Sentences with phrase «plus or minus»

Some teachers find that using a plus or minus sign helps to bridge this gap, thereby creating more levels between the various gradations (for example, between beginning and proficient).

The poll, the organization's 49th annual national survey of public attitudes toward education, drew responses from 1,588 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points for the full sample.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.

By providing the numbers and a place to put the plus or minus for the operation, these worksheet focus the students on the process rather than on the task of writing.

For more than 40 years, Stamford has maintained its «10 percent rule,» requiring that our schools reflect the demographics of the community, plus or minus 10 percent.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 %.

But the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, also revealed that California public school parents are divided on whether there is too much testing.

That number is significant even with a margin of error of plus or minus 7.7 percent.

(Remember the magical number seven, plus or minus two.)

In the 1950s George Miller wrote a famous article about the limitations of working memory called «The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two.»

Over time, conceptions of WM limitation have changed — for example, Paas and Ayres (2014) state that four plus or minus one items can be processed at the same time for about 30 seconds.

In the flowchart above, there's a formula in the top right corner about a capacity of seven plus or minus two.

It pertains to short - term or working memory, given that this area of our brain, according to Miller's «7 plus or minus 2 Rule» [1], can only process and store 5 to 9 pieces of information at once.

Remember, the human mind can only process seven items - plus or minus two — at a time (Miller's Law).

Conducted Jan. 26 to 29, margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent Domenico Montanaro / Des Moines Register / Bloomberg poll hide caption

Whether that's a plus or a minus really depends on who you are.

Business Cycle Expansion and contraction dates for the United States Economy The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about billion years (plus or minus about 1 %).

By 1932, it was The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about billion years (plus or minus about 1 %).

Go through every personality trait you can think of and include it as a plus or a minus on your list.

The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about billion years (plus or minus about 1 %).

2018-04-07 17:43 The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about billion years (plus or minus about 1 %).

For men at age 40 it is the same age difference as woman but, by the time men reach 60, successful matches for them has reached the age range of plus or minus 6 years.

On eHarmony were reporting of successful matches is requested, it has found woman 40 years or older found a match with someone who is plus or minus 4 years their age.

For results based on Internet users (n = 1,895), the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

This year we'll be close to $ 800,000 if not over, so somewhere plus or minus $ 800,000 for 2008.

In this particular study, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey result does not vary, plus or minus, by more than 3.1 % percentage points from the result that would be obtained if interviews had been conducted with all persons in the universe represented by the sample.

With Spring in full bloom (plus or minus a little bit of sunshine and warmth in most states right about now), retailers are starting to push the biggest brightest bursts of floral pattern and I kind of love it.

The test subjects took in about 2400 calories a day on normal - diet days, plus or minus about 150.

I meant 20 % protein plus or minus 5 %.

If you take the average person around here who says, «Yeah, I'm healthy» and you take a plus or minus standard deviation, the bottom of your reference range would be probably like zero.

Although the typical 220 - age method of estimating an individual's» maximum heart rate has been widely used, this type of age predicted max HR, may produce variations of plus or minus 10 bpm, which is unacceptably inaccurate (McArdle, W 473).

When the samples correlate within plus or minus 20 %, the results are reported.

Yes, a lot of assumptions were made here (and I'm sure you could argue plus or minus 10 - 25 % for ANY of these numbers), but this hopefully puts it a bit in perspective - ~ 200 calories of glycogen is about 50 grams of carbohydrates, and given the body can synthesize around 15 - 20 grams of glycogen per hour, and is doing so during the workout from any food remaining in the gut, unless you haven't eaten in 12 hours you really only need ~ 30 additional grams of carbohydrates post workout, of which the body will use about 15 - 20 per hour to top off your stores.

The researchers found that some 13 % of women who started at a normal, healthy weight maintained it to plus or minus 5 pounds during the 13 - year period.

Moreover, the researchers determined that changes in water availability for agriculture of plus or minus 20 percent had little impact on global food prices, bioenergy production, land - use change and the global economy.

Our accuracy is down to plus or minus 15 kilometers [nine miles], so very accurate.

Using that relationship for 2016 predicts a warming above the long - term trend of 0.14 degrees Celsius and, when the short - and long - term predictions are combined, gives 1.16 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.13 degrees Celsius, with 95 percent confidence) net warming above the late - 19th century baseline.

The range of predicted values for December through February is 0 to -1.5 (neutral to cool conditions), and that suggests a 2017 net warming of 1.04 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.13 degrees Celsius).

Specifically, using data through July, I am predicting 1.25 degrees Celsius (plus or minus 0.09 degrees Celsius), and a better than 99 percent chance of a record.

It's a very mild 605 ° Celsius (plus or minus 50 °), or 1,121 ° Fahrenheit (plus or minus 90 °).

The margin of error was plus or minus four percent.

PC12 cells were plated in growth conditioned medium (CM) prepared from HT22 cells incubated overnight plus or minus 100 nM J147, and as controls fresh DMEM plus 100 nM J147 or fresh DMEM plus 50 ng / ml NGF.

For instance, there is no way that a «consensus» statement that climate sensitivity is probably around 3ºC (plus or minus a degree) should be interpreted as implying that climate sensitivity is more like 6ºC.

Pazopanib Neoadjuvant Trial in Non-Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas (PAZNTIS): A Phase II / III Randomized Trial of Preoperative Chemoradiation or Preoperative Radiation Plus or Minus Pazopanib (NSC # 737754, IND # 118613)

A Multicenter, Randomized, Open - label, 3 - Arm Phase 3 Study of Encorafenib + Cetuximab Plus or Minus Binimetinib vs. Irinotecan / Cetuximab or Infusional 5 - Fluorouracil (5 - FU) / Folinic Acid (FA) / Irinotecan (FOLFIRI) / Cetuximab with a Safety Lead - in of Encorafenib + Binimetinib + Cetuximab in Patients with BRAF V600E - mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

In the new study, a collaborator with Cooke, John Southon of the University of California, Irvine, used radiocarbon dating on a fragment of that leg bone to estimate that the monkey died 1,477 plus or minus 34 years ago, or somewhere between 505 and 573 A.D.

«If you say 2.2 plus or minus a 10th, I would think it gets the same message across.»

In addition, Cooke says that X. mcgregori probably survived long enough to overlap on the island with non-European humans, whose archeological remains suggest they had already arrived from the American continent at least 1,208 plus or minus 121 years ago, or between 687 and 929 A.D.

Based on satellite monitoring and models that estimate the carbon released from burning vegetation (plus or minus 50 percent), the group reckons that U.S. fires produce 290 million metric tons of carbon per year, equal to about 5 percent of the nation's annual emissions from fossil fuels.

The margin of sampling error for results based on all adults is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.