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Area colleges are receiving nearly $1.5 Million from the National Science Foundation. This grant is to promote majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, called STEM. Nationwide, there have been a smaller number of students enrolled ...
2008-09-19 03:21:00
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Oded Schramm, who died in a climbing accident on September 1 aged 46, was a towering figure in the field of mathematics and widely considered to be the world's most influential authority on probability; he would almost certainly have won the Fields ...
2008-09-18 03:15:00
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I first heard of David Foster Wallace some 20 years ago from my friend Alice Turner, then the fiction editor of Playboy. She had been trying to publish a story in the magazine by a 24-year-old graduate student in philosophy at Harvard, a fellow with ...
2008-09-19 01:47:00
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2 of 10 In the subliminal life of cities, the historical remnants of a golden age can act like a layer of conscience, a nagging reminder from the past to the present of the heights that life can attain. Across China, from Beijing to Kashgar, for ...
2008-09-19 04:03:00
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The public school board saw improvements by students in both literacy and mathematics test results over the past five years administered by an arm's-length agency of the provincial government. The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO ...
2008-09-19 01:55:00
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SANA, YEMEN -- Still groggy, the schoolgirl brushed her hair, struggled to pull on her socks and snuggled into her school uniform: a green gown and a white head scarf. By the time she gathered up her books and strapped on her backpack she was smiling ...
2008-09-19 05:44:00
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For the second year in a row, according to results released on Sept. 16, state students in every grade tested made gains on the Mathematics MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) exams, resulting in the best mathematics results in the history of the program.
2008-09-19 11:07:32
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Who could imagine that the slide rule, once ubiquitous in high school mathematics classes, would be used to figure the odds at horse races or to calculate the alcohol content of a barrel of beer? But the innocuous-looking slide rule has a 400-year-old and storied history.
2008-09-19 02:27:48
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The public school board saw improvements by students in both literacy and mathematics test results over the past five years administered by an arm's-length agency of the provincial government.
2008-09-19 02:17:47
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PUTRAJAYA: The third round-table discussions on teaching Mathematics and Science in English concluded here yesterday with mixed views on the matter. Teachers and pupils from urban areas were generally supportive of the move implemented in 2003, saying that any change will confuse future pupils.
2008-09-19 05:18:21
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Eric Nelson will take over as Monona Grove's girls basketball coach this fall, pending approval by the School Board. Nelson, 41, was a highly successful coach with the Madison La Follette boys basketball program before stepping down in 2004. He led ...
2008-09-19 08:25:00
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Fiapre (B/A), Sept. 19, GNA - More than GHc25 billion have so far been spent on an ultra-modern campus infrastructure for the Catholic University College situated on a total land area of 6.1 square-miles at Fiapre in Brong Ahafo. Briefing newsmen on ...
2008-09-19 08:33:00
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Thanks to the keen eye and metric skills of Thomas Reina, currently a seventh-grader at Garden City Middle School, Zero Odor, LLC has changed its packaging. As part of a mathematics exercise last spring, Thomas informed the company in writing of a ...
2008-09-19 06:02:00
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One afternoon in mid-July, Melissa Morris-Ivone was on the receiving end of one of those infinitesimally small acts of kindness that put you in a good mood. She was waiting for the elevator in a Center City office building. The doors opened. She ...
2008-09-19 09:23:00
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Thousands of the country's brightest pupils are missing out on tailored teaching because their schools are failing to take part in a programme catering for gifted children. Ministers have written to every headteacher in England this week urging them ...
2008-09-19 07:42:00
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