Sentences with phrase «life than math»

Mary's comment, the wittiest line in the film, shows that the girl knows more about life than math.

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These bright minds have submitted roughly 40,000 answers to more than 2,000 challenges in engineering, math, chemistry, life sciences, business and beyond, and won upward of $ 40 million (prizes range from $ 5,000 to $ 1 million).

The network still has almost 92 million subscribers, and simple math tells you they could recover the lost three - quarters of a billion dollars by charging a subscriber fee of something like $ 7.09, rather than $ 6.41, per month — a large increase, but, with live sports still king, not out of the realm of possibility.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

I'm not sure that the boys are covering everything on the National Curriculum - Tim in particular doesn't appear to be doing a lot of maths - but they're certainly learning plenty of other things, and enjoying life considerably more than some of their friends who go to school out here.

- 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

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

I said, «By all means, if you know more real life math than the math teacher does, you get a prize!»

No homework, no testing, and being graded on their «zest for living» rather than on their achievement in math and science - his students would love him!

Their team found that, as early as third grade, math scores help to predict who will be awarded patents in later life — that's the metric they used for «Einsteins» — but also that such scores explain less than one - third of the «innovation gap» between those growing up in high - versus low - income families.

With the new Ofsted framework including an emphasis on personal development and preparing students for «life and work in Britain today», there is clear recognition from government that there is more to education than top grades in English and maths at the end of Year 11.

There's been progress on several fronts — notably a big reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger — but none of these goals will have been achieved in full by next year, any more than the «goals 2000» project for American K — 12 education met its targets (e.g., «first in the world in math and science») by the stated end point.

Another expert with great advice for teaching math and improving achievement is Margaret (Peg) Smith, emeritus faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, author / coauthor of more than 75 books and articles, and all - around living legend in math education.

The basic hope is that the standards will reorient schools toward teaching students things that will be more useful in college and life — more nonfiction and articles than fiction, more explaining how to do math problems than memorizing formulas.

Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's director of education, says that international promises about the right to «quality education for all» now have to mean more than the «foundation knowledge» of maths, reading and science, it also needs to be about «learning to live together».

She said more than 300,000 16 - year - olds each year completed their education without enough understanding of maths to function properly in their work or private lives.

In math — as in life — there may be more than one «right» answer.

However, what I found in my classes is that my weaker readers scored higher on the math test than many of the children who in their daily lives demonstrated greater understanding of math concepts.

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.

Do the math in your area, but where we live, that means the Prius Prime is less expensive to run on gasoline than on electricity (today).

When I did the math, I was stunned that we could have the lifestyle reflected in this retirement budget, for so much less than we were living on.

If you don't do this correctly, then you'll just be using the same incorrect facts, marketing logic, and sales math that the life insurance industry hype uses, and this will make the insurance contract look much better than it actually is in the Real World.

If you do the math, if Toni works until she's 68, she will have amassed enough in her retirement accounts to throw off (in addition to Social Security) more than what she is living off today.

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.

That $ 17 million dollar figure (which, apparently, was just too good for the National Audubon Society, American Bird Conservancy, and others to pass up) is based on some very dubious math (indeed, the paper notes that birders spend just $ 0.40 for each bird seen, whereas hunters spend $ 216 for each bird shot, suggesting, it seems, that dead birds are far more valuable than live birds — a point NAS and ABC, of course, ignored entirely).

If I saw decent math to getting to the conclusions than I am willing to invest the multi-billions (and the toll in lives that will be lost due to the decline in treasure) that it will be required to fix the problem.

«Deciding whether to live in the city or suburbs is a personal choice, but when you do the math, it's easy to see why moving to the suburbs is about more than just a bigger yard — it can also save you a lot of money,» says Dr. Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow.