Sentences with phrase «other than math»

The commission he is paying has nothing to do with which he house he chooses to buy (other than the math), and is not even determined by representation per se.

Low - income students generally score lower on rigorous tests, especially in subjects other than math, largely because they lack background knowledge and vocabulary when compared to their more affluent peers.

If seeking certification at the seventh - grade level or above in areas subjects other than math or science, successful completion of at least 12 semester credit hours; or

Correlations would tend to be lower for subjects other than math.

Other than a math class, the rest of the day at Ridge and Valley is unscheduled.

If early - elementary - age students had more opportunities to experience success and parity with peers (particularly in areas other than math and reading, where large performance gaps between students at this age are common), they would be less likely to give up on school learning.

Education Week found that Connecticut, Illinois, Vermont, and Delaware's ESSA plans «explicitly want to incorporate subjects other than math and ELA into either their academic - or school quality indicators.»

Improvements to how schools evaluate educators» effectiveness include assessing students in subject other than math and language arts to identify effective teachers in those non-standards areas.

But her logic would get rid of everything other than math and reading instruction.

Does an outcome - based funding system require extending the Common Core to all subject areas, or will states create unique standards for subject areas other than math and English?

It found that about one - quarter of the testing in the Buckeye State was linked solely to the need for data for teacher evaluations in subjects other than math and reading.

But I don't believe we can ever use 100 % certainty in anything other than math and formal logic.

It can be used alongside other home education programmes such as Sonlight, or used by itself for parents who feel comfortable with autonomous style education in everything other than maths.

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Terri said it was clear that her daughter picked things up much faster than the other students did — especially in math.

Dividend Growth Investing works to build both your passive income and your net worth, can be more reliable than other investing methods, requires less time, and can be performed by anyone with sufficient discipline and basic math skills.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

I wish the schools would focus on teaching children math, science and other things required to make our society better, rather than focussing on this non-issue.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

DO the math, more people have been killed or died in the name of some obscure god or religion than any other single reason in the recorded history of mankind.

I find it sad that he consistently needs to tell the world that there is no God just because he lacks the ability to believe in anything other than science and math.

It seems to me that if a god wanted all of humanity to worship him he'd just make himself as obvious as gravity, math, or chemistry — all believers USE those facts because they work, but they believe in disparate gods because none work better than any other god..

You can do the math on that and figure out there's not much time for eating, sleeping, showering, or really anything else other than pumping and feeding.

The math is simple in my book: There are a lot more reasons to use cloth diapers other than saving money and saving the environment.

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.

Your main obligation is to cover the 8 Key learning Areas (KLAs)- science, maths, English, the arts, studies of society and environment, technology, language other than English and health and physical education.

No matter your enrollment, there is no way you look at enrollment numbers and come to any conclusion other than Republicans hold onto the Senate only through nefarious math.

But the Democrats should have the edge in a bidding war, since the electoral math will probably be much easier for each of the members in their own districts if they're running as Democrats against Republicans than the other way around.

But Walcott and other officials questioned the report's math, arguing that the new schools, on average, serve as many or more minority students and students with disabilities than the schools they replaced.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

Paying science and math teachers salaries higher than those of other teachers is probably a political nonstarter, Vasquez said.

Actually, rather than «falling behind,» what has happened over the last 20 years is that the performance of U.S. students in math and science has stayed the same (rather than improved) while the performance of students in many other nations has grown exponentially, outdistancing our students.

In the three other categories — biological science (including biomedical), computer science, and engineering — Ph.D. recipients are much less likely to hold faculty positions than they are in math and the physical sciences.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Reports from school inspectors over the past year suggest that in primary schools the quality of teaching is poorer in maths than in any other subject.

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

Far from trailing the developed world in science education, as some claim, «on PISA, the U.S. has more high - scoring kids in science than any other country» and nearly as many in the top math category as top - scoring Japan and Korea, Salzman says.

Other research, published in April, helps explain why some children respond to math tutoring better than others do.

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.»

But the full extent of the math that Katherine Johnson and the other women and men of NASA used to send astronauts safely into space and back is much richer and deeper than any one approach.

Therefore, there's no math required other than subtracting all the fiber in nuts from their total carb content.

«If PSHE were to become a statutory part of the curriculum alongside other curriculum subjects, there would be a very real danger that parents would no more consider themselves responsible for these aspects of their children's physical, emotional and social development than they typically regard themselves as responsible for the teaching of English, maths, history and science.»

The simple truth is that maths is no more or less exciting than any other subject; the challenge lies in how it is taught.

What makes these different than other math stations available?

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

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.

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.

«While 62 per cent of our students performed better in collaborative problem solving than was expected based on their reading, Maths and Science scores, a focus on one skill shouldn't come at the expense of the others,» he said.