Math News Archives

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• Viewpoints: Proposed math standards unteachable

  California's proposed new mathematics content standards would gut the state's successful program, which has put 60 percent of the state's children in Algebra I by eighth grade. Most importantly, the proposed new algebra course is so overburdened in eighth grade that only an elite few students will be able to succeed. Unfortunately, students also will not be adequately prepared for algebra in ...
  2010-07-23 10:42:53

• King of England Emerges as Master of Money in Wake of Northern Rock Rescue

  As Britains first coalition government since World War II wrangled over proposals to cut spending , the session between King and Osborne set in motion an overhaul of U.K. financial regulation that would give the Bank of England more power than it has ever had in its 316-year history, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its September 2010 issue.
  2010-07-26 06:07:56

• Program helps teachers learn to teach engineering skills

  Twenty-four high school and community college teachers from throughout the state and the nation spent last week at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London learning ways to help inner-city high school students pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
  2010-07-26 12:41:49

• New report urges broad changes in mathematics education relationships

  (PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) indicates that changes to the nature of the relationships between researchers and mathematics educators could benefit both. The report, Linking Research and Practice, is based on the work of 60 mathematics education researchers, teachers and other school-level educators who participated in 2008 ...
  2010-07-21 02:43:56

• NASA Gives 'Gold Stars' to Top Hubble Education Products

  Fourteen educators have claimed "Gold Star" honors in the NASA-sponsored Top Stars contest, which invited U.S. formal and informal educators to submit their best examples of using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in science, technology, engineering or mathematics education.
  2010-07-26 05:00:00

• Obituary: David Blackwell dies at 91; mathematician, UC Berkeley's first tenured black professor

  Blackwell, who taught at Berkeley for nearly 35 years, was also the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences David Blackwell, a preeminent mathematician and the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, died July 8 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley. He was 91 and had had a series of strokes.
  2010-07-26 10:53:48

• Study: Stereotyping can inhibit learning

  BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 26 (UPI) -- Groups facing negative stereotypes often do poorly in tests and skill-based acts but the stereotyping might also be inhibiting actual learning, a study says. Education - Methods and Theories - Learning Theories - American Broadcasting Company - United States
  2010-07-26 07:11:55

• Folk Heroes Of The Great Recession

  During the Great Depression, Americans took inspiration from King Kong, John Dillinger and James Bra
  2010-07-26 04:24:07

• DSC to recruit more students in certain fields

  Daytona State College is getting national assistance to recruit more students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
  2010-07-25 11:10:13

• Even in summer, STEM teachers keep learning

  (STEM News is provided on Local Tech Wire through a collaborative effort with the NC STEM Community Collaborative, MCNC, and the North Carolina Science, Mathematics and Technology Center (SMT Center).
  2010-07-26 07:01:02

• Logic (MEP Year 7 Unit 1)

  Sub-Topic: Puzzles; Investigations Mathematical Processes and Applications: Representing; Analysing; Interpreting and Evaluating; Communicating and Reflecting Keywords: Logic, Puzzle, Two Way Tables, Set Notation, Venn Diagram, Problem, Row, Collumn The topic of Logic from the Year 7 book of the Mathematics Enhancement Program.
  2010-07-26 05:31:05

• UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski discusses science for women and minorities

  Mathematician-turned-university-president Freeman A. Hrabowski III is known for encouraging minority students to pursue science and engineering careers. When the head of University of Maryland Baltimore County started as vice provost in 1987, black and Hispanic students were struggling in science... University of Maryland Baltimore County - United States - University of Maryland - Baltimore ...
  2010-07-26 09:32:06

• Place Value (MEP Year 7 Unit 2)

  Sub-Topic: Place Value, Ordering and Rounding. Keywords: Place Value, Rounding, Decimal, Ten, Hundred, Thousand, Units, Tenth, Hundreth, Point, Zero. The topic of Place Value from the Year 7 book of the Mathematics Enhancement Program.
  2010-07-26 06:31:15

• Areas and Perimeters (MEP Year 7 Unit 9)

  Sub-Topic: Measures and Mensuration. Keywords: Area, Perimeter, Units, Centimetre, Metre, Squared, Triangle, Square, Rectangle, Compound, Measure, Length, Width, Height, Formula, Base. The topic of Areas and Perimeters from the Year 7 book of the Mathematics Enhancement Program.
  2010-07-26 08:31:15

• Angles (MEP Year 7 Unit 5)

  Sub-Topic: Geometrical Reasoning; Loci and Constructions. Keywords: Angle, Turn, Acute, Obtuse, Reflex, Degrees, Construct, Compass, Triangle, Equilateral, Scalene, Isosceles, Ruler, Measure. The topic of Angles from the Year 7 book of the Mathematics Enhancement Program.
  2010-07-26 08:01:25

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