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Approaches to Learning

important to explore. II. Different Approaches to Learning Leaning is something that many believe occurs automatically. They ...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Anxiety In Children In The Classroom

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...

Efficacy of Tutoring Programs & Math

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

Fixing California's Budget

years in the absence of current action. Voters rejected higher tax rates and totally new taxes in 2009; all that currently remain...

Rote Memorization vs. Strategy Based Learning: A Research Study

is evidence that suggests that competence in basic operational skills is not always achieved (Ramos-Christian & Schleser, 2008). ...

OVERVIEW OF MATHEMATICS HISTORY

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

Questions on Math Instruction

the mathematical concepts they are learning in the classroom to life outside the classroom (Montagna, 2005).How often do we hear s...

Elementary Schools, Mathematics Achievement, and Technology

thing that was certain was the fact that simply having computers in a classroom did not mean they would have any effect on student...

Math Lessons and Classroom Management Plan for 3rd Grade Inclusion

of water with them today that water breaks are not as needed today as they were years ago. Restroom breaks will always be needed. ...

Vygotsky's Social Cognition, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, and Constructivism

plans (Lan et al, 1995); if the instructor tries to teach a child a particular lesson when he or she has not yet reached that leve...

Confirming Understanding of Probability

come up on 1 die for the sum of two dice to be 3. As the sides of the dice are numbered from 1 to 6, the die would have...

Analysis Of Lesson Plans

the lesson plan through the cooperative learning pairs. Students are given specific instructions on what to do at each step and wh...

Creating Curiosity About Math

more data to test this prediction (Hunt for). Specific instructions and materials needed for the lessons described can be download...

The Six NCTM Principles Of High Quality Math Programs

The Teaching principle then addresses both the act of teaching and the act of continually improving ones abilities and knowledge ...

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...

Constructivism and Logo

In eight pages this paper discusses the Logo programming language in a consideration of its educational potential. Eleven sources...

The Mathematical Contributions of Aristotle

In a paper that consists of five pages Aristotle's legendary math contributions are celebrated in terms of analysis, syllogism, an...

4 Topics Summarized

In six pages four topics are discussed and include learning disabilities and educational interventions, psychological and educatio...

Connection Between Music and Math

In seven pages this paper considers several programs in an analysis of the relationship that exists between higher scores in math ...

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...

Action Research and Education

In five pages this essay subdivided into 2 sections considers the merits of action research in a new math class for high school st...

Math Anxiety, Understanding the Fear of Mathematics

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

Elementary Schools' Innovative Programs

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

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...

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...