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    terrific conversation starter and surprisingly impressive to girls. I’ve been asked to solve the cube on the New York City subway, at a track meet in Westchester and at a café in Paris. I usually ask people to try it first. They turn the cube over in their hands, half-heartedly they make a few moves and then sheepishly hand it back. They don’t even know where to begin. That’s exactly what it was like for me to learn how to read. Letters and words were scrambled and out of sequence. Nothing made…

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    when you can recall some of the steps for solving some of the problems it makes it more frustrating. While taking the test, I got annoyed because I knew that I had learned certain formulas to solve a problem in the test and I just couldn’t remember those formulas. Overall, I feel like I did great not sure how many I got wrong because problem number 9 I thought I had calculated my answer correctly and the pdf file gives a different answer. For example, it says to enter the product of 2684 x 24, I…

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    on how the students can reflect and communicate in the classroom. In my opinion, reflection and communication are the keys to student success. I think it is important for students to reflect on mathematics in order to gain an understanding of not only how to problem-solve, but also understand why they are problem-solving and how it applies to everyday life. I also think that communication is important in the classroom. Communication allows students to explain to others how they problem-solve, as…

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    All thinking All thinking is the basis of critical thinking. Chapter 4 and 5 discusses how to dissect and understand the thinking process to better yourself at critical thinking. In chapter 4 it discusses parts of thinking, such as “reasoning”, which is when you come to a conclusion you can make sense of . “When we think we reason”. So when we are critically thinking we must take thinking apart in order to locate the problem to come to a conclusion. In chapter 5 we start to understand the…

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    mental functions, such as speech and reason in children. For instant, two children in the school working on a puzzle together and discussing where to put the pieces, after the conversation they internalize the conversation and guide themselves to solve the puzzle. Vygotsky suggested that the solution to problems can be learned by the individual and learning processes are significant for cognitive development. As a result, from Vygotsky's perspective social interaction is important for cognitive…

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    Ethics is very important it concern of the branch of philosophy, ethics, “seeks to understand and determine how human actions can be judged as right or wrong” (Soe.syr.edu, 2018). As human being we make ethical judgement by using our own experience and we also base ethical judgement upon the nature or it also could be the principle of the reason. People who study ethics have a strong believe that ethical decision has be made on the based of theory. The first theory that will be introducing to is…

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    thinking in his own way, on the basis of his/her knowledge, experience and values. Thinking is the job of everyone, which must be done properly. Critical thinking welcomes different points of views and it helps to see situation from all sides, and solve the problem in the best way. Critical and creative thinking is core thing in the Army, which is very useful and significant for proper decision making and in performing duties successfully. The leaders who apply critical thinking in the service…

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    system problems which are ill-formulated, impossible to solve, decisions making conflicts with values, and in the whole system all becomes thoroughly confused (Churchman 1967). With this in mind, I want to point out one wicked problem in specific that always challenged my position of being self-employed. First, I’ll briefly describe the wicked problem within the workplace for an independent contractor. Also, to study this problem and attempt to solve them by changing the environment, or to…

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    leader. Watson mentions how he “had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations.” Watson is describing here how he loves following Holmes in his professional investigations. This shows that he is not as important as Holmes and is more of an observer when solving mysteries. Since that Watson follows Holmes in his investigations, and does not make observations, he is not as important as his partner Holmes when solving mysteries. He also explains how he likes…

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    The main purpose of this tutorial is to understand how to take the information from the that is provided in the question and the picture that is provided, and use it to predict the motion of the board after it is released from rest and finding what is the angular acceleration of the board, while also finding the center of mass of the system. Finally, I would take all the information that I have in my answer and provide an explanation on how we got to the answer and explain about the net torque…

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