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Profile of an Equitable Math/Science Classroom

and "facilitate the integration of all member of the class into learning activities" (Wallace). A particular evocative suggestion ...

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...

Mathematics Lessons for Primary Learners

counting strategy of tally counting, taking a group of differentiated items, tallying the results for each item group. 3. To demo...

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...

Public Relations Field and Mathematics

graphs. People in this field must be able to create them. They should for example know how to compare two sets of numbers and calc...

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...

Jordanus Nemorarius And Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

to those given by al-Khwarizmi" (OConnor and Robertson, 2003). Jordanus proofs had to do with "the method of completing the square...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Accounting Practice and the Use of Mathematics

can do on silicon. But that is not math. That is accounting. Real math is not crunching numbers but contemplating them and the mys...

6th Grade Student, Mathematics, and Methodology

school students being displayed for comparison. GENERAL MATH FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION For most students the question arises at some...

UK Mathematics and GCSE Level Expansion

and A/S levels. The A level is the two year course and is seen as the traditional course, however, there is also an A/S level, thi...

War and Mathematics

of terrorist attacks -- more specifically, the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Centers in New York City....

Axiomatic and Intuitive Mathematics

This information is seen as being self-evident, since it does not require any further analysis or proof to assert its validity. Th...

Real Analysis Conceptual History

traditional mathematical definition of space so that it could be utilized to compare figures (2002). Stahl (1999) provid...

Elementary Mathematics Writing

use the rules and processes of elementary math. There has been a shift in teaching strategies from the "teaching by telling," m...

Gender Bias and the Developmental Stages of Kohlberg

can negatively influence a persons choice of careers in either science or mathematics (Adams, 1998). As a result, these fields ar...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

Mathematics One on One Tutorial and Peer Alternatives

person-environment link and it plays a direct role in cognitive development, language development, and social development. Each o...

College Math 'Survival'

with students, days with one solitary teacher standing well off in the distance addressing the class over a microphone and detaili...

Math and Why There Are Some People Who Hate It

of history and not understand anything about ancient Egypt and yet still be able to comprehend history in the 17th century in Euro...

Math Instruction in High School and Diversity

current math performance and the skills required to meet future goals (Miller and Mercer, 1997). Fuchs (2003) conducted a study ...

Methodology on a Study Regarding Student Outcomes and Parent Involvement

organizing parent help at school, home, or other locations (Sheldon and Epstein. 2005, p. 196; Jones, 2001, p. 36). * Type 4. Lear...

Year Long Mathematics Program Planning for the Fifth Grade

will be able to classify polygons. 3.) Students will identify triangles by sides and angles. * Data analysis and probabilities: 1....

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...

Mathematics and Peer Tutoring Benefits

of homogeneously and heterogeneously grouped teams and the impact on gifted and talented students (Melser, 1999). Because the col...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

Philosophical Basis for the Music of Greece

In five pages this research paper discusses how philosophy has laid the foundation for Greek music in a consideration of its relat...

Theories of the Egyptian Pyramids

vaults for the pharaohs" ("World" PG). It goes on to say that the pyramids have square bases and four triangular faces and further...

Mathematics and the Space Program

In twenty pages this paper examines the connection between the space program conditions and 1960s and 1970s mathematics education ...

Global Civilization and Muslim Contributions

In eight pages this paper discusses how Muslim cultures have contributed to the world in a consideration of geography, medicine, s...