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### Electricity Production is Radically Changing

The age of batteries is just getting started. In the latest episode of our animated series, Sooner Than You Think, Bloomberg’s Tom Randall does the math on when solar plus batteries might start wiping fossil fuels off the grid.   The...Show More Summary

### We Do the Math: When Is It Worth Hiring Household Help?

How much is your happiness worth? Turns out, it may be available for a very reasonable hourly rate. A recent study shows that using money to buy yourself free time — by outsourcing household chores, for example — can lead to higher life satisfaction. Here are six common household chores...

### Cal State faculty take a stand against 'hasty' plans to loosen course requirements

Cal State faculty spoke out Tuesday about what they called “hasty” recent decisions to drop remedial classes and loosen math requirements by next fall. In a resolution by the university system’s Academic Senate, faculty members said they hadn’t been given enough time to weigh in on what could be...

### Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment

A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' self-concepts of their abilities in these two academic domains play an important role in motivating their achievements over time and across levels of achievement.

### What U.S. classrooms can learn from China's "grit" in education

Chinese-American journalist Lenora Chu moved with her family to Shanghai in 2010 where students regularly have some of the top math and reading test scores in the world. When her then-3-year-old son got into a prestigious Shanghai preschool,...Show More Summary

### Liberals, get ready to freak out: Trump could be a two-term president

Donald Trump could become a two-term president. His path to re-election is not very hard to see. Start with the fact that political math is not especially complex. In all but the most unusual presidential elections, there is little doubt about how 80% of the electorate will vote. Around 40% will...

### 5 Reasons to Fire Your Client

I like money. Clients give me money (when everything goes right). Ergo, therefore, and hopefully…clients = money, more clients = more money—I’m actually pretty terrible at math. When you first start out as a freelance designer or even agency. it can be pretty tempting to say “yes” to every single client that comes your way. […]

### Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment

Educational and developmental psychologists have tried to understand how skills and motivation are linked to academic achievement. While research supports ties between individuals' concepts of their abilities and their achievement, we lack a complete picture of how these relations develop from childhood to adolescence. Show More Summary

### Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment

(Society for Research in Child Development) A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students'...Show More Summary

### Learning strategies to encourage girls to embrace STEM

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) NJIT will lead a new project -- Leadership and iSTEAM for Females in Elementary School (LiFE) -- to find effective ways to showcase science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as a collaborative, innovative, people-rich space, to increase the number of girls interested in STEM.

### What will cost more than lifting the public sector pay cap? Not lifting it | Faiza Shaheen

The status quo is maintained at a big cost to wider society and the economy. Yet still the Tories’ dodgy maths hoodwinks far too many people The Conservatives are finally backing down on the public sector pay cap – but not without a fight, and not without confusing the maths. Show More Summary

### Math Monday: Marble Machines

Math inspiration can come from anywhere Read more on MAKE The post Math Monday: Marble Machines appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers.

### Maths Week Scotland: Update

Maths Week Scotland included lots of activity in St Andrews. The Library’s Special Collections Division was really pleased to be able to take Maths treasures out into the School of Maths […]

### Speaker Ryan’s fuzzy math on the nation’s ‘terrible tax system’

“It is a terrible tax system that was written in ’86. … The headlines write themselves: We tax our corporations at 35 percent, and successful small businesses are taxed as high as 44.6 percent. The average tax rate in the industrialized world for businesses is 22.5 percent.” — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), during an […]

### Real estate math demystified pdf

there are some that might say it’s too bad Mr. 804 billion in the third quarter of 2009; ma ne raccogliemmo altri otto per i quali gli diedi 100 dracme in conto. Ai romani va il merito di aver real estate math demystified pdf questo passo essenziale, Europa agli inizi del XIV secolo fu adoperato […]

### Mathematician: Math Is An Artistic Way Of Understanding The World

"A lot of mathematics ultimately is artistic rather than useful. Sometimes you see a picture that’s got a lot of symmetry in it, like an M.C. Escher sketch, and it’s like, 'Wow, that’s just so amazing!' But when you study mathematics, you start to “see” things in higher dimensions. You’re not necessarily visualizing them in […]

### The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever

Electricity Production is Radically Changing The age of batteries is just getting started. In the latest episode of our animated series, Sooner Than You Think, Bloomberg’s Tom Randall does the math on when solar plus batteries might start wiping fossil fuels off the grid. Show More Summary

### Fantastic Mathematics Wall Calendar For 2018

I love the The Mathematics Calendar 2018. It has an equation or other statement about math for every day, often linked to that day (like, the January 13th entry is “the sixth prime number”). Some entries are little mat quizzes for you to fugue out. Some are funny jokes, like the entry for Thanksgiving (any…