Sentences with phrase «math work at»

In order to make the math work at the shelter, the average length of stay has to be 10 days or the shelter will be out of kennels.

Looking at student math work at transition points and examining ways to improve curriculum alignment during transition years.

Not exact matches

(One is working as a teaching assistant while studying for a master's degree in math; the other volunteers at an animal shelter.)

Dr. Claude Shannon had a PhD from MIT, worked at the hypercompetitive Bell Laboratories, and ended his career with a dual appointment in MIT's world - renowned math and engineering departments.

When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

During her undergrad at the University of Waterloo, she designed her own co-op program (there was no co-op option for her degree in math), alternating between school and work with each semester.

Society tells us we should work on our English, social sciences, history and math all at once.

But the math only works in places with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the electricity rooftop panels generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.

Pine and her colleagues worked with a funder in Boston that wanted to foster greater interest in science and math at area schools.

Moskovitz thinks we can, provided we start looking at the real costs of our work — that is, the long - term impact on employees and their ability to contribute meaningfully — rather than just doing the math on short - term metrics like revenue per man - hour, etc..

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

The Gemini staff is working at a few rows of desks in the Winklevoss Capital offices near Madison Square Park in Manhattan; they have dry - erase boards on the walls covered in math equations and strategic scribbles as well as the requisite bean bag chair.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

So at this rate, if you work the math, the moon would have been touching the earth at like 1.5 million years ago.

We want them to love the answer, but unless others do their own math and show the work (and this requires we do the same), they won't, at least not for long.

I'm a high school math teacher that also works at Inside Edge as a remote video scout for MLB games.

Surely you did simple maths at school where you can work out 3 FA Cup wins in last 4 year is within that 20 year period let alone the rest If you are going to be AOB then at least articulate well

Work with women engineers to unravel math mysteries and solve intriguing problems at MathMovesU (Buzzards Bay)

Little pieces of math like that throughout the day often work so much better than an hour at a desk with worksheets.

It ran all day with sessions comprising: - «Dads at Work»; reading and story - telling, science workshop set in school's wild life habitat, maths games with prizes, outdoor physical games, music, a fathers seminar, lunch with the children, computers, and a Fathers Day celebration.

We think of giving them a name that sounds good out loud, that looks pretty written, that works with your last name, that doesn't remind you or your spouse / partner of the boy who picked his nose in math class or the girl who made faces at you from the bus window.

Notice, it's bringing materials home, it's handwriting, it's math calculation — get an idea of what's going on, so that you can go in and meet with your child's teacher and be able to let them know what you're seeing at home and be able to start working as a partnership together.

But when you find he's still not completing his assignments, you might have him work at the kitchen table so you can make sure he's not on Facebook or chatting with friends when he's supposed to be studying for his math test.

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).

Having worked with his family overseas as a school leader at an International School, he currently teaches Maths and Computing (with a small helping of Geography) at a Secondary school in the North West of England.

Today I'm over at Housing a Forest sharing a free printable Ice Cream Math Game I created to help my kids work on basic math skills including number recognition and counting.

Actually, according to his math you could tack on their work load (at work) and add even more to the figure.

I started taking some classes at a local university, working towards the goal of becoming a math and science teacher.

Sadler studies students» interests in the field known as STEM - science, technology, engineering and math — for his work at Harvard University.

- 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

The governor also called for full SUNY and CUNY scholarships for the top 10 percent of high school students who pursue a math or science career and agree to work in New York for at least five years.

The team then worked to integrate math, technology, and engineering into the same curriculum — a challenge, DeBoer said, as schools often teach these subjects separately, or not at all.

«No professionally trained individual working in the blindness field would ever adopt this process,» says Gaylen Kapperman, who teaches math education for the visually impaired at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

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

Working on math alone and in total obscurity ever since he received his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1991, Zhang had solved a problem in number theory known as the twin primes conjecture, which had confounded leading experts for millennia.

After years of working essentially as a volunteer, Noether finally became an untenured associate math professor in 1922 at Göttingen, where she was allotted a modest salary.

But soon he returned to Ohio, studied law, worked for the railroad (as a civil engineer) and became a professor of math and astronomy at Cincinnati College.

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.

Deciding how much to bet to maximize one's winnings is also math intensive, but a simple equation exists to determine that: the Kelly Criterion, named after John Kelly, a physicist who worked at Bell Labs in the 1950s.

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

«We have a kind of new math,» says Jens Jorgen Gaardhoje, a physicist from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark who is working at the collider.

The way math is currently taught, «students typically work a set of practice problems devoted to the immediately preceding lesson, which means they often know the appropriate strategy for each problem before they read the problem,» says Douglas Rohrer, professor of psychology at the University of South Florida.

Scott Kelly and his crewmates «will carry out hundreds of research experiments and work on cutting - edge technology development that will inspire students here at home in science, technology, engineering and math,» the White House statement says.

Some of the 106 participants were selected via random lottery to receive the Match program's individualized math tutoring for one hour per day, every day; each math tutor works with just two students at a time.

The new program, called Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have learned in course work and what they are required to teach in the classroom.

The Nobel physics laureate is expected to spearhead the Administration's push to improve science education, drawing upon his pioneering work at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to strengthen the undergraduate training of science and math teachers.

«Women and men in STEM often at odds over workplace equity: Perceived inequities are especially common among women in science, technology, engineering and math jobs who work mostly with men.»

Half of women working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs report having experienced gender discrimination at work, according to a new Pew Research Center survey examining people's experiences in the workplace and perceptions of fair treatment for women — as well as racial and ethnic minorities — in STEM occupations.

I've advocated, for example, paying kids in 7th through 12th grade the equivalent of what they would make working at McDonald's if they take math and science and get a B or better.

Cicero wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. And James Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, thinks that the eclipse cycle represented is Babylonian in origin and begins in 205 B.C. Maybe it was Hipparchus, an astronomer in Rhodes around that time, who worked out the math behind the device.