My question is this -- and I'm speaking on behalf of all of us math teachers up here -- when you were a freshman in high school specifically, did you have math homework every night?
Even if you're not going to a four-year college, needing to get some advanced training at a community college -- even if you want to work in a factory today you now have to know computers, you have to have math skills, you have to be able to communicate effectively.
One of the big misconception people have about her job is that she must have deep math and finance background.
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The fact that we have four math majors and a full-time statistician means that we take that number crunching very seriously.
Playing landlord has a downside-that midnight February call to fix the boiler. (Isaac Victor just saw the 1990 tenant-from-hell movie Pacific Heights and admits he has qualms.) For those souls who can deal with the hassles, we have some math to tell which is the best choice.
It saddens me a little that she already seems to have written off math and science as "boring" at such a young age.
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You don't have to be a math genius to count cards, but good training software helps.
When you come to the money paragraph, as it were, you have to do the math yourself.
Perhaps the Asian fish simply have better engineering and math skills than the Americans charged with stopping them.
"On the back end, you more than ever have to do the math, " says Curtis Arnold, founder of CardRatings.com.
But traders have been using fuzzy math as proof that the bulls are here to stay instead of following the facts.
The numbers the White House put out yesterday looked at fourth graders where, between 2003 and 2005, reading and math scores have increased.
This age group needs to have the wonders of math reinforced outside of school, on their terms, in a medium such as the Internet.
Conversely, health care, business, and the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) have been more stable and higher paying for recent college graduates.
You would think even those subjects with advanced degrees in other fields would have enough exposure to math and statistics to sniff out the bogus equation.
In addition to the 5-7% of the population who suffers from dyscalculia (the numbers form of dyslexia), about 20% of school-age children have significant problems in math.
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You have to do the math yourself, because they will list the nutrient content based on one serving, which will dramatically understate the amount of nutrient load you're getting by eating the package.
For Victoria Fletcher (13), Rush Lyons (14), Thomas Shields (13) and their teammates, the experience of designing a product and marketing it to judges not only reinforced the value of teamwork, but demonstrated the applications that science and math can have on Earth and beyond.
Some of the worst schools in the country have made real gains in math and reading.
Lots of closed societies have centralized curricula that jam math into the heads of young men and women.
On the other hand, most innumerates have no idea they are math boneheads.
On the other hand, most innumerates have no idea they are math chuckleheads.
In future posts, I will show you some of the work I have done to make this math easier to understand.
His math lectures must have been addictive because he went from algebra to trigonometry to calculus and back to basic arithmetic.
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