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Theory and Cultural Competency

This research paper/essay focuses on the student's perspective in regards to background, beliefs and the theories of Leininger, Wa...

Worldviews, History in Nursing

This offers three posts that will be submitted to a nursing discussion board. These posts address various world views on science, ...

Intricacies of Nursing Identity

This essay pertains to a nursing student's sense of nursing identity. The writer discusses the student's personal perspective and ...

Observation of Older Adults, A Field Study

This essay discusses a student's observations of elderly adults and the student's interpretation of the observed behaviors, drawin...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Hispanic Americans

This research paper presents to a student an example paper of how the student might discuss the student's personal risk for develo...

Something Kind Someone Did: Journal Entry

a fan of football but without the resources to ever get to a "real" game. As such being taken to such a game would be incredibly k...

Profile of an Equitable Math/Science Classroom

and "facilitate the integration of all member of the class into learning activities" (Wallace). A particular evocative suggestion ...

Jordanus Nemorarius And Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

to those given by al-Khwarizmi" (OConnor and Robertson, 2003). Jordanus proofs had to do with "the method of completing the square...

“A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity”

use of mathematics generalizations could be made from certain observations which could be applied to other observations, that patt...

Mathematics Lessons for Primary Learners

counting strategy of tally counting, taking a group of differentiated items, tallying the results for each item group. 3. To demo...

Teaching about Breast Cancer

prefer the least invasive surgical option, others prefer the traditional approach (Katz and Hawley, 2007). Therefore, a major topi...

OVERVIEW OF MATHEMATICS HISTORY

however, early mathematics came right along with that. Richardson notes that Hieroglyphic numbers were introduced around 3,000 BCE...

Public Relations Field and Mathematics

graphs. People in this field must be able to create them. They should for example know how to compare two sets of numbers and calc...

Gender Bias and the Developmental Stages of Kohlberg

can negatively influence a persons choice of careers in either science or mathematics (Adams, 1998). As a result, these fields ar...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

Accounting Practice and the Use of Mathematics

can do on silicon. But that is not math. That is accounting. Real math is not crunching numbers but contemplating them and the mys...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

War and Mathematics

of terrorist attacks -- more specifically, the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Centers in New York City....

Real Analysis Conceptual History

traditional mathematical definition of space so that it could be utilized to compare figures (2002). Stahl (1999) provid...

UK Mathematics and GCSE Level Expansion

and A/S levels. The A level is the two year course and is seen as the traditional course, however, there is also an A/S level, thi...

Axiomatic and Intuitive Mathematics

This information is seen as being self-evident, since it does not require any further analysis or proof to assert its validity. Th...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

Reviewing 2 Mathematics Textbooks

order of this particular book -- it seems as though Chapter 2, which deals with "The Real Number System" should, in fact, be first...

College Math 'Survival'

with students, days with one solitary teacher standing well off in the distance addressing the class over a microphone and detaili...

Math and Why There Are Some People Who Hate It

of history and not understand anything about ancient Egypt and yet still be able to comprehend history in the 17th century in Euro...

Mathematics One on One Tutorial and Peer Alternatives

person-environment link and it plays a direct role in cognitive development, language development, and social development. Each o...

Planning and Scheduling from a Mathematical Perspective

In five pages this paper examines how mathematics is factored into planning and scheduling in a discussion of schedule processors,...

Is Knowledge True, or False, or Does It Reside Somewhere in the Middle?

would provide an explanation for celestial motion (Greer 356). For hundreds of years, Newtons laws of physics remained unchalleng...

Quantitative Literacy and the Mathematical Knot Theory

In five pages this paper discusses how quantitative literacy can be illustrated by the knot theory of mathematics. Seven sources ...

Alternative Mathematics Assessment

In seven pages this paper examines elementary and secondary classrooms in a consideration of the alternative mathematics assessmen...