Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Mark J. Perry:
Strip update for Wednesday, Mar 26 Romance is good for your cholesterol. Click here to jump to this strip!
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
unknown:
The gap in math knowledge likely reflects differences in exposure at home to informal numerical activities, including numerical board games. Board games with consecutively numbered, linearly arranged spaces - think Chutes and Ladders … …
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Cory Doctorow:
This is dreadful — math lessons that convey a vague idea of concepts don’t impart useful skills; they confuse students. Like most of us adults had to do, children have to work very hard to grasp basic math skills ,. …
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
ppjg:
Many socially promoted children with few math skills are entering high school totally unprepared for Authentic Algebra. What should be done??? This book – A Blueprint for the Foundations of Algebra - with its excellent companion …
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
freebook:
Yesterday, on test day, the professor walks in askes who wanted to know if he knew calculus. No one said a word. He chuckles and clicks play. A music video started playing called, I know my calculus. It was so funny. …
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
unknown:
And applying the concepts to arrive at the math for this exam is killing me. How many times have I banged my head on a table in frustration because I understood the concepts but couldn’t apply the theory to the problem? …
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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And applying the concepts to arrive at the math for this exam is killing me. How many times have I banged my head on a table in frustration because I understood the concepts but couldn’t apply the theory to the problem? … Read more.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Greg Muller:
The calculus has worked for him probably more perfectly than he ever imagined. One sign of Obama’s verbal virtuosity was his equating a passing comment by his grandmother — “a typical white person,” he says — with an organized campaign …
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
unknown:
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Lumo:
It takes filtered algebras which aren’t too far from being quadratic algebras, and sends them to commutative dgas whose underlying graded algebra is quadratic. Then there is a different construction which takes quadratic commutative …
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