Sentences with phrase «only about maths»

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«That multi-tasking may only be costing you a few seconds,» Pons said, «but think about how many times a day you do that, and do the math.»

With one of the largest workforces in the world, its research showed that only about half of AT&T's 250,000 employees had the necessary science, technology, engineering and math skills the company required.

So, I guess I can understand the credulity of everyone who only understands what they're told and don't feel like learning anything about math or logic.

Please answer TRUE or FALSE only 1) Trigonometry tells us everthing we need to know about the a PHd in Math, a math profession, and a job shoveling manuer.

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!

I have done the math and usually the organic bulk price (especially on rice) is about the same or only a few cents more to buy from the bulk bins than the packaged foods aisle.

The other awesome thing about elementary school kids is genuine excitement over math - y holidays such as this coming Monday's Pi (e) Day, something that I previously only celebrated sarcastically, because I was a terrible person with a life bereft of wide - eyed wonder.

not quite sure about the maths here... but realistically 3 1 to city if both teams put in their best... only hope is they are knackered after napoli in which case i wouldnt rule out a draw if we can keep a decent tempo... real test in the middle of the park and i would like to see wilshire start as he is the only squad member who can control a ball and look up at the same time... another xhaka ramsey routine will see us lose sadly

When we do a math focus, we only do it for 2 or 3 days each week, or if we are doing it everyday, we only do it for about 2 weeks.

I know only tidbits about this, but the math goes something like this: Farming depletes something like 19 or 20 types of nutrients in soil.

According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.

On average, only about 16 percent of students in those 21 schools passed the state math exam, for example.

The math and English scores for grades 3 through 8 in the exams tied to the Common Core show slight improvement, but only about a third of the students are considered proficient.

The fact that only about one third of students are proficient on state tests in math and language arts was «simply unacceptable,» the letter said.

Only about a third of New York state's third through eighth grade students met the new tougher standards from April's round of state mandated English and math tests.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

I have always felt the same way about certain subjects like history — that they require memorization of names and dates — whereas, math and physics problems can often be solved using only the information presented, as long as you understand the rules.

And after doing the math, I «m pretty sure that means I can only have about 5.2 oz of protein a day.

As it is, screen legend Eva Marie Saint — one of Hitchcock's «icy» blonds — makes a stunning appearance near the film's end, only to be stranded in its dead, sappy finale and tundra of miscalculations; these include a math - challenged chronology which would make her character about 107 years old.

In 1987 88 only about 38 percent of science teachers and 48 percent of math teachers were female, while in 2007 08 these figures rose to about 61 percent in science and 64 percent in math.

My ninth graders write about failing math tests, getting cut from the soccer team, and auditioning for the lead in the musical only to be cast in the ensemble.

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

What we find is that in math, of the teachers starting out in the bottom quintile, only about 5 percent of them end up in the top quintile, whereas about 60 percent of this group ends up in the bottom two quintiles in subsequent years.

Only about one in four of the high - school graduates who took the American College Testing (ACT) program's college - readiness test last year met the benchmarks in reading comprehension, English, math, and science.

A hand search of every article in every issue of the American Educational Research Journal since its inception revealed that of about 1,200 articles, only 35 concern randomized trials in math or science education (see Figure 1).

But, the level of progress is varied between the subjects, with pupils improving on average by about two - thirds of a GCSE grade in maths, but only one - third of a grade in English.

Calling upon her two only real resources — 25 years in the classroom and a determination to get kids to pay attention — Powell set about locating literary works that could be used to support her math curriculum.

Today we live in an increasingly global world requiring educators not only to teach children about math and science, but also how to be citizens of the world, according to Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) research member and MIT senior lecturer.

The power of this moment, the change in the learning environment, and the excitement of my fifth graders as they could not only understand but explain to others what the problem was about convinced me it was worth the effort to pursue visualization and try to answer these questions: Is there a process to unlock visualizations in math?

«In math class, you should have opportunities to talk about different approaches, and comparison helps us to think not only about what works in mathematics, but also about how and why things work,» says Star.

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

After years of tough - minded superintendents and would - be reformers talking only about reading and math scores, we're now enthusiastically rediscovering that schools are actually supposed to tend to other important stuff too — things like character, decency, perseverance, responsibility, and citizenship.

We had a completion rate of 77 per cent, a pass rate of 60 per cent, and some of the causes we knew about: students had generally failed maths at Year 10, and in many cases that was their only experience; they weren't very enthusiastic; there were some attendance [and] behavioural issues.

In this project, students not only apply what they've learned about math formulas, they also learn about the elements of good design, such as proportion, similarity, and symmetry.

If the Philadelphia school district cares only about reading results, and places no weight on math results, our data could be used to support the policy choice that was made, provided no attention is paid to the statistical insignificance of the reading finding.

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

At the same grade level, only 38 percent of the Common Core standards addressed «doing» math; instead, Common Core placed much greater emphasis on such things as talking about math.

It's a test given to a sample of students across the country, and it shows that only about a third of students are proficient in math and reading.

«Teachers play a crucial role — not only in terms of the math and science content that they teach but also in the explicit and implicit messages that teachers communicate about effort and ability,» Star says.

But teachers think the emphasis needs to be increased by only about half a point in reading and even less in math, while parents would increase the emphasis in the two subjects by no more than two - thirds of a point.

In this episode of the podcast, Jay Greene talks with Marty West about why he studies field trips, why we shouldn't focus only on boosting reading and math scores, and why kids learn more from plays than from movies (and what this might mean for online learning).

Among those programs, only 23 percent required principal candidates to learn about the development of children's and adolescents» math skills.

While scores improved by nearly 2 percent from last year, the results show that only about 40 percent of students in grades three through eight are considered proficient in English and math.

On average, Finnish students do only about three hours of homework a week, yet in 2012 they scored sixth highest in the world in reading and 12th highest in math on the OECD's international test, known as PISA or Programme for International Student Assessment.

In terms of intrinsic motivation, only 34 % said they enjoyed reading about math and 37 % said they did math because they enjoyed it.

The fact that only about one third of students are proficient on state tests in math and language arts was «simply unacceptable,» the letter said.

According to the Nation's Report Card, high school math scores have remained stagnant since the 1970s, with only about 25 percent of 12th - graders scoring at or above proficient.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

Last fall a survey found that 90 percent of parents think their kids are on track in reading and math, when the reality is only about a third are.

About 600,000 10 and 11 - year - olds were due to take the national tests in English and maths in May, but only 420,000 pupils sat them.