Applied mathematics

Math Is Hard High school mathematics teachers are faced with numerous students every year who are unable to handle mathematical content. The primary goal, as a high school mathematics teacher, is to increase the student’s knowledge of algebra. However, many students are not ready for given information. Many students are lacking basic mathematical skills and are unable to do simple calculations, like long division. Nationally too many students are behind in mathematics. Every person no…

Perception of Science as Inaccessibility Science is often imagined as apathetic scientists methodically mixing different colored liquids in expensive labs with extensive procedures and regulations. Science is the epitome of method, and often held in high regard. Yet with all this regulation much of the public still doubts scientific findings. The debates over the validity of climate change continue, despite the massive amount of verification and confirmation on the subject. The public sometimes…

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are probably the biggest thing to hit public education in the United States in recent years (Neuman & Roskos, 2013). Common Core has left one group largely in the dark; parents (Neuman & Roskos, 2013). Only forty-five percent of public school parents had heard of Common Core (Obrien, 2014). This is only hearing about it, and does not include understanding what it is. Since parents do not understand Common Core, they have a lot of misunderstandings. They…

Do you love traveling? Do you ever want to travel somewhere and forget about your troubles? A place where nobody knows your name. A destination where you can sit back and relax. Just imagine it.. you visiting the Tower of London one day. Then the next you are soaking your feet in coral gardens at Bora Bora. After that, you are sightseeing at Casa Batllo in Barcelona. I always imagine myself in different places and experiencing the many different cultures and architectures worlds have to offer.…

On July 5, 2001, a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group, Kimi Ford is considering buying some shares of Nike for the fund she manages, NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund. This fund mostly invests in Fortune 500 companies, and it’s top holdings include; ExxonMobil, General Motors, McDonald’s and 3M. Nike’s share price had declined since the beginning of the year. Since 1997, Nike’s revenues had plateaued around $9 billion, while net income had fallen from almost $800 million to $580 million, and their…

didn’t understand completely how measurement works and how it needs to be precise (Parker 213). Therefore, Ruth and Cathy decided to insert a lesson on drawing scale models of objects in order to get their students to better understand precision in mathematics and measurement. They continued to talk about what they could do differently even after the school year was over.…

This week I watched children in the class solve a word problem on the board. I decide that I wanted to observe the students in Math and make a checklist to assess their understanding of the concept skill presented. The students were suppose to master the skill of solving a word problem with pictures and then when they were done, they were to participant in a class discussion on how to solve the problem. With that being said, I decided to compose a checklist to see if students understood how to…

years old. Eratosthenes was born in Greece in a colony known as Cyrene now days called Shahhat, Lybia. He later on moved to live and work in the city of Alexandria. Eratosthenes was a man who excelled in many fields of studies such as geography, mathematics, history, poetry and others. Many of the works that Eratosthenes…

Oh mathematics. A type of study that sets people apart, but also brings groups together. A study that’s been around for generations, longer than I can count. It influences people in different ways, but for me, I would say “it’s complicated.” I learned how to count at a young age due to the fact that my mother was a Nigerian high school teacher. She began teaching me in my early years how to add numbers up to one hundred, spell all kinds of words, and recite all kinds of stories. A few years…

When presented with what seems to be a simple math “problem,” teachers from both the United States and China had different ways of approaching how to solve this “problem.” This could be attributed to the amount of education both groups of teachers have. Chinese teachers have on average eleven to twelve years of schooling while United States teachers have sixteen to eighteen. Keeping their educational backgrounds in mind, Ma presents both Chinese and United States elementary school teachers with…