Sentences with phrase «little math in»

We even get a little math in this activity.

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The math is a little more complicated once you start introducing credit, but yes, a corporate bond is also sensitive to changes in interest rates.
Since 2001, the curriculum in many elementary schools has narrowed to little more than a steady diet of reading and math.
Little did I know that she couldn't solve it because she had never been taught math in school.
Take 30 high - performing stocks in multiple sectors, do a little bit of math, and there you have it — a snapshot of the relative strength of the market.
Now please stop being disingenuous and let the general populace in on your dirty little secret of math / 2.
No longer math - phobes, now steeped in history, geology, logic, sentence diagramming, and even (thanks to my husband) a little Plato, they thrived.
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.
This time you'll fill the jar half full with flour, add a little sugar if desired, crack in the egg, but only add enough milk to take you to 3/4 of the way up the jar... you can even teach your kids about maths while making these!
In this article, Sports Insights looks at how some scamdicappers use math and marketing to look good, but they add little or no value to their customers» accounts.
Doing a little math of my own, I was able to determine that there are approximately 30 teams ahead of the Stars in scoring since February 4th.
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!
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).
Thanksgiving Necklaces This easy Thanksgiving necklace for kids involves simple counting so you can sneak in a little math during your craft time.
«It will produce so much food, so there's all of these little math equations in there.
Inspectors sat in on a maths class where pupils predominantly cut out and pasted shapes and «learned little that was mathematical».
«Let us do a little math: The Governor is a Democrat (in part because of you).
The story asserts Pirro's math is a little fuzzy regarding the 111 sex - crimes convictions she claims to have made while in office.
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 familieIn 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 familiein any significant value added, suggesting that just a little bit of math interactions at home can go a long way for math - anxious families.
At first, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin thought their theory, published in January, was little more than a cute math trick: They calculated that a planet, a «mini-Neptune» with an elongated orbit, could explain why some objects beyond Neptune seem oddly grouped in space.
When people stared at the mathematics governing the motion of these little filaments, they found, remarkably, that the math didn't work in a universe that has only three dimensions of space.
To evaluate the effects of a little bedtime math, Beilock, psychologist Susan Levine, and colleagues at the University of Chicago recruited 587 first - graders from 22 schools, public and private, richer and poorer, in the Chicago metropolitan area.
This chapter is a little more esoteric than the other more descriptive chapters, but the book's stack of references points the reader in the general direction of simpler explanations of, for instance, the maths.
«The connection between music and math is very strong, and physics is more wound up in math than the other sciences,» Smith says, adding that with free - spirited eccentrics like Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman as their role models, «maybe physicists feel a little more free to be kooky.»
The result is a little like knowing the number of students and distribution of grades in a particular school, but having no idea if the student who sits in the third row actually likes math.
Since this is a post about math, you can do the calculations to see what this little data jaunt cost, and why you might not want to measure every day all the time like I did in this example.
Numbers Parade provides little ones with the basics of math such as numbers, counting, shapes and even mathematical thinking skills, all in a fun and engaging way!
«I wish I had had a Shuri on TV or the movies I could have seen while growing up and I would have stayed in my math classes a little bit longer,» she added with a smile.
Hi, I made the maths videos to flip the classroom with little learners in Finland.
Consider a math competition, said the dean of an all - boys, entirely African American charter school that seemed to have little in common with Powell: «Kids respond well to that.»
Unfortunately, the United States educates only a little more than 6 percent of its students to an advanced level in math according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a small percentage when compared to the proportion in many other countries that score at a comparable level on the international PISA test.
Eligible schools were notified in November of 2007, leaving relatively little time for teachers and administrators to alter their educational plans before accountability exams were administered in January for reading and March for math.
«They might have their students coloring or be involved in the logistics of the class, but there is very little math going on.
But outperforming students in Los Angeles, which is only at the 20th percentile in math relative to a global comparison group, should provide little comfort to Beverly Hills parents.
The data indicate that high - scoring math and science majors were relatively more likely to become teachers in 2008 than in the past, but there has been little change in the likelihood that math and science majors as a whole choose to enter the teaching field.
In particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scoreIn particular, since 2001 (that is, since NCLB was passed), there have been sizable gains in NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scorein NAEP 4th - and 8th - grade math tests, small improvements in 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scorein 4th - and 8th - grade reading tests, and very little change in 12th - grade scorein 12th - grade scores.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.
Rhode Island's basic profile had changed little by the time U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a crowd of Rhode Island stakeholders in late 2011, «In math, Rhode Island's white students trail Iceland, Estonia, Sloveniin late 2011, «In math, Rhode Island's white students trail Iceland, Estonia, SloveniIn math, Rhode Island's white students trail Iceland, Estonia, Slovenia.
I had by then ruled out a career in math, and my teacher did little to explain the pertinence of limits and derivatives in my life beyond that I may fail another test.
The typical math curriculum is a good example of how we want learners to move toward expertise in a subject, with little regard for usefulness.
«If the activity, whether it be debate or math competition or basketball, receives no publicity, no recognition in the newspapers and by the community generally, then its winning will have brought little glory to the school, and will bring little encouragement to the participants.»
In a front - page story in the Times in November of 2007, the paper reported «no significant progress in reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEPIn a front - page story in the Times in November of 2007, the paper reported «no significant progress in reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEPin the Times in November of 2007, the paper reported «no significant progress in reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEPin November of 2007, the paper reported «no significant progress in reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEPin reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEP.)
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.
And WWC found in 2007 that expensively touted math texts and test - preparation software had little effect on student outcomes: textbook superpower Houghton Mifflin's elementary mathematics curriculum, for instance, was «found to have no discernible effects on... achievement.»
Only a little more than half (51 percent) of Massachusetts students are proficient in math, while Minnesota, the runner - up state, has a math proficiency rate of just 43 percent.
Brantley's colleague, kindergarten teacher Mary Ford, has also used the Wii sports games in a joint activity with an older class: Ford and third - grade teacher Laura Smith paired up their students for a game of bowling with a little real - world math practice thrown in.
And I'm not just talking about sticking them in some suspiciously named Acme - Higher - Learning - A + - Little - Stanford Academy that offers math and test prep and reading comprehension practice in a windowless room, taught by someone who makes commission on the number of As your student returns with on one test or another.
As Coleman recognized, «If the activity, whether it be debate or math competition or basketball, receives no publicity, no recognition in the newspapers and by the community generally, then its winning will have brought little glory to the school, and will bring little encouragement to the participants.»
Note also that in Odden's peer review in 2004 of William Driscoll's and Howard Fleeter's Ohio study of the costs of bringing all students to proficiency in math and reading in order to comply with NCLB, he castigates the study's authors, who called for expanded summer school, because they «reference no research to support this assertion, when in fact most research shows that summer school as typically administered has little if any impact on learning.»
The pack includes: Display banners - Two different colourful banners for your Halloween display Display borders - Various borders which can be printed as many times as you need for display boards of any size Pictures - Large colour and black and white pictures of things such as a spider, a pumpkin, a ghost etc - these look great on displays and the black and white version could be used for art work Matching pairs game - A Halloween themed game Bingo - A colourful Halloween themed bingo game A4 display borders - Work borders in colour and black and white for displaying work quickly or to use as writing pages Worksheets - Various worksheets with a Halloween theme - maths, writing, drawing Tracing - Various tracing worksheets to trace over the dotted lines of the pictures Counting cards - Cards up to ten each with a spider web and the corresponding number of spiders Alphabet - A colourful alphabet line on pumpkins Colour photos - Great for displays or discussion Face masks - Halloween face masks in colour and black and white of a witch, a pumpkin, a black cat and a skeleton Numbers - A number line to 100 on spiders Word cards - Topic word cards about Halloween - each decorated with Halloween pictures A4 word card - A colourful card with words and pictures which can be used when writing about Halloween Word searches - Two different wordsearches with words and pictures relating to Halloween Colouring - Various colouring sheets for Halloween Number rhyme - The rhyme «Five Little Pumpkins» - a lovely Halloween number rhyme with rhyme cards, props and face masks
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