Sentences with phrase «backed by math»

That said, good to see the emphasis on social agreement rather than «backed by math»; I think that's philosophically the right step forward.

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A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark..

I believe this worldview is backed up by a free and without prior prejudiced view of science, math, archaeology, philosophy, and logistics.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Arc.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships larger than the D - Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the ark.

The Cuomo administration fired back at the claims being made by the state Senate Republicans that the $ 152 billion budget proposal contains $ 803 million in new surcharges, accusing the conference of practicing «fuzzy math.»

Recently the Speakers» wife Sally Bercow was widely criticised for apparent contempt and may face a hefty fine for naming a schoolgirl who was abducted by her maths teacher Jeremy Forrest back in the summer.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

He was a chemistry professor who gave back to the community by offering local students the ability to apply their math aptitude in the lab.

Back when I was a classroom teacher, my principal — to whom I rarely spoke — came by one day to tell me that one of my math students had gotten the highest score in the school on a standardized math test.

The call by some educators and policymakers for a back - to - basics approach to math and science to improve student achievement is based on a false assumption that curriculum and instruction have strayed from traditional roots, a new report argues.

According to an analysis by Eric Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann and Paul Peterson, Indiana was toward the back of the pack when it came to test score gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, math, and science from the early 1990s until today.

It tells the story of a seven - year - old math prodigy being raised by her laid - back uncle.

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.

On the symbolic math side, which relies heavily on phonological processing and other linguistic brain functions, we can mitigate math's trickiness by increasing verbal math activities — especially ones that link back to visual - spatial tasks.

Unlike state tests, which have been shifting year by year with the adoption of the Common Core, NAEP scores are comparable across decades — back to 2005 for math and all the way back to 1993 for reading.

But by devoting regular instructional time to reviewing and remediating past material, and by altering the ways that the new material is presented so that it's more approachable for struggling students, we can increase the chances that these students will gradually find a more stable foothold in math and begin the difficult climb back to full understanding.

Back in 2009 and 2010, when the Common Core was adopted by a host of states ready to promise pretty much anything in exchange for Race to the Top funds, it was fueled by twin promises: It would «raise standards» and it would make it easier to compare how schools and states were faring in reading and math.

Fong's data analysis doesn't explain why the higher performing students do worse the second time around, but he suspects that these students were demoralized by being held back in math and lost their motivation.

As such, by setting up the Level 6 Mathematics Programme, the school was able to give something back to the local community, raising the attainment of talented young pupils from a variety of backgrounds by enlisting the help of specialist maths teachers, whilst simultaneously raising the profile of the school.

The emphasis on school attendance is backed by research by Robert Balfanz, one of the nation's leading dropout experts, who found that three - quarters of all dropouts can be identified as early as sixth grade due to poor attendance, poor behavior or failure in English or math.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

Back to Basics is a sample Health Science lesson created by a CTE and math teacher team from Missouri.

The authors relied on work by researcher Finley Edwards, who showed that if a middle school in Wake County, North Carolina, pushed its start time back an hour, the school would see a 2 percentile growth in math scores.

The reason the document can't be used as a menu for zone schools is because when zone schools are opting out of a service such as elementary math curriculum, the district divides the cost by the number of elementary students — not all district students — and gives that money back to the zone schools, said Mark Ferrandino, the district's chief financial officer.

, bodes well for finally introducing a well - grounded maths curriculum here, provided it is not strangled at birth by a continuing Govian / Gibbian «back to the 1950s public school» agenda.

Earlier this year rankings devised by the Government - backed campaign Your Choice, include Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form in the Top 50 schools nationally for science, technology, engineering, and maths - outstripping famous names like Eton and Harrow.

For years, critics of test - based school accountability have pointed out that when schools face pressure to raise students» scores in math and reading, they tend to respond by doubling down on those two subject areas and cutting back on the teaching of history, art, music, civics, and more.

Next, I instruct students to cut their pizzas into 10/12 slices along the lines, and write their names on the back of each slice (during this math program, one of these slices will fall on the floor, and by having the names written on the back of each slice, you will know whose slice of pizza this piece is).

Many policymakers have been backing off the aggressive NCLB mandate that 100 percent of students nationwide be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

Critics said the integrated course is the future of math, one backed by business leaders, but Sen. Jerry Tillman, R - Moore, Randolph, said the combined courses were problematic for some parents and students.

Another, Sally - Anne Haynes, hit out: «Your irresponsible «Back to School» TV ad, with its negative stereotyping of mathematics teaching, is undermining years of hard work by maths teachers.»

Baltimore County schools made slight improvements in both reading and math at most grade levels measured by the MSA, taking steps back only in sixth - grade reading and eighth - grade math.

By doing a lot of math and watching carefully what goes on in particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10 - 43 seconds after the moment of creation, when the universe was still so small that you would have needed a microscope to find it.

For those of you feeling swayed by gas stations offering you 5 cents back on every gallon, we have a tiny bit of math for you.

This has been proven to be the best at getting people to actually stick with paying back their loans not by using math, but by modifying your behavior.

Backed up by charts and some pretty convincing math, he continues to debate how best to calculate your safe withdrawal rate in retirement.

Located at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge on the Sausalito side, the Bay Area Discovery Museum prides itself on its scientific credentials, with its STEM exhibits (science, technology, engineering, and math) that are «inquiry - driven» and backed by research.

Those who do the math will often find that you can get more by using a broader rewards card that allows for cash back, which you can put toward a lower - priced cruise found on Cruise Critic or a pocketful of extra cash to use on the trip.

Located at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge on the Sausalito side, the Bay Area Discovery Museum prides itself on its scientific credentials, with its STEM exhibits (science, technology, engineering, and maths) that are «inquiry - driven» and backed by research.

I AM DISTRIBUTED: AT THE FRONTIERS OF THE BLOCKCHAIN DISCUSSION Theorist Jaya Klara Brekke and Architect and Musician Martti Kalliala, Hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers The blockchain is a database validated by a global community, and backed by code / math, rather than a central authority.

You responded by admitting that you didn't understand the maths and physics involved, but you refused to back down from your original claim.

To be honest Vaughan, I'm very disappointed that the elegance of what I'm doing is so lost on smart people like yourself, the code is available, a huge number of backing data reports are available, and the actual math could be done by a grade school student.

I think if we do the math and re-associate the terms, you end up back with the mean standard error from the average of 62 terms (31 maxes and 31 mins separated by something like 18 deg F) each with an uncertainty of 0.3 to 0.4 deg C. You'll wind up with a mean standard error of 0.6 to 0.7 deg C of the monthly average.

Guest essay by Caleb Shaw I once had a very good science teacher who I fear I made wild, not so much by causing small explosions in the back of his classroom, (which I think he secretly approved of,) as with my failures in math.

Quick back of the napkin math shows that the tournament saved about $ 20,000 by paying their normal electricity rate for wind power.

Litecoin is also open source, decentralized, and backed by cryptographic math to keep funds and transactions secure and private.

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Laudan turned to the real estate business six years ago, attracted both for practical reasons (in Canada there's «not much» financial security in being a feature filmmaker, he points out) as well as by fond memories of his mother becoming a real estate agent back when he was a teenage math whiz finishing high school in Vancouver, where he grew up.