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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-13
Learning algebra can be difficult for even the brightest of students. Furthermore, all levels of students, from junior-high school through adult, as well as many college students find it necessary to...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-13
As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering hi...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-13
If you're the parent of a student who is having a difficult time with math, you're familiar with the complaint that equations seem "pointless." Students want to know how solving equations with variab...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-13
Toddler TipsDoes your toddler appear to have a streak of your genius? Do you seek strategies to enrich your toddler's intellectual capacity?Recent research has challenged the conventional notion that...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-13
Parents often ask why their children are doing poorly in math, particularly in grades 2-6. For young children, abstract quantities can be daunting, especially when taught in the context of skill dril...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-17
Flannel shirts. Dial-up connections. "The X-Files." Nirvana and NAFTA. Baggy pants and "Seinfeld." The Bridges Of Madison County and Rent. The phrases "At the end of the day," "Generation X," and "Th...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-17
We all use math in our everyday lives. Many of us consider ourselves to be "math phobic", "math deficient" or "mathematically challenged." Perhaps we communicate these ideas to our children or perhap...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-17
If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It's only a thousand years or so.For a long time, the history of Wes...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-17
The word "rational" has all kinds of connotations - good and bad - in today's culture. Be rational, we say to people who seem unable to see reason. Or, conversely, we tell people all too skilled at u...
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by Ann Knapp - 2008-09-17
Every day, we make decisions based on what we think may, or most likely will, happen. Many of these decisions seem to be based more on wishful thinking than on logic - sure, you'll run off that extra...
