Sentences with phrase «to do a math problem»

My girls love choosing glitter notebooks, gel pens, and sparkly pencils which make doing their math problems a lot more fun.

We all can remember being stuck at our seats doing math problems long after learning had reached the point of diminishing returns — just so the teacher could keep us busy and quiet.

For example, you can use a pencil to write notes on the display, or even do math problems.

Perhaps more worryingly, 23 % felt helpless when doing math problems and 57 % often worried that they would have a difficult time in math class.

[Try doing math problems while running, or reciting memorized lines... very difficult to do while running.]

To test people's tolerance for various sounds, scientists asked them to do math problems in silence, and then while listening to talking, «motherese» (aka baby talk), whining and machine noise.

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.

Being a huge math nerd (seriously, you guys, I LOVE doing math problems), one thing that has intrigued me is that actual number of outfit combinations that can be made...

On this particular fall day, 16 students are getting traditional in - person instruction in Algebra I from teacher Wendy Chaves; roughly the same number are doing math problems online; and still others are gathered in clusters of four tutoring each other.

While they are cooling down, students can do a math problem using the numbers on the cards they collected, Rosengard explains.

But students said that teacher «did a math problem for me when [I] didn't know how» and «went back and helped him with questions he did not know.»

State accountability systems that emphasize minimum proficiency and teacher evaluation systems that focus monomaniacally on improving reading and math scores have the effect of marginalizing those students whose families have taken care to read to them and do math problems with them — and who look to schools for more.

Mendez and the math department have used the online math program Khan Academy, with many classes logging on at least once a week, so students will be used to doing math problems on the computer.

One expert described Lyme - related brain fog as trying to do math problems after too much Benadryl.

Psychologists from SUNY and Clark University asked trial participants to do maths problems while listening to a range of sounds, including a screeching saw on wood, machine noise, a baby crying, motherese and whining, for a whole minute each.

In the study, Pollak and his colleagues asked 61 girls, ages 7 to 12, to give a speech or do math problems in front of an audience, a surefire way to make a kid stressed.

Or do math problems, such as it is 10 a.m. now and we have to be at the park by 1 p.m..

The IFJ has previously been implicated in a cognitive ability known as working memory, which is what allows us to gather and coordinate information while performing a task — such as remembering and dialing a phone number, or doing a math problem.

You might read one of the student's compositions to the class, display her artwork on a bulletin board, have her demonstrate how to do a math problem, or, in the case of an ESL student, invite her to speak to the class in her first language.

If we're doing math problems, I allow students to come to the front and work out the assignments on the SMART Board.

These are the precious moments when a teacher can listen attentively to a child explain how to do a math problem, engage in discussions with her about her writing, or hear her predictions about a book's outcome.

I want to know whether children can understand stories, if they can explain their own reasoning when they do a math problem, if they can formulate their observations and test hypotheses in their science classes.

«I liked it a lot more when Mrs. Adesso was able to teach us how to do math problems.

Ask students to use a bit of the board to show off a talent — drawing, writing a phrase in another language, doing a math problem.

The basic hope is that the standards will reorient schools toward teaching students things that will be more useful in college and life — more nonfiction and articles than fiction, more explaining how to do math problems than memorizing formulas.

When investigators interviewed students about teacher conduct during testing, students said teachers, «did the math problem when he didn't know;»» (Teacher) would check problems and told student if he had it right or wrong;»» (Teacher) would check questions and would tell students the ones to fix.»

(Teach them how to do that math problem, but don't do it for them; advise them about crafting an argument more effectively, but don't sit at the computer and rewrite the essay or hand them a marked up essay and suggest they just input changes; talk with them about how to fill out an application but don't do it for them.)

You can ask Alexa to read the news, do math problems, report the weather, play music, and a lot more.

But, if gives them the confidence to try things that are very difficult and helps them to feel capable, they may have the courage to do math problems, they previously would've just shut down on... or whatever it is that the struggles with.

Thank you for bringing back a long buried memory of standing at the chalkboard with 25 pairs of eyes of my peers trained on me as I did the math problem... WRONG!