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Drinking Age Lowering

In seven pages this paper discusses state policies regarding the drinking age and examines the state advantages to lowering to eig...

Elementary Schools' Innovative Programs

In five pages this research paper discusses program innovations for American schools that assist reading, science, and math educat...

Math Anxiety, Understanding the Fear of Mathematics

significantly with mathematics achievement (Pajares & Miller, 1994), mathematics aptitude (Cooper & Robinson, 1991), and grades in...

Medieval India and China Contributions

In three pages the Middle Ages' contributions of these two nations are considered and include India's system of Arabic numerals. ...

Mother and Daughters' Conversation

lime that has been out on the counter for too long. Edna: Now theres some "picture language!" You have such a way with words! Ba...

Literature Review on Culture, Aging, and Women

This paper examines culture and aging as each relates to women in a review of Figuring Age by Woodward, Mother Time by Walker, and...

Music Listening and Its Effects

In ten pages this research paper examines the brain impact of listening to music discussing math and the 'Mozart effect' along wit...

Europe From 800 until 1400 A.D. and Changes in Religions, Economics, and Social Groups

In three pages this essay discusses changes that had a great cultural impact upon Middle Ages' Europe. There are 2 bibliographic ...

A Review of Lopez's Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages

of the arts) were administered accordingly. One of the most significant changes brought about by the barbarian age was its ge...

Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and the Secularization of Modernity

The New Age religious movement is the focus of this review of Paul Heelas' The New Age Movement The Celebration of the Self and t...

Memo on Qualitative Study Design

In six pages this paper examines better approaches to teaching math to students who are learning disabled in this qualitative stud...

High School Students with Disabilities and Math Software

In five pages this paper discusses how for high school pupils who are disabled math software could improve word problem solving wi...

Middle Ages Witchcraft Perceptions and Hysteria

In fifteen pages Middle Ages' perceptions regarding witchcraft and the persecution of accused witches are examined. Twenty source...

Mathematics and Computer Technology

has clearly developed in the mathematics classroom. Young (2000) considered the implications of computer and technological advanc...

Learning Disabled Students and Mathematics

mathematics is strictly needed. By conducting such a study it was shown that learning-disabled students can indeed be taught such...

Mathematics Teacher and Student Inspiration Jaime Escalante

High School, Tito Melean (Jagodzinski, 2001, p. 232). This teacher was in the habit of carrying around a long, thick, bone from th...

Aging and Ordinary People

employment he took on before he retired from the carpentry trade. He is a master carpenter - beginning when he first got out of t...

Women of the Nineteenth Century in Stories by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

Shortcomings of Math and Science Textbooks

science texts were found to be unsatisfactory with little potential for helping students learn important ideas and skills(Stern, R...

Learning Enhancement and the Integration of Math and Literature

concrete, pictorial, graphical, and algebraic methods". THE USE OF QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS The researcher is the p...

'Golden Age' of the Cold War Era

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...

Cohen's Equal Exchange Model and Teaching Math

many variables and a high level of research may be required. This may be at different levels as well as for different reference to...

Heloise and Peter Abelard Letters

quarters and castrate him (Chronicles...Gans). Abelard removed himself from society, to a certain extent, by becoming a monk, and ...

Autobiographical Account of 'Math Anxiety'

was of number 1 to 100. I copied the full chart and was extremely embarrassed when I was a great deal slower than the rest of the ...

Math Assessment, Authentic Assessment Programs, and Inconsistencies

that the focus on academic test scores takes away from the overall intended purpose of the schools within society. Rothstein (2000...

Importance of Mathematics and Statistics in Business

The mode calculates the statistic that occurs the most often, and therefore can be considered the most representative number. If w...

Nutrition and Aging

25 and 30 percent of residents are underweight (Matrix). Data collected from 255 nursing homes in ten states revealed that 31 perc...

Article on Adolescents and Anger Critiqued Critique of “Anger in Adolescents: Sex, Ethnicity, Age Differences, and Psychometric Properties”

The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable fo...

Analyzing Another Country by Mary Pipher

old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...

Age Discrimination and RIF

process. The employee was doing her job well enough to meet legitimate expectations of the employer (Utah State University, nd). M...