Sentences with phrase «in mathematical understanding»

With solid classroom instruction and access to DreamBox as additional support, students made huge gains in mathematical understanding.

However, we have found that while BEAM's middle - school students are just as dialed - in and excited about math as the students we work with online, they are years behind the AoPS online students in their mathematical understanding.

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The other key mathematical driver to understanding our business model is that we invest in < 1 % of the deals that we see every year.

Beyond thinking a million - pound payout is a matter of basic necessity, he is deeply insecure in his professional standing, confessing he no longer understands the «immensely complicated mathematical formulae» that drive his industry.

Though savvy investors, like Shakespeare's Antonio, have long understood the benefits of diversification, it was not until the 1950s when an academic named Harry Markowitz introduced research on what he called modern portfolio theory that people were able to understand diversification in an objective, mathematical sense.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

What I really don't understand is how you ignore all the other sign in the bible that are to tell of the end of days and believe a man that has come up with a mathematical equation!

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

But if we understand Whitehead in light of the mathematical model, then his identification of the extensive continuum with the most general limitation upon general potentiality, the fundamental determination of order in this epoch (PR 103, 148), does not represent confusion but straightforward metaphysics.

Mathematics is the most powerful technique for the understanding of pattern and for the analysis of the interrelationship of patterns... In the next 2,000 years the overwhelming novelty in human thought will be the dominance of mathematical understanding... Applied mathematics is the transference of this study to other examples of the realization of these patternIn the next 2,000 years the overwhelming novelty in human thought will be the dominance of mathematical understanding... Applied mathematics is the transference of this study to other examples of the realization of these patternin human thought will be the dominance of mathematical understanding... Applied mathematics is the transference of this study to other examples of the realization of these patterns.

In my scientific suppositions I have proposed that their were once immeasurably unknown amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of spatial relativisms that is Nothingness itself... Such a theory regarding unknowable amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of continual Nothingness just may well be the missing mathematical linkage for explaining the hindering smallness of celestial issues that has confounded many astrophysicists who endeavor to seek a mathematical formulary in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos.In my scientific suppositions I have proposed that their were once immeasurably unknown amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of spatial relativisms that is Nothingness itself... Such a theory regarding unknowable amounts of Big Bangs spread out uniformly upon the great vastness of continual Nothingness just may well be the missing mathematical linkage for explaining the hindering smallness of celestial issues that has confounded many astrophysicists who endeavor to seek a mathematical formulary in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos.in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding of the celestial cosmos...

«39 Since few people read Lowe's entire 1949 article in which the details of his argument are really presented, I will select a few of the key contrasts Lowe reprinted in Understanding Whitehead, which contains an abridgement of the 1949 article, in an effort to show that Gunter has really answered them already rendering Whitehead not so much Bergson's mathematical alter ego, 40 as something more approaching his philosophical blood brother 41 According to Lowe, however, «it is fatal to the understanding of Whitehead's constructive metaphysical effort to define it in BergUnderstanding Whitehead, which contains an abridgement of the 1949 article, in an effort to show that Gunter has really answered them already rendering Whitehead not so much Bergson's mathematical alter ego, 40 as something more approaching his philosophical blood brother 41 According to Lowe, however, «it is fatal to the understanding of Whitehead's constructive metaphysical effort to define it in Bergunderstanding of Whitehead's constructive metaphysical effort to define it in Bergsonian terms.

In his 1959 essay entitled «My Present View of the World,» he argued that the fundamental entities are discrete but overlapping «events,» that the fundamental entities of mathematical physics are «constructions composed of events,» and that entities like conscious minds and «selves» are best understood as collections of events «connected with each other by memory - chains backward and forwards.

Nature is in fact always much richer and more complex than our imaginative and mathematical models, and we unduly shrivel our understanding of the cosmos if we equate it in a simple way with our scientific schemes.

In his exposition of Psalm 90 he even used the daring metaphor that the subject of faith was a mathematical point, so far was he from regarding faith as a subjective experience through which man's understanding of himself is illuminated, and so exclusively should faith be defined in reference to its object, the extra se of the historic ChrisIn his exposition of Psalm 90 he even used the daring metaphor that the subject of faith was a mathematical point, so far was he from regarding faith as a subjective experience through which man's understanding of himself is illuminated, and so exclusively should faith be defined in reference to its object, the extra se of the historic Chrisin reference to its object, the extra se of the historic Christ.

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to spacIn that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to spacin its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

Science as it is usually understood is simply incapable of addressing the question of the possible purpose of nature since the material it deals with has already been abstracted out of the «qualitative» realm of value and placed in that of the merely quantifiable, subject only to mathematical calculation.

An intellect like Einstein's is a fact and, if you say that the stars are overwhelmingly tremendous, I answer that a mind which can understand the stars and describe the universe in a mathematical formula is far more amazing than the stars, which do not even know that they are being understood.

The change in outlook which led to modern physics and its mathematics thus might, extended to biology, lead to a new, more flexible, more temporalist paradigm (and perhaps to a new mathematical understanding of biology).

