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...Spears. Federline was hired by Virgin Mobile to spearhead its Save the Penny campaign. The British company's promotion exploits the U.S. debate to sell a deal in which text messages cost a penny, since you get 1,000 a month for $9.99 (Virgin has a little trouble with math). Last month Federline, standing next to an armored truck collecting pennies for charity in Times Square, yelled, "Man, I feel good about the penny!" In addition to math problems, Virgin has spokesman-choosing issues...
...excruciating period. His marriage to Mileva Maric, an intense and brooding Serbian physicist who had helped him with the math of his 1905 paper, had just exploded. She had left him in Berlin and moved to Zurich with their sons Hans Albert, 11, and Eduard, 5. Suffering from acute stomach pains exacerbated by the food shortages of World War I, he was being nursed by a first cousin, Elsa Einstein, whom he would eventually marry...
Einstein wanted to be with his son to teach him math, but that would not always be possible, he lamented. Perhaps they could do it by mail? "If you write me each time what you already know, I'll give you a nice little problem to solve." He sent a toy for each of his sons, along with an admonition to brush their teeth well. "I do the same and am very happy now to have kept enough healthy teeth...
...Massachusetts offers a rare case where the percentages of children deemed proficient in reading and math [are] within 10 percentage points of the shares estimated from NAEP results,” the study said...
...between the NAEP and MCAS reading tests was small compared to other states. And more Bay State students actually passed the NAEP math test than the MCAS one—of the 12 states analyzed in the study, Massachusetts was the only one to employ a test shown to be harder than the national...