March 12th, 2008 by 
Lori:
In the fifth weekly installment of these mission- and inquiry-oriented math problems, Dr. Sten Odenwald will supply background for and lead participants through problems from his “Problems in Space Science” series. …
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March 12th, 2008 by
What it is: After playing against other students on the World Math Day site my students were asking where else they could play similar games when World Math Day was over (students asking to play math games…gotta love that! …
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Seventy-one percent of ELLs scored below “basic” on the eighth grade NAEP reading and math tests. ELLs trail English proficient students by 39 points in reading and 36 points in math on a 500-point scale nationally. …
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Recently I remembered something that mentioned a few years ago during the SLAC Summer Institute at the end of Prof. Dienes’ first lecture on grand unification. (Wait until the end of the video, then you’ll hear a famous Cosmic Variance …
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March 12th, 2008 by
I would like to say this…..obviously it’sa great incentive for kids to complete math problems, but you would be helping families that can’t afford health insurance. These families would have no where to turn if it wasn’t for places like …
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Physics can only explain things so far as they perform transitive activities. Experience, knowledge (therefore science) and life are not transitive activities, but immanent ones. Aristotle describes the difference between the two by …
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March 12th, 2008 by
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It’sa familiar refrain from kids: there’s too much homework, too much reading, too many math problems to solve! But is homework really out of control? Kate, 16, averages 2 ½ hours of homework a night — sometimes even more. …
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March 12th, 2008 by
A California Department of Education study shows a correlation between the number of state physical fitness standards children meet and how well they score on reading and math tests. [Read the Full Article]
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AT my current school the emphasis with middle grade kids seems to be to get them to use a computer to produce something. [Catherine here: true at our middle school, which has just purchased Clay-Mation & Virtual Reality software. …
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Lockhart’s Lament is an article written by Paul Lockhart, and school math teacher, in 2002 and widely circulated but never published. The article begins with an analogy to music teaching: what if music teaching were made manditory, …
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