Sentences with phrase «formula value measure»

As I said above and have said repeatedly on this site, and in the book, it underperforms the market, and the Magic Formula value measure alone.

Not exact matches

The Magic Formula diverges from Graham's strategy by exchanging for Graham's absolute price and quality measures (i.e. price - to - earnings ratio below 10, and debt - to - equity ratio below 50 percent) a ranking system that seeks those stocks with the best combination of price and quality more akin to Buffett's value investing philosophy.

In addition, with increasing amounts of available carbohydrate in the food challenges, the calculated meal GI and GL values that were obtained on the basis of the published formula (21) were increased and were similar to the increased values in measured meal GI and GL values.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

States and districts should have been focusing on the real end goal — differentiating the best teachers from those who are merely satisfactory and those who continue to struggle — a task that would not have required complicated mathematical formulas designed to measure each teacher's «value - added» to student achievement.

Objectives covered: place value, including large numbers and decimals calculate mentally, using effective strategies use formal methods to solve multistep problems recognise the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and the equivalent quantities use simple formula to solve problems calculate with measures find missing angles

One of the more popular formulas to measure teacher effectiveness by state tests is called «value - added measure,» or VAM.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

What I did find very interesting, however, was an article about a set of «five Los Alamos physicists, statisticians and math experts» who responded to some of New Mexico's VAM critics who charged «it would take a rocket scientist to figure out the complex formula» being used to measure teacher's value - added.

To see how tough it has been for value investors, and the impact of the Magic Formula effect, I backtested the performance of four indexes against the value decile of each (measured by the enterprise multiple or EBITDA / enterprise value — overview of the research on the enterprise multiple here).

Insulation is measured in units of «R - value,» which is derived from a formula containing thickness, heat flux (the flow of heat), and the inside / outside temperature.

I don't think that anyone would use it in calculation of a steam cycle, that's done using steam tables that represent empirically measured values or parametrized formulas that agree with the steam tables (i have implemented years ago that approach in a small application used mainly for educational purposes as are certainly very many others).

Reliability estimates were calculated using the Wanous et al. (1997) adjustment of the correction for attenuation formula, with a value of 0.90 as the assumed true correlation between the measures.