While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...
A tribunal has upheld the sacking of a scrapyard manager who denied calling a junior female employee the C-word and insisted he only went as far as spelling the word out as office “banter”. “Do you ...
Abstract: This paper presents a relation-centric solver for text-diagram function problems mainly studied in the secondary school, which aims to be the core solver for future intelligent tutoring ...
A new study publishing in Current Biology on September 18 reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels to entirely new objects, not because ...
In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...
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Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...
“I am a pragmatist, not a dogmatist,” says Thomas Clifton Mann, “and I am not a miracle worker.” Mann, 51, will need all of his pragmatism and may even have to work a few miracles if he is to succeed ...
ABSTRACT: Based on theorems, the Atomic AString Functions theory, evolving since the 1970s, is introduced into Quantum Mechanics to represent a wave function via the shifts and stretches of smooth ...