Amend works with a preteen who is taking a math class at a local university on topics more advanced than calculus.
Sony offers up a couple of possible examples, including a crudely scribbled map, a basic math equation and a drawing of a cup of coffee, all of which ship with the device like those pictures of happy families that come with department store picture frames.
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For example, it once launched a recruiting campaign based on a billboard with a complex math problem that it posted along a Silicon Valley highway.
At Manor, a history teacher might get together with a math teacher and develop a project about the impact of castles on world history and the engineering behind building castles.
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"Peasants are more sophisticated these days, " says Wang Qin, a math teacher in a Hubei village school.
But a big attraction is the 57-year-old Yau himself: He's the leading Chinese mathematician and ranks among the top ten in the world, says Phillip Griffiths, a math professor and a former president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Ballmer won a scholarship to a prestigious private day school, scored a perfect 800 on his math SATs and graduated Harvard with a BA in math and economics.
There are many fundraising products for many good causes, Kors said, but choose a watch and it's simple math: a direct formula that it's 100 meals per watch as a conversation starter.
About a year ago, they converted it into a Math problem and put it into a game called Foldit.
Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.
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Nowadays, companies use "more of a math equation, " a former executive said.
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Berezovsky began his working life as a math professor and then a systems analyst, according to CNN's Jill Dougherty, who interviewed him many times.
He proved himself something of a math prodigy, earning a scholarship to study the economics of raw material extraction at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute.
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Figuring out what will happen to the universe isn't a new area of research, but the math becomes a lot more telling once you have the approximate mass of the Higgs boson.
Likewise, if you strive to complete a number of math problems in a designated amount of time, you'll do a better job than if you try for a lower number or you just tell yourself to work hard.
Aimed at children between the ages of eight and 12, the projects inside each package teach a basic lesson in science, technology, engineering or math through a hands-on experience.
The last member of the group, a slight, nervous-seeming man with a grey goatee had retired this past summer after 40 years of teaching math in a Fort Worth high school.
The same is true for a feature called the Skill Selector, which lets parents adjust the types of math problems a child will see in games.
We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.
Morris, a math teacher who flirted with a job as an actuary before he climbed the coaching ladder, almost certainly wouldn't be doing what he is doing if not for Malzahn.
Berezovsky began his working life as a math professor and then became a systems analyst who switched to more lucrative jobs in post-Soviet Russia, said CNN's Jill Dougherty, who interviewed him many times.
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Or a child can gesture a relationship between two items in a math problem before that child can articulate that relationship in words.
If I cite a math major who did wonderful math work after attending a state school is that reason enough to increase subsidies for mathematics?
Since the study also claims that individual intelligence have no relevance at all to the group intelligence, does it mean a group with none of member within it can solve a specific math or physics problem can all of a sudden miraculously be able to solve the problem by providing at least three women?
Tao, a math celebrity of sorts, has a page-long list of rules on his faculty Web site prescribing how he likes to be contacted.
Bernard Johnson is a trucker and a math problem.
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If this is correct, it doesn't take a math wizard to understand that having a single radio module that works virtually anywhere means notebook vendors can build a single model of a product and ship it anywhere in the world, knowing it can be activated on any of today's commercial networks.
Perhaps you're a math tutor who can spare two hours a week at an after-school center.
Blackburn, a math major in college, brings "a lot of knowledge, " Boley said.
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For several years, he was a math teacher in New York City, a job he landed after struggling to find openings suited to his computer-science degree.
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