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Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Budgeting with Algebra

In this case, one might look at the case example of an average University of Phoenix student, or indeed any student at any of the ...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Middle School and Inclusion of Algebra in the Curriculum

school math curriculum follows a predetermined course sequence, "algebra, geometry, advanced algebra and pre-calculus," students w...

The History of Algebra

was a book entitled al-Kitab al-muhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala which translates as Compendium on calculation by completio...

Mathematics; Anxiety And Commutative, Associative, And Distributive Laws

such as money is used, but in the way meals are made and served, schedules are personal schedules are put together and managed how...

2 Parts on a Lesson Plan in Pre Algebra

class discussion" pertaining to the lesson and the use of materials (Cullipher). The purpose of this discussion is to encourage th...

Child Mathematics' Instruction and Zero

imagine that young minds may have difficulty grasping the notion. The existence of zero does create problems. Zero is responsibl...

Reviewing 2 Mathematics Textbooks

order of this particular book -- it seems as though Chapter 2, which deals with "The Real Number System" should, in fact, be first...

Wireless Technology In The Classroom

he would ask if there were any questions at the end of each lesson but he knew there were students who did not understand but who ...

Wassily Leontief Input Output Models

producing industry and industry is the industry that produces the tractors. Both of these industries have the same labour source f...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Algebra and How It Has Evolved

One should bear in mind that they could solve, for example, quadratic equations, and find Pythagorean triples and Babylonian tripl...

Article Review: How to Use Problem- Solving to Learn Algebra

This 5 page paper summarizes and analyzes a journal article entitled Effects of a Problem-Solving Strategy on the Introductory Alg...

Boole's Algebra and Venn Diagrams

This paper compares the algebraic concepts of Boole with the overlapping circles of Venn diagrams in five pages. Two sources are ...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

Computers and Independent Thinking

In five pages this paper discusses computer intelligence and what would be meant if A.M. Turing's test was passed by a computer an...

Five Case Studies of Various Organizations

and measures may have been taken sooner without the need to apply to the government to restrict trade with the use of trade tariff...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

NYC Skyscrapers' Controversy

population grew and the need for office space expanded. The growth of the city almost demanded that the tiny strip of island grow ...

Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 and its Implication on Aviation Regulations and Safety

In six pages this paper discusses aviation safety before and after the Lockerbie, Scotland crash of Pan Am Flight 103. Four sourc...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Refuting Rene Descartes' Argument 'I Think Therefore I Am'

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

Concepts in Linear Algebra

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses such linear algebraic concepts as gaussian elimination, determinants, vectors, and ...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

Self, Legitimacy, and Democracy in Habermas and Connolly

I. HABERMAS The social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represent the very esse...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...