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Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Bottge's ' Reconceptualizing Mathematics Problem Solving For Low Achieving Students' - Summary

"Conceptual knowledge incorporates the other two forms of knowledge, but in unique and novel ways; it requires understanding in or...

Elementary Schools, Mathematics Achievement, and Technology

thing that was certain was the fact that simply having computers in a classroom did not mean they would have any effect on student...

Systems Analysis, Computer Design, and Mathematics

several combinations to come up with the best system for the user, based on the specified requirements (Systems analyst, 2004). Th...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Eleventh Grade Mathematics Teachers in the State of New York

No Child Left Behind requires that students emerge from classes at increasing levels of proficiency, and the law provides a measur...

HIV Prevention for Youth in Rural Areas

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

Hunter's "Race, Gender, And The Politics Of Skin Tone" - Methodological Review

part of Hunters (2005) methodology, it serves to illustrate the point each author is making about extracting data based upon a mor...

Standards from National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

in. The process standards even include encouragement to use calculators as well as recommendations to use manipulatives. In terms...

Application of Montessori Mathematics to Children Between the Ages of Three and Six

children, materials such as colored rods and beads (Kahn, nd; University of Kansas, 2000). Among other things, young children can ...

Mathematics and Creative Classroom Approaches

or curriculum used" (Pearce, 1998). To make these changes teachers must gain an...

Importance of Mathematics and Statistics in Business

The mode calculates the statistic that occurs the most often, and therefore can be considered the most representative number. If w...

“The Story of Mathematics”

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

Racism & Adolescent Development

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

Support for the Death Penalty

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

Learning Disabled Students and Mathematics

mathematics is strictly needed. By conducting such a study it was shown that learning-disabled students can indeed be taught such...

U.S. Middle Schools and Deficiencies in Mathematics

implement middle school principles. The predominant theory for the last fifty years or so has been that the middle school is the b...

'Space Age Mathematics Education' Verbal Report

In six pages a verbal report is presented that is based upon a paper with the same name composed of twenty pages with a conversati...

UK Education and Mathematics Attitudes

In fifty pages the UK's mathematical attitudes are discussed in terms of literature review and influential factors that include cu...

Mathematics Teacher and Student Inspiration Jaime Escalante

High School, Tito Melean (Jagodzinski, 2001, p. 232). This teacher was in the habit of carrying around a long, thick, bone from th...

Culture of Early Greece and the Value of Mathematics

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Greek cultural importance of mathematicians such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Pto...

Compare and Contrast Beloved by Toni Morrison and Silko by Leslie Marmon Ceremony

This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...

Students with Learning Disabilities and the Teaching of Mathematics

In eight pages this paper discusses how to teach math to students who are learning disabled by such methods as mixed ability, whol...

Mathematics Learning and Gender

In twenty pages this paper examines if early mathematical concept comprehension is influenced by gender. There is a FREE annotate...