Sentences with phrase «do a little math for»

A common recommendation is just not to worry about it until your portfolio is quite large, but I'll do a little math for you below.

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For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

He has a calendar and he can do the math, theres no excuse for him sneaking away to have a little spring fling with the wife when he should of been preoccupied with minicamp prep.

A kid gets frustrated during homework and is near tears trying to figure out a math problem... The little one doesn't like what's for dinner... The teenager is sulking...

Even with the upfront cost of getting started with cloth diapers, I did a little math, and found that they pay for themselves in the first 2 months!

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

My husband quickly got in the habit of giving me the biggest piece of meat every time he cooked, and doing «mama math» every time he calculated portions from a recipe (whatever it calls for, add a little extra, and make sure there's enough for one person's worth of seconds).

I know a little first grader who will love doing this for math facts practice this week!

In fact, more frequent use of the app (more than twice a week) did not result in any significant value added, suggesting that just a little bit of math interactions at home can go a long way for math - anxious families.

I am with you: do the sweater math ahead of time and you might get a little closer to the desired finish... but darn it, if casting on and just going for it aren't fun, too.

Hiding behind an «open - access mission» is no excuse for accepting young peoplewho are reading and doing math at a middle school level and have little or no chance of getting beyond remedial education, much less completing a bona fide postsecondary credential.

What isn't represented in that statistic, says doctoral student Maria Martiniello, is that — for English - language learners — success on the math section of a standardized test may have little to do with numbers and more to do with words.

«A math problem [containing that word] then becomes relatively more difficult for English - language learners, so performance on that item has little to do with their math knowledge.»

Taking money from sports to increase resources for math instruction might do little good for students who have dropped out or gone to jail.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»

If we do some back - of - the - envelope math and average the state's and the Ingersoll estimates together, it means that 85,000 current Illinois teachers will leave the profession in the next ten years with little retirement savings to show for their experience.

• For those who do graduate, their diploma has little meaning — almost 40 percent of our graduates end up in remedial math and English courses when they enter college.

As with Ferguson, St. Louis does little to provide black kids (or even white kids) with opportunities to take calculus and other math and science courses needed for success in higher education.

A little related publishing math: if the author commits to paying the publisher $ 8,000 for copies of the work at $ 16.00 apiece, how many additional books does the publisher have to sell to pay for its investment in the book?

We in fact did the math on the amount we are looking for and the monthly payments would be a little less than our current monthly mortgage payments.

But lets do a little math here: 3000 miles x $ 0.01 per mile = $ 30 = Free oil changes The reward money is a bonus on top and you can use it to buy a new or used car or pay for maintenance costs.

You'll need to do a little math, figuring out your net worth at the moment and the net worth for retirement that you're shooting for.

For some reason I hadn't considered using the Norbert Gambit on my contributions (for some reason I had it in my head that it only makes sense when converting several thousands of dollars at once, but doing some quick math, it may make sense for sums as little as $ 1,00For some reason I hadn't considered using the Norbert Gambit on my contributions (for some reason I had it in my head that it only makes sense when converting several thousands of dollars at once, but doing some quick math, it may make sense for sums as little as $ 1,00for some reason I had it in my head that it only makes sense when converting several thousands of dollars at once, but doing some quick math, it may make sense for sums as little as $ 1,00for sums as little as $ 1,000).

There is no interview, so you have to know what you're doing; it does a little bit of the math for you.

We'll send you an actual photo postcard of all the rewards you could have had if you just pledged a little more... hey for another $ 50 you could get the poster or t - shirt, sorry, but this crap's expensive to print and ship (we did the math) and we want to use as much as possible to make the actual game.

Colin Gleadell did a little math on last week's Contemporary art sales and discovered that Gerhard Richter's work accounted for nearly 20 % of the trading volume.

Doing a little quick math (and triple - checking myself using two different calculators), our 1,500 - hour associate comes out with 88 percent of the 1,900 - hour associate's salary for doing 79 percent of the «work.&rDoing a little quick math (and triple - checking myself using two different calculators), our 1,500 - hour associate comes out with 88 percent of the 1,900 - hour associate's salary for doing 79 percent of the «work.&rdoing 79 percent of the «work.»

You're probably already doing the math in your head to realize if you had this same level of results you would pay for this program with as little as just one client.

It will crash and burn at some point, that is not pessimism, just math and a little Darwinian logic, but until it does and so long as real estate colleges, our industry associations and Brokerages primary focus is on reaping the spoils of a growing membership and ever increasing fees, they will continue to look the other way for the most part.