Sentences with phrase «ones doing algebra»

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At least Whitehead did that and created a work that as reviewer Mathews said «ought to be full of interest, not only to specialists, but to the considerable number of people who, with a fair knowledge of mathematics, have never dreamt of the existence of any algebra save one, or any geometry that is not Euclidean» (PRSL64: 385 - 6).

It didn't linger there long — one can easily imagine one of Fud's patrons, haunted by school algebra, ripping it down.

A note about algebra: The transit project described in part one of this article was done in a first - year course.

Another study found more than three - quarters of students who took Algebra I and Geometry went on to college within two years of high school graduation, while only one - third of students who did not take Algebra I and Geometry courses did so.

Among high schools that serve large percentages of African - American and Latino students, one in four don't offer Algebra II, and one in three don't offer chemistry.

It's one thing to say a student has to know algebra, but how well does the student have to know algebra?

Stacy Quiros, Whitefield's band director and one of the school's founders, explains, «Even though we may be doing algebra, we can say that the wonder of math and the beauty of numbers come from this creative God we serve.

No one has ever taught them that to participate in your child's education doesn't have to mean teaching them algebra I.»

Phone call # 4: The mother of a highly gifted girl who does algebra in her head «for fun» and consistently scores four years above grade level on tests of mathematics achievement called to ask me how she could convince the classroom teacher and the gifted coordinator that her young daughter did not need to keep adding and subtracting one - and two - digit numbers with the rest of the third grade class.

Did you know that algebra is one of the most failed courses for high school students?

We had noticed that 20 - 25 % of students weren't doing well in algebra one — a gatekeeping course for freshmen — at the end of the first trimester and often continued a cycle of failure until the end of the school year.

«Not one time has a college called me and said what did little Johnny make on his English 10 test or his Algebra 1 test,» added Pearl High School principal Chris Chism.

This particular example of unwillingness to adapt to the modern world is a reason why just one out of every five middle - school students in seven states — California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington State — was provided Algebra 1 courses during the 2009 - 2010 school year, as well as why 300,000 students in the nation's Class of 2012 have never taken an Advanced Placement course even though they have demonstrated their aptitude for doing so, according to the College Board.

Overall Hispanic performance in mathematics also dropped one point to 71 percent but Hispanic students did achieve a one - point gain in Algebra I with 75 percent passing the SOL test for the course.

What I mean is the guys in class who really thought through things were the ones who didn't push the I believe button and instead checked the teacher's algebra.