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Technology and Social media are a great deal in many communities as they create different kinds of bonds and relationships between people. Arlie Russell Hochschild in her essay “From The Frying Pan into The Fire”, she discusses the effect of capitalism and technology on the modern American family and how people spend more time at work than at home. She also talks about how families lost the ideal family life to the fragmented and hurried working life style. Malcolm Gladwell in his essay “Small…

students enjoy a variety of activities and aspects of math. The mode was adding, which fits perfectly into the lesson I will be teaching. 5. “My goals are ...” Being the best, counting, adding (5), count to 100 (3), listening to the teacher (1), subtraction (2), counting to 1,000 (3), to read story problems, drawing. Again, this provided me with an idea that students have various goals, but the mode was adding. I believe goal setting not only provides the teacher with feedback on what the…

building a house. Before middle school started, in fifth grade, the house only had the boards and the main skeleton of the whole structure. All of the basics are learned in elementary school: learning how to read, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, the founding of America,, etcetera, but by the time students reach sixth grade, new knowledge builds onto what is already known. Letters are added into the familiar math equations; stories are written with all of the reading…

The cosine was developed as the sine of the complement of the angle, and notation for cosine was also varied. The term sinus residuae was used by Viete while Gunter preferred co-sinus in the year 1620. Cavalieri used Si.2, Oughtred used s co arc and Wallis used S [2]. The tangent and cotangent developed out of the need to calculate the height of an object casting a shadow of a certain length, which was of critical importance for the sundial. Thales is known to have used the method of lengths of…

The telling of stories is the original teaching method. Stories were told in order to pass down information from generation to generation. Our ancestors did this by either word of mouth or the use of drawings, such as cave paintings. These were used to tell stories of great hunts, or to help describe certain animals, and to teach their children certain skills and how to survive in the wild. Storytelling has evolved since these simple cave drawings were used. We still tell stories in classrooms…

Learning facts begins in kindergarten with addition and then progresses through subtraction, multiplication, and division as students continue through grade levels. Students are given timed basic facts tests, usually every Friday throughout the year, to check their mastery. Students often try to memorize facts directly before their test…

Kanji and Kuipers’ essay, A Complicated Story: Exploring The Contours of Secularisation and Persisting Religiosity in Canada, argues that secularization has not occurred in a linear trajectory in Canada, and points to the complexity of the religious climate in Canadian society. The study uses the results of the World Values Survey in order to analyze various aspects of religious life such as subjective religiosity, involvement in religious services and organizations, the role of prayer,…

During the Easter break, Rina and Emi visited Mark's (assumed name) home and had activities with him in the living room. Mark is a five years old boy who attends kindergarten five days a week. Mark is Emi's nephew, we brought Easter eggs for Mark to motivate his interest toward activities. With the trust relationship between Emi and Mark and the supportive atmosphere in Mark’s home, the activities ran smoothly. Mark engaged in three activities including number sense and addition activity, the…

According to this measure, Gianna’s Academic Skills Battery (ASB) – a measure of overall academic achievement in reading, writing, and math – fell within the Below Average range (SS=85), with her performance being above 16% of same-age peers. Reading The Reading Composite is a measure of Gianna’s overall reading skills, which are based on basic word reading, word decoding, and reading comprehension. Gianna’s performance in this composite was in the Below Average range (SS=89; PR=23). The…

I want to start this letter by telling you a few things. The first is that in a few years, it will seem that you passed the most dramatic part of your life- you have not. The second is that you are loved- although you sometimes think you are not. The third is that you will miss being 5 years old- although you might think that you won’t. There are so many things that you will get wrong but those are all outnumbered by the things that you get right. I have so much to tell you in this letter and I…