Sentences with phrase «go by the math»

So if you go by the math alone - leverage, leverage, leverage.

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Rather than going by zodiac signs, numerology, as the term implies, relies on math.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

When she was sixteen, she went to the funeral home by herself, unwillingly, for her fifth - grade math teacher.

Some scientists have so struggled with the extreme improbability of the conditions for life resulting from randomness that they go so far as to dream up theories of parallel universes to explain the problems presented by simple math on the likelihood of random chance.

And third of all, if L'Oreal wants to join the feminist movement for real, how about they begin by not perpetuating the stereotype that girls are so bad at math and science that they'll go out and buy a product that promises to «millionize» their eyelashes.?

''... If L'Oreal wants to join the feminist movement for real, how about they begin by not perpetuating the stereotype that girls are so bad at math and science that they'll go out and buy a product that promises to «millionize» their eyelashes.?

I worked out the maths and decided that the only way I was going to be able to sell single bags of flour was through the Amazon Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) scheme.

When I was in about P3, she knew from my teacher that I got 13/20 for a math test, «summoned» me and went through my corrections one by one.

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.

Fantastic Fun and Learning has a rubber duck math game to go along with 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle.

The seat was already held by a Democrat so the math isn't going to change.

By Sean Ryan [email protected] Four hundred does not go into 20, no matter how optimistic the math.

The family's foundation was similarly low key, giving away $ 292,000 in 2007, with nearly half going to a nonprofit math foundation started by one of Robert Mercer's hedge fund colleagues, tax documents show.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

In a series of experiments with middle school and high school students, Blikstein is trying to understand the best ways to teach math and science by going beyond relatively primitive tools like multiple - choice tests to assess students» knowledge.

In 2005 — 06, depending on the grade, a student's math scale score had to rise by an average of 32 points to go from the top of the Performance Level 1 range («failing» or not meeting learning standards) to the bottom of the Performance Level 3 range («proficient» or meeting learning standards).

Not a day goes by when some outrage — an inscrutable bit of math, a questionable reading assignment, or ill - considered writing prompt — is not paraded on social media and attributed to Common Core.

Yet, barely a day goes by when I'm not having a conversation or reading something in which movement in reading and math scores is treated as a self - evident, unqualified measure of learning.

It is as if we are trying to teach students to navigate by showing them one random set of directions or by putting one starting point and destination in Google Maps and then going over each of the resulting turns.This makes math knowledge like chains where students must remember each step or link in order to successfully navigate the problem.

When students have pencils and math paper ready, indicate the start of the game by calling out «Go!»

If the share of public funds going to independent private schools rose by 1 percentage point, there was a 12 point increase in math achievement.

So, being influenced by friends was one of the questions and the students said no they weren't, but when I went and asked teachers and the university academics «what do you think the reasons were that the students weren't choosing Advanced Maths?»

That's definitely going to add up to a whole lot of new math learning by the end of the year!

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

Under the law, every student was supposed to be proficient in math and reading by 2014 — a deadline that came and went with most policymakers agreeing it was unrealistic.

Steps along the way have included: The problem with levels - gaps in basic numeracy skills identified by rigorous diagnostic testing, Forgetting is necessary for learning, desirable difficulties and the need to dissociate learning and performance, Going SOLO on the journey towards deep learning, How do we make John Hattie's «Visible Learning» work in maths?

And despite the fact that from 2009 to 2010, when Rhee's Rhee - forms really took place in DCPS, proficiency rates on the DC - CAS went down (yes, DOWN) by several percentage points in both reading and math.

However, on average, math grades increased by 4 per cent; English marks went up and then down, but remain above the baseline average.

Tenth - grade scores on the Ohio Graduation Tests rose by double - digits in reading, math, writing and social students, and went up 9 percent in science.

Gains in math went up by double - digits and reading scores climbed 15 percent.

By taking hard - to - fill positions — like high school math teacher — or going to high - need schools, participating in extra professional development or meeting two goals they set at the beginning of the year with their principals, teachers can earn from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars more each year.

To that end, Let's Go Learn provides a system of diagnostic assessment, profiling each student's individual math and reading abilities, as well as complementary supplemental instruction, all designed by trained educational specialists.

Batley improved its results by almost 3 percentage points to 75.9 per cent achieving five A * - C, including English and maths, and Sandbach went up from 64 per cent to 72 per cent.

Powered by the OAASIS (Online Adaptive Assessment System for Individual Students) platform, Let's Go Learn's reading and math assessment solutions adapt to students as they respond to each question, getting harder or easier as needed to complete the diagnosis.

When No Child Left Behind went into affect in 2002, it said every school in the country should have its students at 100 percent proficiency in math and language arts by 2014.

They went down because Common Core is dumbed down math, and NAEP still includes test items based on what we expected kids to be taught by / in grade 4 only 10 years ago.

As a Math Teacher, we want you to maximize student mastery of mathematics by going beyond simply teaching computational math by enabling your scholars to conceptualize math concepts and show them how to apply math content to their every day lives!

As states implemented increased course requirements for high school graduation, especially in math and science, the number of students taking classes in these subjects went up by 69 percent and 60 percent, respectively, between 1987 — 88 and 2007 — 08.

Using the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (OAKS) test, gains in math went up by double - digits and reading scores climbed 15 percent.

We can start by building on the emerging common math standards, and go from there.

As we've seen in our ongoing Imagine Math contests, when kids are truly motivated by math, they'll go the extra mile and complete thousands of complex math tasks every day.

By week three, I stopped going to math class.

I had a credential in math, a credential in physics and high test scores but that was all trumped by the requirement to let go a certain number of first year teachers.

Online math tutoring programs, such as Thinkster, go one more step by providing video tutorials for all of our math worksheets.

Experienced and relatively effective math teachers who transfer from one school to another create a «spillover» effect — meaning math scores go up for the students taught by the other teachers in that grade level.

In one particularly telling moment in the current series, a pupil sums up the mood of generations of GCSE maths students, by grumbling: «When are you ever gonna need Pythagoras in your life?»

He said that after spending two frustrating hours going over the earlier pages of his son's math quiz, he was stumped by the problem himself.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.