Sentences with phrase «enough at maths»

But I'd always enjoyed science and how things work, and I was good enough at maths and physics to give engineering a go.

Also, this is a reminder that I wasn't good enough at math to be a doctor, so don't take anything on this blog post as medical advice, and instead, see a licensed and qualified medical professional.

«Most people are good enough at math to understand that taxes will likely be higher in the future than they are today,» says David Hays, president and founder of Comprehensive Financial Consultants in Bloomington, Indiana.

Not exact matches

But it is reasonable to believe that an agnostic or atheist on this commentary will be reasonably fair enough to acknowledge that we are not at the apex of human knowledge, and have the humility that also acknowledge that while we all aspire to the knowledge of God, we don't have the math, language or tools to even come close to it.

@Chad «I Do nt know enough about m - theory to comment on the math @ME II «So I expect you not to «criticize» science at all, since you don't understand it.»

The minor gains that NYC students made on state reading and math tests aren't good enough, according to Eva Moskowitz, the Success Academy charter school founder, who blasted Mayor de Blasio for the incremental improvements at a press conference in her Wall Street headquarters.

Caroline Flint progresses the traditional Southern Discomfort argument, tweaked for post-2010 circumstances; and Joan Ryan looks at the electoral math in both Lib Dem marginal seats and in Labour / Tory marginals arguing that a focus on Lib Dem votes alone will not be enough, and we have to also attract Tory switchers.

Lucero feels that there is not enough emphasis on science in classes at LES, and students typically have a poor showing in achievement tests on science and math compared to the national average.

A common refrain at the U.S. News & World Report STEM Solutions 2012 leadership summit in Dallas, Texas, last week was that, despite there being nearly 14 million unemployed people in the United States, American companies simply can not find workers skilled enough in math and technology to fill an estimated 3 million permanent job openings.

Taken at face value this math is hard enough on gay people in small communities, but it's made even worse by the fact that gay people tend to leave these communities and coalesce in larger urban areas.

Unfortunately, Suzanne Wilson, a professor of teacher education at Michigan State University, addresses neither the politics nor the mathematics of the debate (if a «math war» can be called a debate) with enough insight to shed light on the broader trends in America's schools.

This kind of drop in SAT scores would be a crisis, but the news that high - performing students were less prepared for college math than students 17 years earlier didn't seem to bother anyone, at least not enough to contemplate taking action.

At least in math, the size of the Teach For America advantage during the first years of teaching is just large enough to offset the cost of higher turnover.

What that means is that the true education issues at stake — for instance, whether the standards for English and math are challenging enough or, conversely, age appropriate — are taking a backseat to arguments over macropolitics and ideology.

«Parents know it is not enough to be good at math and reading,» she says.

Kris Boulton, director of education for online learning platform Up Learn and former deputy head of maths at King Solomon academy in north London, joined Stripp on the panel discussion about maths, and said it would not be good enough to allow grades to go down during the transition from the old to new GCSEs.

At the beginning of the next year (5) their maths teacher refused to let them work on year 7 maths at their own pace in class because «they weren't getting good enough marks in class work so they need some revision»At the beginning of the next year (5) their maths teacher refused to let them work on year 7 maths at their own pace in class because «they weren't getting good enough marks in class work so they need some revision»at their own pace in class because «they weren't getting good enough marks in class work so they need some revision».

Secondary schools require subject - specific teachers (i.e. different teachers for math, English, science), and these subject - specific teachers are more likely to be «fully utilized» at a large and fully enrolled school with a typical schedule (i.e. where you have enough students for a Physics teacher to teach 6 periods of Physics, and each Physics class is enrolled at maximum capacity).

Many teachers do not know their students well enough in September, so benchmarking in the fall can help teachers identify which students struggle most in reading, math, and / or behavior; however, we don't believe that benchmarking should only be done at the beginning of the year.

«Overall, the math and reading scores in grade 3 - 8 and high school did go up, but the concerns we have is that they did not go up fast enough,» Holliday said at a September press conference announcing the new results.

A student who achieves a grade 7 at GCSE is definitely suitable to study maths at A-level, but because they've fallen short of a grade 9 and 8, grade 7 doesn't feel like enough.

Giggle Facts is a perfect way to reinforce what children are learning at school, and it will provide enough math practice (through fun games instead of flashcards!)

I've never been good at math, so just seeing that my kid managed to get to the «Goal» level is more than enough to make me believe that last year's 7th grade math teacher should stay.

Of the slightly more than 11 million jobs created since the Great Recession, all but 100,000 of them have gone to workers with at least some college education.4 We live in a global, technology - dependent, rapidly changing economy in which reading and math skills are not enough to compete for today's jobs.

Yes, I haven't slept well enough to even look at that math.

They are too good with the math, and not good enough at the human systems that inadequately lie behind the math.

A quick look at the math — and the facts — should be enough to turn you away from the dealership's siren call.

[Response: In fact, Bill Nye is a scientist (well, he was formally trained as a mechanical engineer at Cornell — but close enough: he's studied physics, math, etc.).

Interestingly enough, they also performed better at math.

You won't need to go into too much detail, as highlighting the number qualifications achieved and general grades you received (Maths and English at the very least) is usually enough.

Here's some handy party math: assume each guest will have at least one drink per hour (10 guests over two hours equals 20 drinks); there are approximately five glasses of wine per bottle; a 750 ml bottle of liquor contains enough for 24 mixed drinks.