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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...

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...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

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...

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...

Elementary School Mathematics, Science, and the Internet

simply by introducing technology, but rather is contingent on teachers integrating it into the curriculum as a whole. Other litera...

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...

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...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

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...

“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...

African American Contributions to Science, Politics, and Mathematics

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at important African American figures in the history of science, math, and politics. W.E...

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...

Community Activity Rooms for Seniors/Space Utilization

are physically connected to the community center, which is available for use by other older adults living in the neighborhood (Reg...

The Issue of Space in Environmental Psychology

an innate need to specify some physical space as their territory and to exercise some degree of control over this territory. This ...

Political Views on National Infrastructure, Space Exploration, 2008 Political Candidates, and Foreign Policy

despite the value infrastructure holds in this country in terms of the quality of life, industry, and national security. Ob...

Leave Handicapped Spaces for the Handicapped

business or job, or "going outside the home alone to shop or visit a doctors office?" (2005 disability status reports: Texas). D...

Why My Space is Detrimental

a planned social event. Nobel (1995)criticizes technology in general. His main contention is not that technology is harming people...

Public Space and the Media

seems to think, were sorely left out of the equation when Marx had developed his theories. Frighteningly enough, Habermas foretol...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

Issues of Politics, Natural Rights, and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

it also became an integral component of other areas of life, branching out into political and social implications. II. THE DIFFER...

Cinematic Comparison of 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Matrix

definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Project Prioritization

In five pages this paper examines alternatives in a hypothetical scenario involving the prioritizing of NASA programs due to finan...

Pohl and Kornblum's Space Merchants and Edward Albee's The American Dream

In five pages these two texts are discussed in terms of their themes and presentation of social issues. There are 4 sources liste...

The Space Between Us by Ruthellen Josselson

represents security; attachment, which is the identification of a special relationship which first exists between mother and child...

Entertainment Tourism and Socioeconomic Structural Space

see. A type of tourism, according to Rothmans 1998 book Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West, literall...