Search Details

Word: mathes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Rose, who teaches humanities. "I mean, CD drives were popping out, the plugs were not working, there were battery problems. It wasn't software; it was really basic stuff." It also didn't help that these computers were being used by a bunch of energetic young adolescents. As Packer math teacher George Turner puts it, "There is no harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going to base your lesson plan on the computers, have a backup plan. If you don't, when one kid's laptop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old School, New Tricks | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...never been involved in a campaign,” Stone says. “I mean, I study physics and math, I’m not a politician, and I didn’t really know anything about how these things work...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DeBergalis Runs for City Council on Student Platform | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Gienapp’s wife, Erica, said that he developed his passion for history as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley after taking a class on the Civil War taught by Ken Stamp. Up to that point he had been a physics and math major...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family, Colleagues Remember Historian | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...what are we learning today? Numbers,” he says emphatically to the group of six-year olds squirming around him. “And math...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School’s in for Summers | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

...elite reaches of the 700s--or in the more average environs of the low 600s. There are two reasons for the writing test's imprecision: first, the multiple-choice component of the test will be just 20 to 30 minutes, compared with 70 minutes each for math and reading. Less time means fewer questions, and it's harder to wring out measurement error with a small number of items. (Think about it this way: if you taste only one dish served by a chef, you can't judge him with as much precision as if you eat everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside The New SAT | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

Previous | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | Next