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Financing Services Mandated by the Federal Government

Many services are funded directly from local money, others are a combination of local and state money, and still others have fundi...

Humanity Contributions of Sigmund Freud

to make significant contributions in the world. I was my mothers first child and my fathers third boy. Mother was Fathers second w...

Equity Arbitrage Theorem of Modigliani and Miller

who is considering making a investment and buying either company U or company L, he could buy company L and then borrow the same a...

Whole Numbers and Fractions

The physical class of learning is self descriptive, this is where the student will learn from physical experiences that they under...

Cognitive Development and Social Development

Olga, May 2009, Gender Differences and Cognitive Correlates of Mathematical Skills in School-Aged Children, Child Neuropsychology,...

Formulae and Their Importance

why formulae are needed at all; the equation from the coffee can experiment was derived from the observations of the experiment it...

Budgeting with Math Tools

college students in the country in the first place. Therefore, the particularly adept student will make use of the information giv...

Montessori Mathematics

Montessori understood that math is more than numbers and calculations. It involves space, patterns, symbols, and patterns and the ...

Islamic Art Symmetry

Herman Weil; " Symmetry establishes a ridiculous and wonderful cousinship between objects, phenomena and theories outwardly unrela...

Learning Disability Dyscalculia

other disabilities such as developmental arithmetic disorder, also known as dyscalculia which involves a child being unable to rec...

Mathematics and Creative Classroom Approaches

or curriculum used" (Pearce, 1998). To make these changes teachers must gain an...

Computer Science and Graph Theory's Future

irrelevant nor is it important as to how long the lines are (2003). This idea is contrary to most other forms of mathematics such ...

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

to the idea of "triangular" numbers. There is an "Alice through the Looking Glass" feeling to the book as almost anything can be a...

A Mathematical Instruction Through Nature Classroom Case Study

of Theory Cognitive learning is the process in which knowledge is acquired. It involves an individual being cognizant of h...

Calculus' History

pass another mid point, and so on into infinity (OConnor and Robertson, 1996). The argument looks at this as proving that motion m...

'Numbers' of Pregnancy

after fertilization, the conceptus becomes a group of about 16 to 20 cells, which is than called a "morula, which means "ball of c...

Overview of 'Abel's Proof'

that of the quintic or fifth degree equation. There are some quintic equations that have solutions that can be expressed in radica...

Rene Descartes' Contributions

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Mathematics' History and Critical Milestones

that of harmony and resonance in music. The fact that musical pitches correlate directly to numbers, they concluded that this rein...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Changing a Personal Behavior

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Logico-Mathematical Knowledge, Montessori, Piaget

experiences. At these early stages, the child does not have conscious awareness of the process of learning (Montessori, 1994). M...

Montessori, Piaget And Logico-Mathematical Knowledge

(Durell, 2001). The child is involved in three types of knowledge and goes on to higher cognitive functioning through a variety o...

Systems Analysis, Computer Design, and Mathematics

several combinations to come up with the best system for the user, based on the specified requirements (Systems analyst, 2004). Th...

Summary of Article Dealing with the Difficulties Encountered by Disabled Students in Solving Mathematical Word Problems

"basic concepts, listening vocabulary, problem solving and fractions" (Yan and Jitendra, 1999, p. 207). They had the most difficul...

Stuik’s “A Concise History of Mathematics”

and the development of the numbers such as three being the adding of the words for one and two being put together. When talking ...

Montessori, Piaget, Logico-Mathematical, Liebeck

They see clocks, signs, calendars, television channels, and so on (Brown, n.d.). The exposure to numbers becomes a good opportunit...

Summary of Learning Disabled Mathematical Problems Journal Article

In two pages Ping Xin Yan and Asha K. Jitendra's article 'The Effects of Instruction in Solving Mathematical Word Problems for Stu...

Geometry Problem of Squaring the Circle

In fifteen pages this geometric problem and associated issues are examined in terms of various theories, methods and mathematical ...