Sentences with phrase «time than the math»

I remember fretting over those lessons, and if I'm honest, the science lessons received more classroom time than the math ones.

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I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

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.

Litecoin features faster transaction confirmation times and improved storage efficiency than the leading math - based currency.

Now I know that, when dealing with infinities, the math comes out as undefined most the time, but any laymen can see in the above equation that infinity / infinity is greater than 0 / infinity.

Take an intro astronomy class and they can explain in basic terms (using basic concepts in math and physics) how time unfolded and what conditions were — and subsequently why «magical bits of everything» formed in to matter than led to the birth of the dinosaurs... It's ok to open your mind; and perhaps even God was the cause of the Big Bang.

We need a time machine to move us to three years from now when Wenger will be gone, he is more annoying than my girlfriend who cheers for Chelsea and hates maths

The same math says that three running plays that fall short of a 1st down would give Dallas the ball with a little over a minute left - more than enough time to get into game - winning field goal range with a great kicker.

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.

Billy couldn't construct coherent sentences but could make his needs known with phrases, «he's just not a highly verbal child»; Johnny doesn't like to play ball games because he always swings or kicks at the wrong time; finds math more challenging than his younger siblings, gets lost easily and confuses left and right a lot.

Cuomo administration officials, for the second time in less than a week, blasted DiNapoli for botching «basic math» after the controller released a report questioning aspects of the governor's proposed budget.

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Less than one third of students in the third through eighth grades, around 31 %, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, making the announcement on a conference call.

And one grad student had two kids, which I now know occupies more time and attention than any dinky second career telling math puns to drunk people.

At the same time, we all know people who are better or worse than we are in a particular area or task, say, remembering facts or performing rapid mental math calculations.

A team from Canada found in 2007 that drivers asked to do math problems via cell phone with both hands on the wheel spent more time looking straight ahead and less time scanning the periphery of their vision field — even while cruising through intersections — than people not talking on a phone did.

Roughly 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight per day has been reliably shown many times to be a near optimal amount (actually, a bit less than 1 gram seems to be optimal, but 1 gram keeps the math easy).

She later sensed that conventional medicine, with its focus on pharmaceuticals and surgery, was not the path she was called to walk, and she spent her time at Vanderbilt University studying economics and math, not knowing that medicine included more than the conventional world in which she was raised.

We've been told time and time again that the key to weight loss is very simple... Consume Less Calories Than You Burn It's simple math we are told.

I talk to Very Smart People all the time about psychology tests and deep math, none of which I claim to understand at more than a superficial level.

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant and small - town CPA who prefers to spend more time with numbers than people, which works to his advantage as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations.

To ensure plenty of time for puzzling and reasoning, she started her lesson with independent work time, moving into the teacher - centered portion of the lesson only after students had been studying the problem, first independently and then in pairs, for more than half of their math block.

The school's percentage of students proficient or advanced in math has grown four times more than the state's over the same period, and five times more in reading.

The results indicate that the effect of a later start time in both math and reading is more than twice as large for students in the bottom third of the test - score distribution than for students in the top third.

As my friend Dan Kadlec pointed out in a recent story with Time, Arne Duncan just said, «As important as reading and math and social studies and science are, I think today more than ever financial literacy has to be part of that.

What we think of as a fast and slow, or proficient and below - proficient, may really be nothing more than a terrifyingly deterministic game of genetics and timing, especially in math and science.

According to the New York Times, the opt - out movement more than doubled the number of students who did not take federally mandated math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests, with 165,000 kids — about one in six — not taking at least one of the tests.

RAND concluded that 50 percent of the schools with these reforms outperformed the control schools in math and 47 percent outperformed the control in reading, although these schools had been operating for a substantially longer period of time than the schools using the TAP.

School administrators report that it is very difficult or impossible to fill elementary teaching positions about 6 percent of the time, while positions in math, physical sciences, and special education are difficult or impossible to fill more than 30 percent of the time.

A new study finds that teachers hired during recession periods are more effective in math than teachers who are hired in more secure times because stronger applicants apply for teaching jobs when the economy is not doing well.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

The report, entitled «Crossing the line: improving success rates among students retaking English and maths GCSEs», found that FE colleges took on approximately five times more students retaking English and maths than schools.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

They concluded that students who were allowed additional time on the entire exam would have scored no more than 10 points higher in verbal and 20 points higher in math, though there was no advantage whatsoever among students whose overall score in math was lower than 400.

He sought to integrate math into other subjects, such as literature, science, social studies, and geography, so that users could easily adopt the activities and focus on more than one area of their curriculum at one time.

«I noticed their school devoted more than 80 percent of [their math] time to doing computational problems.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

Schools across the U.S. — especially those with high - needs, low - income populations — are finding they just do nt have the time in a typical day to do much more than prepare students for high - stakes tests in reading and math.

By comparison, students that regularly sent time on social media scored 20 points worse in maths than students who had never used those platforms, but Posso still recommends incorporating the technology as a method of assisting students who fall behind.

According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there are more than a dozen other nations where, by the time children reach 15, math problem - solving scores are higher than for white students in the United States.

And when we compare these kids to those from the top quartile, we see that a high - ESCS test - taker in the U.S. is eight times likelier than a low - ESCS student to be a top scorer in math.

In last month's segment, we presented an example of a teacher checking students» math during class time rather than taking the work home to be graded.

In other words, we ask, if a given student's math teacher spent more (or less) time lecturing than his or her science teacher, does the student perform better or worse on the math test than on the science test?

These analysts took advantage of the fact that the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) not only tested a nationally representative sample of U.S. 8th graders in math and science, but also asked their teachers what percentage of class time was taken up by students «listening to lecture - style presentations» rather than either «working on problems with the teacher's guidance» or «working on problems without guidance.»

Erin Tuttle says she noticed the change in the math homework at about the same time as Heather, and she also noticed that her child was bringing home a lot fewer novels and more «Time magazine for kids» — a reflection of the English standards» emphasis on «informational texts» rather than literattime as Heather, and she also noticed that her child was bringing home a lot fewer novels and more «Time magazine for kids» — a reflection of the English standards» emphasis on «informational texts» rather than literatTime magazine for kids» — a reflection of the English standards» emphasis on «informational texts» rather than literature.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.