Sentences with phrase «something about math»

Believe it or not, standardized tests do measure something about math and reading ability.

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According to the math in your article, it seems like I probably deserve that fun just about never, unless I first become a successful investor to boost my income, or change positions to something I loathe that offers more cash.

Instead of praying, how about opening a science book or learning some math and design or make something that will ACTUALLY do something.

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.

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.

When a mathematical object describes something in nature well, the math can be counted on to predict other things about nature.

Somehow, his math knew something about the universe that nobody else had previously suspected.

* NOTE: Some food labels subtract the calories from fiber in the total calorie amount, so if something has 3g fiber... the total calorie content listed will be about 12 calories less than if you did the math yourself.

There's something so ordered and precise about math.

Unlike match - making from days of yore, this go - round is more about math than chemistry, something Stewart would know if she asked author Dan Slater, who married her niece.

But then it goes on to say something about «modernizing the teaching force, benchmarking academic standards, and aligning assessments and creating new models for math and science education.»

But something was lost from the Clinton administration, which provided a lot of supportive materials to parents about their children's reading and math.

These experiences were less about the above - grade level solutions, and more about exploring the concept of reasoning, something that John Holt often highlights in his works, particularly his book How Children Fail, which I can not recommend enough for math teachers of all levels of experience.

I was recently talking with a high school student about math, and she said something that really resonated with me.

You can explain compass and maths by using the compass sensor and programming it to make right angles or a 90o turn of a 180 o, and it's something that takes the pencil off the paper and gets kids thinking about it.

«When you jump into something and teachers are excited about it, they may want to force, say, this math into this science, but it doesn't always fit,» notes Bradley.

B. 4 MATH INVOLVED: ◾ Students evaluate polynomial functions for inputs in their domains ◾ Each problem gives a set of 1 to 3 functions like this: -LCB- h (x) = -5 x-3, m (x) = 5x ² +22 x-1, j (x) = -3 x ² -5 x -RCB- And are asked to evaluate something like this: h ^ -1 -LRB--5) + m -LRB--3)- j (1) ◾ Inverse functions are used in linear cases randomly about 40 % of the time ◾ Students gain practice with exponent and integer laws (yes senior students still make those mistakes!)

Of the cross-disciplinary project she helped develop with her ninth - grade teaching team, math teacher Susan Reed says, «There's something nice about it.

There was something mesmerizing about the promise that every student would successfully be able to read and do math.

«As math has become more about talking, arguing and writing, it's beginning to require these kinds of cultural resources that depend on something besides school,» said Deborah L. Ball, dean of the school of education at the University of Michigan.

Something that nearly every adult has wondered about, but is scared to say it out loud is «Is knowing math really that important?»

Will Richardson opens his article, «Preparing Students to Learn Without Us» (pp. 22 — 26) by wondering whether his son, Tucker, can learn everything he needs to know about math through the context of basketball, something he's passionate about.

So, even just doing the basic math, if you have a publisher, is something you need to think about.

A review is usually triggered either at random (about 0.01 % of all returns get a random audit to have a human verify the computers are doing things correctly), or because your return was flagged by the computer because of some irregularity — usually something that might need to be changed like a math error, or underreported income.

With the Capital One ® VentureOne ® Rewards Credit Card, this is something you'll never have to worry about, which means you don't need to work through the math of whether you'll earn enough rewards in a given year to offset the fee.

com2kid: I had similar thoughts about math being stereotyped as anti-creative, but I think Hugh had to pick * something * to play the bad guy in this little story, else his quick and simple allegory would have derailed into a tangled spiral of qualifications and disclaimers.

All of these issues made me rethink Cézanne's paintings, in that there's something about his paintings that doesn't have to do with his style, but it has to do with math.

Then I tried to clarify something about the APR and he responded, «Your high school math teacher would be so proud.»

We've been looking for a time and a group that was not just cryptonerds, but that was practical, who wanted to build applications, who wanted to make it about the users experience of something great — not just about the technology and the math.»

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