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...began to elaborate on them, making their own important discoveries and innovations. Muslim mathematicians took principles developed in Greece, such as Euclid's theories of numbers and geometry, and the Indian concept of zero, as the basis for developing such new disciplines as calculus and trigonometry. Of the early math books on view, the illustrated Treatise on Geometry is significant for its author, the Muslim king of Saragossa, Spain, and its date of 1080. Similarly, Arabs absorbed the theoretical concepts of Greek medicine, adding to them the idea of scientifically monitoring patients in a special place - a hospital. One page...
...SITTERS Who needs child care? NEC's PaPeRo "personal partner" robots talk, read, sing, take orders and remember names and faces. They even do math...
...explicitly define what a general education looks like other than to highlight interdisciplinarity. At future faculty meetings, the stickiest point will be the three-by-three system—as many faculty members will likely object to a general education structure that doesn’t explicitly require math, or life sciences, or moral reasoning, or foreign cultures. But the answer is simple. If professors teach their courses well, students will come. We look forward to a new paradigm of general education, one where students are empowered with options and individual faculty are empowered with the responsibility to engage students...
...message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable," says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program, which has helped increase the students' interest in school and turned around their declining math grades. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, "parents can play a critical role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, strategy and progress rather than emphasizing their 'smartness' or praising high performance alone. Most of all, parents should let their kids know that mistakes...
...Robert P. Reardon said one of Gordon’s flyers on tax rates misled voters by misclassifying Cambridge properties and reporting inaccurately high reassessment figures as a result. The weekly Cambridge Chronicle splashed the story across its front page with the headline, “Gordon Uses Fuzzy Math...