Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 17th, 2008
unknown:
Instead of taking the state-approved, covers-all-bases math WASL exam, kids finish up their sophomore year and take an exit exam on that class. Maybe it’s geometry, maybe it’s Algebra, but they have to pass. …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Homework Helper:
I got an 87 on my last Math Exam! Horray! That means I’m getting an 83ish overall in the class, which I am quite content with…..for the moment, hopefully I can keep this trend of increasing exam grades…and get an A in April
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
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BYOM—bring your own meat—is the strategy the US Olympic committee plans to implement this summer in Beijing. Wary of steroid-laden proteins from China, US Olympians are relying on Tyson Foods to send them 25000 pounds of American …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
David M. Quintana:
As part of its big expansion plans and beef up its faculty division, Top Careers & You (TCY) is currently scouting for subject-experts in Math, Science and English. This North India’s premier education organization, engaged in test …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Catherine Johnson:
They haven’t won a world series in 100 years, have had only nine winning seasons since 1980, and seem maddeningly prone to bad luck. But the Chicago Cubs are one of the most beloved teams in baseball, and ever since Sam Zell, …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Clutch:
Well, a certainly enjoyable pi day it was. Lots of treats and Friday!. Doesn’t get much better than that. With all the celebrating, we didn’t do very much. We learned, the slope fields were the graphs of the parent function. …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Yvonne:
I’ve heard it said that William Booth talked about the idea that it is difficult to preach the Gospel to someone with an empty stomach. This sentiment was mirrored in the words of Arne Duncan (the current Chicago Public School …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Yvonne:
William Booth often talked about the idea that you can’t preach the gospel to an empty stomach. This week, the news has been showcasing the Chicago Public School system’s tentative plan to open boarding schools for at risk and homeless …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
April:
Why is algebra so hard to learn? Because it’s so abstract. No other high school subject is as disconnected from the real world. When students open their algebra textbook, they enter into a world of pure ideas, with page after page of …
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
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K splitting everyone into groups of two or three students, with each group having at least one AP calculus student. Mr. K wanted the AP calc students to be the teachers and the intro calc students to be attentive and learn what the AP …
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