Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Kristina:
Just in case you didn’t know we wanted to let everyone know that one of our favorite artist Algebra Blessett released her latest project Purpose last month and if you haven’t picked it up you are truly missing out on some real good …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
unknown:
Watch a disturbing video on the decline in math skills for college students (click twice on the arrow above), with an explanation for why it has been happening (”reform math“), and some ways to solve the problem (abandon “reform math“). …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
unknown:
The National Mathematics Advisory Panel says our national math skills stink and we ought to go back to the basics. Well, duh. The panel issued recommendations that suggest that kids ought to actually learn math facts and skills. …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
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The report says that real world problems only cover some of the required math skills kids need. Real world problem based teaching does not improve kids’ ability to do computation, simple word problems and solve equations (Pg. xxiii). …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
leslie:
[T]he panel found that it is important for students to master their basic math facts by heart. “For all content areas, practice allows students to achieve automaticity of basic skills — the fast, accurate, and effortless processing of …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
panelwatcher:
WASHINGTON — Schools could improve students’ sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and increasing the focus on fractions and some geometry, a presidential panel recommended Thursday. …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
MultiplesMommy:
Today we talked about condensing logarithms. For those of you who don’t know what condensing means heres two definitions. Def.1 to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate …
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
leslie:
In this colorful picture book, Anderson offers up her usual fun, kid-friendly style, while encouraging math skills. Each section of the book is based on Bible verses and shows children of many ethnic backgrounds in everyday …
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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Spellings and the panelists emphasized the need to boost US students’ math performance because of the increasing need for high-level math skills in today’s workplace and because of the need to compete with workers from other countries …
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Thomas Schmeling:
Posted by: ImmortalDreams - Dream 1- I am in school, and taking some exam -there are other students there of course. I was with marlene and we were working on some paper. I doubted I would get any of these right because some were math. …
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