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Logico-Mathematical Knowledge, Montessori, Piaget

experiences. At these early stages, the child does not have conscious awareness of the process of learning (Montessori, 1994). M...

Montessori, Piaget And Logico-Mathematical Knowledge

(Durell, 2001). The child is involved in three types of knowledge and goes on to higher cognitive functioning through a variety o...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Changing a Personal Behavior

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

Summary of Article Dealing with the Difficulties Encountered by Disabled Students in Solving Mathematical Word Problems

"basic concepts, listening vocabulary, problem solving and fractions" (Yan and Jitendra, 1999, p. 207). They had the most difficul...

Equity Arbitrage Theorem of Modigliani and Miller

who is considering making a investment and buying either company U or company L, he could buy company L and then borrow the same a...

Schizophrenia as Portrayed in A Beautiful Mind

his mind takes off into schizophrenic delusions. It is only towards the end of the movie that the audience realizes most of these...

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...

History of Mexico and Mesoamerican History's Role

across the continent moving throughout what is now the United States and down into what is now Mexico. In regards to his we note t...

A Business Mathematical Principles' Analysis

helping to predict how much product should be manufactured in order to meet anticipated demand. This paper will examine so...

Audition, Vision and Fourier's Mathematical Findings

one to distinguish various sound waves as amplitudes of the existing constituent sine waves, a collection of numbers that provides...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Mathematical Concepts Relating to Cameras Including Aperture and Focal Points

In nine pages the relationship between mathematics and cameras is outlined in an examination of camera types along with focal leng...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

Quantitative Literacy and the Mathematical Knot Theory

In five pages this paper discusses how quantitative literacy can be illustrated by the knot theory of mathematics. Seven sources ...

Logarithms and Other Mathematical Contributions of John Napier

In nine pages this research paper discusses the life and works of John Napier including his creation of logarithms and the slide r...

Planning and Scheduling from a Mathematical Perspective

In five pages this paper examines how mathematics is factored into planning and scheduling in a discussion of schedule processors,...

Benoit Mandelbrot's Mathematical Term Fractals

In five pages the fractals concept is examined with Gaston Julia and Helge von Koch's contributions also discussed. Six sources a...

Pyramid Constructions and Mathematical Applications by the Ancient Egyptians

advanced understanding of the subject because their exploits in engineering, astronomy and administration would not have been poss...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

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...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

Mathematical Decidability Issues

In eight pages student posed calculus type questions involving decidability are answered. Five sources are listed in the bibliogr...

Mathematical Errors in 7th Grade

The following is a breakdown of the problem example given and the way in which the problem can be used to demonstrate why the mult...

California History/Santa Barbara

("Santa Barbara County History"). The founding of Santa Barbara and its original characteristics The next stage of Santa Barbara...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...