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Geithner told CNBC television that the S&P showed a "stunning lack of knowledge" about the mathematics used to draw up a federal budget. The downgrade signals that the S&P believes U.S. government bonds are now a riskier investment. S&P Managing Director ...
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Globally, American students are falling behind in the subject compared to their peers in other countries, based on the results of Trends in Mathematics and Science Study, an international assessment administered every four years. In the most recent results ...
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Problematics!!! Maybe this is the new definition of mathematics in our time. Mathematics is so much of a problem to many a people that sometimes I wonder whether the word problematic was coined out of the two most unwanted words alive – problem and ...
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Problematics!!! Maybe this is the new definition of mathematics in our time. Mathematics is so much of a problem to many a people that sometimes I wonder whether the word problematic was coined out of the two most unwanted words alive – problem and mathematics.
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"It allows instructors to bring the conceptual picture up front without intimidating their students with abstruse terminology or difficult mathematics. This focuses students on the idea, not the vocabulary or the math." Most of the users are middle-school ...
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The reason for their already oversize leverage is simple mathematics. Between the House and Senate, there are about 100 mostly fiscally conservative Republicans loosely aligned with the Tea Party movement. The biggest bloc comes from the 87 House freshmen ...
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Two young Filipino numbers aces brought home bronze medals from the just-concluded 2011 China Girls Mathematics Olympiad (CGMO) held recently in Zhenzhen, Guangdong province. The medals were won by Camille Tyrene Dee and Mikaela Angela Uy, high school ...
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The former Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College pupil’s songs, recorded in a studio in Kewstoke, have also been licensed to feature in programmes by MTV. Luke only started playing guitar three years ago, and wrote his first song two years ago ...
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Only 15% take maths in some form beyond GCSE. The report says: "Unless major alterations in our mathematics education are made and quickly, we are risking our future economic prosperity." Roger Porkess, a former maths teacher and education specialist who ...
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Children should be taught maths up to the age of 18 as 300,000 teenagers a year failing to grasp the basics, a report authored by the former Countdown presenter says.
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All pupils should study mathematics up the age of 18 amid claims that poor levels of numeracy risk having a "catastrophic" effect on the economy.
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O'Bryant High School of Mathematics and Science, which in total enroll about 5,300 grade 7-12 students. These schools have received accolades from the usual sources of school rankings, and led other states to follow our example, with New York City building ...
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and mathematics," NASA said of the plastic pals. If extraterrestrials abduct the craft, they may puzzle over the minifigures' accoutrements. Wildly bearded Jupiter carries lightning bolts to signify his status as a thunder god. Juno, meanwhile, has a ...
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Austan Goolsbee said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” the agency used “questionable mathematics” when it lowered the rating last week to AA+, from AAA. The Treasury Department urged Standard & Poor’s not to downgrade after it found an accounting error.
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Zipporah “Fagi” Levinson, the wife of the late Institute Professor Norman Levinson ’34, SM ’34, SCD ’35, died on Dec. 11, 2009, at the age of 93 after numerous strokes and pneumonia. In the book Recountings: Conversations with MIT Mathematicians ...
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