Sentences with phrase «by math rules»

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Currently, some students effectively rule themselves out of an engineering career by not studying maths and science.

I had by then ruled out a career in math, and my teacher did little to explain the pertinence of limits and derivatives in my life beyond that I may fail another test.

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about a state court ruling overturning a decision by the Seattle school board to adopt a progressive math curriculum.

The common conception is that math is rule - oriented knowledge, static, and a difficult subject only mastered by a few.

The study, by Jo Boaler, now a professor of education at Stanford University, found that students at the project - based school did better than those at the more traditional school both on math problems requiring analytical or conceptual thought and on those considered rote, that is, those requiring memory of a rule or formula.

Japanese students «uncover math's procedures, properties and proofs for themselves;» American students regurgitate rules spoon fed to them by teachers.

The superintendent's HR office does most of the vetting and placing, but it is shackled by the contract, by state licensure practices (which may be set by an «independent» — and probably union and ed - school dominated — professional - standards board), by seniority rules that are probably enshrined in both contract and state law, and by uniform salary schedules that mean the new teacher (assuming similar «credentials») will be paid the same fixed amount whether the subject most needed at Lincoln is math or music.

Harkin told HuffPost that he is «hopeful» the bill will become law before implementation of waivers allowing states to forego certain No Child Left Behind rules, such as those requiring all students to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

New rules covering the way special needs pupils are assessed will mean some schools «play it safe» by not teaching children English and maths while other schools do, experts have warned.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

These are the children who read voraciously (often nonfiction) before entering kindergarten, who turn everyday experiences into math challenges to solve, or who induce by themselves the rules of algebra or phonics.

The math of the 4 % rule may be perfectly sound, but living the 4 % rule is assuredly different than advising others to live by it.

Doing the math, withdrawing the lump sum is by far optimal (equates to getting a zero rate of return for 30 years I think — and not getting diddled by the legislature if they change pension rules / calcs).

However, the judge (a clear exception to the rule that legal minds can't do math) pointed out that «this ignores the fact that, in their personal capacity as estate beneficiaries, Howard and Jeanette would be entitled in due course to a portion of any funds returned by them to the estate, whereas a charge for the same amount against their inheritance would deprive them unfairly of that benefit.»

I can not learn to love myself by applying someone else's marriage rule any more than I can learn math by using someone else's calculator.