In this Biffi depicted Anselm's perspective as, contrary to much modern emphasis, grasping that «reality as a whole is much greater than we grasp through simple natural understanding, substantiated solely by sensory experience, inductive and deductive reasoning, mathematical calculation -LSB-...] faith not only is not separable from reason, and does not harm it, but is even the greatest and highest exercise of our intellectual faculty.»

The latter can be found in more successful teaching programs — like the one at Waldorf School of Baltimore — that are based on inquiry - based learning, and on students» self - evaluation of their understanding of mathematical formulas and theories.

As one can classify the shapes of objects based on the mathematical concept called topology, an exotic phase of quantum matter can be understood with underlying topology and symmetry in physical materials.

The difference between undergraduate and graduates studies is in understanding, mastering [mathematical concepts],» he explains.

In our collaboration on diabetes, for example, data generated by experimental colleagues contribute to modeling and building a concerted mathematical effort at understanding the disease.

Applying new math, Kristina Crona, an American University assistant professor who researches in the area of mathematical biology, and her colleagues show how ranking pathogen mutants can help scientists understand how mutants evolve to resist drug treatments.

Your online traces are helping fuel a revolution in the understanding of human behaviour — one that's revealing the mathematical laws of our lives

Above all, he understands that any new theory of space and time must preserve all the descriptive power of relativity while addressing, in exacting mathematical precision, the inconsistencies between Einstein's theory and the rules of quantum physics that cry out for another breakthrough.

Back in 1992, a group of researchers at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, Missouri, formed the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) with the ambitious goal of developing a unifying mathematical framework for understanding complex neurobiological systems.

Reports from Capitol Hill suggest that many members and their staff, who spend more time reading public opinion polls than calculating chi - square values, are neither interested in nor capable of understanding the mathematical nuances at work.

«It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key to the understanding of the phenomena of Nature,» he declared in 1933.

Jowsey is researching methods to simplify current mathematical models used to understand the effects of temperature change — fire in his case — on building structures.

Kristofer Bouchard, a postdoctoral fellow in Chang's lab, then applied state - space analysis, a mathematical technique for understanding the structure of a high - dimensional, complex system like the vSMC.

Heckmann has «a good combination of mathematical / analytical skills, [a] broad open interest in how things work, [and a] good understanding of complex systems paired with good communication and organisation skills,» writes Ralf Steinmetz, his Ph.D. supervisor, in an e-mail.

To understand the principle behind robust statistics, Moitra explains, consider the normal distribution — the bell curve, or in mathematical parlance, the one - dimensional Gaussian distribution.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy are presenting collaborative research on the use of mathematical methods for understanding the transportation of chemical compounds in biological tissues, like the skin.

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

Rico - Guevara says, «Our research shows how hummingbirds really drink and provides the first mathematical tools to accurately model their energy intake, which in turn informs our understanding of their foraging decisions and ecology.»

A mathematical duo has made a surprising advance in understanding the distribution of prime numbers, those whole numbers divisible only by themselves and 1.

Damon used a quiz module in Moodle, which is a free and widely used open - source software package, as well as two mathematic software plugins (components that adds a specific feature to an existing computer programme) to test the learners» understanding of mathematical functions which are crucial in our everyday lives.

In the final step in bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systemIn the final step in bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systemin bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systemin so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systemin biological systems.

«By putting all these complicated pieces together in a simple mathematical framework, we can start to understand the underlying mechanisms of spine expansion.

In fact, they show that, with sufficient understanding of the eco-evolutionary dynamics and input from mathematical models, cancers can be steered into a less invasive growth pattern with the application of small biological force.

«OMAs can help deaf and hard - of - hearing learners to understand difficult mathematical concepts and provide them with equal opportunities to do well in formal mathematics assessments,» says Dr Nolan Damon who is a mathematics teacher and?

Perhaps the most well - known complex dynamic system is the weather and, similar to weather forecasting, researchers in the Integrated Mathematical Oncology Department at the Moffitt Cancer Center are using mathematical methods to account for many variables in the search for new ways to understand and control cancer.

You can not understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility...

It's quite a feat in mathematical physics, and it could conceivably help astrophysicists understand new planetary systems.

A new mathematical analysis tool developed by researchers from the Theoretical Biology Group at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the University of Valencia has allowed a deeper understanding of the anatomy of the human head thanks to describing the skull as an extended network structured in ten modules.

They provide a rigorous development of the mathematical tools and apply them to understand the pricing models developed for use in the financial markets.

So, if you use math for a lot of things that relate to the real world, math you can picture, and baseball is just one example of that, and I'm no expert in baseball, but I've shown and I feel I've shown over the years that just using mathematical knowledge you can glean a lot of insight into how the game works and really understand a lot of what goes on in the game.

In their paper, Lemeshko and Schmidt introduce a new mathematical technique to calculate and understand the transfer of angular momentum between a rotating impurity and a quantum many - particle system — so - called «angulon problem.»