Articles tagged: "Geometry Help"
1: How Does Your Child 's Mathematical Garden Grow? A Brief Overview of Methodology in the Math Class
For those of us who are old enough to remember classrooms with walls, the methods we used to learn math were teacher-centered and method-based. Those who came of age before cooperative learning became prevalent in schools probably remember learning one method of solving problems...
2: Math And The Arts: Essential Partners
It 's subtle, far-reaching, and coercive, and we start learning it as early as the first grade. It may not be well-supported by research, yet it defines many peoples' self-image, their college majors, and their job choices. What is it?
3: Chaos Theory: What Is It?
Like any decades, the 1990s had its trends, from the sartorial (backwards baseball caps) to the musical (grunge and, far more painfully, post-grunge), from the televisual (all those "Simpsons" ripoffs) to the political (Bill Clinton 's "New Democrats" and Newt Gingrich 's "Contract With America").
4: How To Use Algebra To Plan Your Future
Algebra represents some peoples' fondest memories of high school - and for others, it goes down in personal history as the one activity that tuned them out on math forever. But algebra offers instant help with an issue nearly everyone needs to think about - personal finances. For an example, let 's use algebra to figure the age at which you should begin withdrawing Social Security.
5: How Numbers Helped Save One Venerable Magazine
Among publishers, advertisers, and other business folk, the idea that Americans hate numbers is almost proverbial. One publishing-industry dictum holds that each equation an author puts in a book 's manuscript will cut that book 's sales in half. Pundits decry slipping American math scores, suggesting that such math illiteracy may indicate threats to future American dominance in business and industry.
6: How Math Makes Art Possible
A popular stereotype holds that some students are "math people" and some students, "humanities people." "Humanities people" excel in such subjects as English, visual art, history, drama, and social studies, because of their high creativity or "right-brainedness," while "math and logic people" struggle with creative subjects but excel at logic-driven disciplines.
7: Math Education: A Challenge And A Joy
Don't worry about your difficulties with math, Albert Einstein is said to have told a schoolgirl who wrote to him to lament her lack of success in the subject - "Mine," he wrote, "are still greater."
8: Zero: Sometimes Nothing Is Something
What 's in a number? In the case of the number zero, quite a bit. The story of this humblest of numbers - after all, it stands for nothing - is so interesting that in recent years several journalists have written popular books tracing its history.
9: Mathematics: A Beautiful Evolution
Most of the mathematical concepts we encounter every day - numbers, addition, subtraction - seem so basic, so hard to avoid in discussing reality on even the most basic level, that it 's hard to imagine someone having to sit down and invent them.
10: How To Win With Math
Every day, we make decisions based on what we think may, or most likely will, happen. Many of these decisions seem to be based more on wishful thinking than on logic - sure, you'll run off that extra banana split! No, of course you won't get a parking ticket in the course of a five-minute stop!
11: Eta Bita Pi: One Of The World 's Most Interesting Numbers
Circles are odd things. We encounter them all the time in nature - in fact we couldn't exist without them, the earth and all its heavenly neighbors (including the sun) being spherical - and yet mathematicians and geometers insist that there are no perfect circles, outside the realm of theory.
12: How To Rationalize Your Cooking: Using Laws Of Proportion In The Kitchen
The word "rational" has all kinds of connotations - good and bad - in today 's culture. Be rational, we say to people who seem unable to see reason. Or, conversely, we tell people all too skilled at using fake logic to justify their own bad ideas: You're just rationalizing.
13: From Algebra To Art: Math 's Many Applications
It 's a question every math teacher hears. Most dread it. Some - the most creative - practically look forward to it. But love it or hate it, no one teaches math for long before a student asks: "How is this gonna help me in the real world?"
14: Beating Mr. Visa: How A Little Compound Interest Can Save A Lot Of Money
A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledger? Yes, and yes.
15: The Math Hidden In Your Living Room
A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledger? Yes, and yes.
16: The Numbers: What Are They?
There 's a question asked by any number of bored sophomores - and hard-working, frustrated adult learners as well - a question many math teachers dread, and that a few of the best welcome: "What does this math stuff have to do with everyday life?"
17: Do You Know the History of Mathematics?
If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It 's only a thousand years or so.
18: Why Are Math Word Problems So Important?
Math word problems are frequently used to gauge students' ability to decipher pertinent information and also to assess students' ability to use their analytical and mathematics skills to solve problems. Math word problems are often used to relate mathematics to real life situations.
19: Playing Games: What John Nash Was Actually Famous For
As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering his life, or his work, much better-understood.
20: Math Help for the Adult Student Returning to School
More adults than ever before are returning to formal education. Some want to learn what they have failed to learn in high school. Some have made the momentous decision to earn a high school diploma or to go to college for the first - or second or third - time. And some, particularly those in mid-life, want additional education in order to recharge a stalled career or start an entirely new one.
21: Math Help Can Be a Good Family Activity
We all use math in our everyday lives. Many of us consider ourselves to be "math phobic", "math deficient" or "mathematically challenged." Perhaps we communicate these ideas to our children or perhaps we and our children truly are any or all of the above. In educational institutions, where math is taught largely in the abstract and without practical application.
22: China: A Dynasty Of Mathematical Genius
One of the most fascinating things about history is the amount of it that 's been wiped out - on purpose. For example, in the ninth century CE, the greatest library in the world, the Library of Alexandria, was burned in an act of war, and ever since, history buffs have kept themselves tantalized and amused by trying to guess the identity of some of those books we'll never see.
23: Math Help: Why is My Child Struggling in Math?
Parents often ask why their children are doing poorly in math, particularly in grades 2-6. For young children, abstract quantities can be daunting, especially when taught in the context of skill drills. Many children do not find immediate meaning in numbers as symbols, although that is what parents and math teachers hope to convey to them.
24: Get Real! Real Life for Ways for Parents to Provide Math Help
Does your toddler appear to have a streak of your genius? Do you seek strategies to enrich your toddler 's intellectual capacity? Recent research has challenged the conventional notion that small children have native ability to distinguish quantity and to count.
25: Get Anxious About Your Anxiety: You May Be Inducing Your Kids' Math Panic
It turns out you may be to blame for your kids' math anxiety issues. According to the 2001 report, What Are the Relationships Between Math Anxiety and Educational Levels In Parents and Math Achievement In Their Children? by LeAnn Dahmer of Tennessee State University, parental math anxiety is a contributing factor in their children 's lower test scores.
26: Never Tell Your Kids They're Smart
So math wasn't my best subject. Alright, it was my worst subject. I'm more of a language person, really. Considering my father taught statistics at the local university, and that everyone in my tiny town knew him, it was rather embarrassing.
27: Saving Our Dropouts By Saving Math: Math Grades May Predict Who Survives High School
Research conducted in 2005 by Johns Hopkins University and the Philadelphia Education Fund revealed that as many as half of all Philadelphia high school dropouts showed signs predicting their early departure from school as early as the sixth grade.
