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Math Assessment, Authentic Assessment Programs, and Inconsistencies

that the focus on academic test scores takes away from the overall intended purpose of the schools within society. Rothstein (2000...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

Math Lesson Design

of curriculum development model is utilised there is the need to engage the pupil and facilitate their learning as well as allow f...

Cynthia Arem on Anxiety About Math

text is logical and begins with a diagnostic process that aids the reader in determining whether or not he or she truly does suffe...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

Multiple Intelligences, Behaviorist Approaches, and the Teaching of Math

approaches. For example, the humanist approach focuses on the affective side of learning or the feelings and emotional components ...

Questions on Math Instruction

the mathematical concepts they are learning in the classroom to life outside the classroom (Montagna, 2005).How often do we hear s...

Traditionalism and Constructivism in the Teaching of Math

lack of statistically significant differences between the two models, constructivist and traditionalist, the researcher commented ...

Stigler and Hiebert's The Teaching Gap

to them the previous Friday and goes over this one (Stigler and Hiebert, 1999). The teacher explains how to do one of the problems...

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...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

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...

Math Lessons and Classroom Management Plan for 3rd Grade Inclusion

of water with them today that water breaks are not as needed today as they were years ago. Restroom breaks will always be needed. ...

Streaming Grouping Australia

been the C class (Macqueen, 208). The students spent the day taking all their subjects in that class. At that time, it was believe...

The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Rote Memorization vs. Strategy Based Learning: A Research Study

is evidence that suggests that competence in basic operational skills is not always achieved (Ramos-Christian & Schleser, 2008). ...

Confirming Understanding of Probability

come up on 1 die for the sum of two dice to be 3. As the sides of the dice are numbered from 1 to 6, the die would have...

Approaches to Science, Richard Pirsig's Work, and the Text Science and Its Ways of Knowing

In four pages this paper examines various scientific approaches as featured in Richard Pirsig's work and in this text. Three sour...

Music Listening and Its Effects

In ten pages this research paper examines the brain impact of listening to music discussing math and the 'Mozart effect' along wit...

Sociological Perspective on Education Discrepancies

In eleven pages this paper considers public education discrepancies that are largely based on social inequities and funding alloca...

Math Anxiety, Understanding the Fear of Mathematics

significantly with mathematics achievement (Pajares & Miller, 1994), mathematics aptitude (Cooper & Robinson, 1991), and grades in...

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...

Computer Science's Shifting Paradigm

they became more common and more accessible. Shift of Paradigm A favorite saying of Mary...

American Elementary School Special Education Students from Psychological and Legal Perspectives

the same critical exposure as other abled students. This concept certainly sounds as though it has inherent merit in that special...

Connection Between Music and Math

In seven pages this paper considers several programs in an analysis of the relationship that exists between higher scores in math ...

The Mathematical Contributions of Aristotle

In a paper that consists of five pages Aristotle's legendary math contributions are celebrated in terms of analysis, syllogism, an...

19th Century and Science's Triumph

probably the concept most applicable here. This concept is essentially the philosophy of history according to Marx. Historical mat...

Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Queen of Sciences' Description of Psychology

In eight pages this research paper analyzes Nietzsche's description of psychology. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Six NCTM Principles Of High Quality Math Programs

The Teaching principle then addresses both the act of teaching and the act of continually improving ones abilities and knowledge ...

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...