Not Repeated Addition , I explained why I (and many others who are far more knowledgeable about K-8 mathematics education than I) think it is bad to teach multiplication as ...
2009-11-07 06:01:00
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This is an exciting and challenging time to be taking on the presidency of the MAA, six year shy of its centennial. The economic situation is difficult. Those of us in academia find our colleges and universities squeezed from many directions. Public ...
2009-11-07 04:35:00
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... information, accordingly, developed skills ... study period on national assessments in Arabic and English. Independent school students assessed in Arabic also outperformed education ministry students in mathematics and science. At the same time ...
2009-11-07 02:40:00
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He has written and lectured widely on topics as diverse as the links between mathematics and music, the divide between science and religion, critical thinking, great historical cities as centers of culture, and twentieth-century art history.
2009-11-06 10:15:00
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DOHA: Independent Schools have a definite edge over the schools that were functioning under the Ministry of Education until recently, in Qatar. Teachers in the Independent Schools are more focused on meeting the learning needs of individual students ...
2009-11-06 08:07:00
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Born and raised just 30 minutes from Daytona Beach, Florida, MikeJones has always been a sports fanatic. While he's only played one actual "regular sport" (lacrosse from 7th grade all through high school and now in post-high school leagues), he has ...
2009-11-06 09:11:00
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Data bank watches are capable of holding several pages of mathematics formulae not provided in the mathematics table, accounting formulas or chemistry equations to aid a student in the exams. Some students are also using tiny wireless earphones to ...
2009-11-06 07:52:00
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You have a burning thought on the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function or a hankering to work on Yang-Mills theory. Or maybe an irrepressible inkling about quadratic residues is on your mind. Professional mathematicians and the passionate amateur now ...
2009-11-06 11:56:00
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Mathnasium Learning Center, an international franchise offering after-school mathematics programs, has opened in the Belden Village area. The new center is focused on helping students develop math skills and to build confidence in their math-related ...
2009-11-06 10:51:00
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At one point in his life, John Herrington admits, he was an underachiever. His grade point average was 1.72, and his only passion in life was rock climbing near his Colorado home. “I didn’t study,” he said. “If you don’t study you don’t ...
2009-11-06 11:13:00
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It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to solve one of the century's hardest problems—the Poincaré Conjecture—it was a Russian mathematician working in Russia who, early in this decade, finally ...
2009-11-06 09:54:00
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