What math should an 8th grader be doing?An 8th grade math program should cover all the math strands, not just arithmetic. The major math strands for 8th grade curriculum are number sense and operations, algebra, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, and data analysis and probability....
Microsoft named him a Software Legend in 2002. He wonders whether he should tape down two of his daughter’s fingers so she learns how to count in octal. You can contact him at rollthunder.com. Discuss this article in the MSDN Magazine forum...
Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay. — Miche...
In an ordinary math class, my teacher posed a simple question: What's 0.99 rounded to the nearest whole number? Easy. When rounded to the nearest whole number,0.99=1. Somehow, I thought even though 0.99 is only 0.01 away from 1, there's s...
I would like to know what actions I should take if they have breached the confidentiality policy. By wander — On May 08, 2011 Do you have to formally sign a document for the school's confidentiality policy to be in effect, or do you automatically accept it when you enroll a child ...
First off, I don't have a problem with zone defenses. I believe that zone defenses combined with good defensive fundamentals can help teams win games.However, in most cases, they should not be used at the youth level. Under the current system in the U.S., most coaches get the unnecessa...
Now, your section scores in Math, Reading, and Writing shouldadd up to 111.Divide 111 by 3 and you’re looking at a 37 in each section: 111 / 3 = 37. You could define your target scores as about 37 in each section - or a little higher to be safe. ...
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed. Children2023,10(10), 1719;https://doi.org/10.3390/children10101719 (This article belongs to the Special IssueDyslexia and Dyscalculia: Profiles, Developmental Trajectories, and Insights from Genetic Syndromes) ...
a large study including a question training manipulation in third-grade science and math units found no benefit of the question training for learning outcomes (Souvignier and Kronenberger2007). These results suggest that third-graders are unable to profit from generating questions even if they have...
Microsoft named him a Software Legend in 2002. He wonders whether he should tape down two of his daughter’s fingers so she learns how to count in octal. You can contact him at rollthunder.com. Discuss this article in the MSDN Magazine forum...