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.
David Williams, a handsome 24-year-old math major at Southern Methodist University, bets it all with a pair of fours.
This year, the math says "Gladiator" is the best bet for the top prize -- 2-1 to win best picture.
Last year a Broward math teacher could not understand why his brightest eighth-grade students were scoring merely average on their Stanford standardized tests.
And unheard-of tests for grades 3 through 8: Students must be tested every year in reading and math.
The act requires states to test students in reading and math every year, and penalizes schools if they don't meet standards.
This last school year I worked on Math Common Core enrichment tasks.
The test is given every three years, and it measures the ability of 15-year-olds to apply math and science to real-life situations.
Basically, as a part of No Child Left Behind, we're expected to meet proficiency in reading and math by the year 2013 or 14.
Sesame Street has begun a two-year initiative to teach young kids about math and science.
In year two, we implemented literacy and math workshop models of instruction at all grade levels.
Only about 45% of elementary students passed state reading exams last year, and 33% passed the math test.
She says there's no way that all school kids can become proficient in Math and Science by the year 2014, as the law requires.
In addition to a shrinking revenue stream from the state, another big challenge Ms. Black faces is that she'll take over just months after the state changed proficiency scores for public-school students, a move that resulted in tens of thousands more students being deemed not proficient in math and English than the year before.
About a year ago, they converted it into a Math problem and put it into a game called Foldit.
"I've got one guy--he was number one in the country in both math and physics in the same year, " Simonyi brags.
And our education system is no longer keeping our kids competitive, leaving 15-year-old American students ranked 31st in math and 23rd in science.
The math they taught in my senior year at my American high school was at the level of the 4th grade in Korea!!!!!
Last year, fourth and eighth graders achieved the highest math scores on record.
That same year, Harlem Success was No. 1 in math out of 3, 500 public schools in New York State.
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Stagnant math and reading scores for 17-year-olds, and a decline in science scores.
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One assessment shows American fifteen year olds no longer even near the top in math and science when compared to their peers around the world.
Tao, 34, has lived up to his early billing as the 8-year-old prodigy who scored a 760 on his math sat and at 12 won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
One assessment shows American 15-year-olds now ranked 21st in science and 25th in math when compared to their peers around the world.
One assessment shows American 15-year-olds now rank 21st in science and 25th in math when compared to their peers around the world.
The big one, I would say, and that others have agreed might come down the road, is really changing the deadline that requires all children to perform at grade level, not just in reading and math, but science and social studies by the year 2014.
Those extra payments and assistance with interest rate reductions shift the math in favor of modification by thousands of dollars a year.
In Kentucky, the first state to replace state exams with tests based on Common Core, the percentage of students meeting math and reading goals dropped by about one-third last year.
Women hold almost all leadership positions in high school, where they also lead SAT reading scores and are catching up in math, and represent 57% of enrollment in four-year colleges, Spar said.
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Mr. Flagg, a star on Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing, " first started selling homes nine years ago midway through his senior year at Beverly Hills High School, closing deals via text message in math class.
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