Year Round School: An Annual Mistake
.... must be paid, as
they are the cornerstone of education. Also, it takes additional funds to run
the school all year, due to things such as air conditioning in the summer (White
28). Many schools due not currently need AC systems to be used. However, AC is
a costly amenity and if schools are held open three additional months, AC
becomes a heavy factor. Not to mention, the level of supplies and paper that is
consumed would be more than 33% larger (Sardo- Brown 26). Costs per school for
items, such as paper, increase due to constant use. (White 29). Students would
be deprived of such simple items such as worksheets or class .....
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Parking Deck Project Of University ______________
.... parking spaces.
1996 Enrollment ........................ 4,960
Students Per Parking Space......... / 1.8 (Divided by)
Recommended Parking Spaces... = 2,756
Recommended Parking Spaces.. 2,756
Current Parking Spaces.............. - 2,303 (Minus)
Shortage of Parking Spaces...... = 453
The number of Students Per Parking Space ( 1.8 ) is based on a national average
of University parking. This formula shows that the University is currently
deficient 453 parking spaces.
The existing parking areas are positioned at various locat .....
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Why Sex Education Should Be Taught In Schools
.... influence on my
decisions about sex as well as many other teens. Parents and other teens can
give out wrong information about sex that can give a false scene of security,
which can lead to a unwanted pregnancy or STD. Sex education must be taught in
schools so, student get the right information.
Most parents fell that the best place for sex education is in the home.
The parents can teach their children family and religious values. Teacher Mary
L. Tatum says, Schools do a better job influence children and have more time to
try to influence children better that anyone except, perhaps, the parents. It
is important that parents gi .....
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Students Rights In The Public School System
.... case is the case TINKER Vs DES MOINES where two students wanted to
protest the war by wearing arm bands. When the school officials saw what the
two students were wearing the teachers demanded that the students take the arm
bands off at once. The case got all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court said that the students had a right to wear arm bands just as
long as they wernt going to harm themselvs or any one elts. Just a coupple of
laws on students rights. The First Amendment says that you have a right to
freedom of speech, press, religion, and freedon to a peaceful assembly. The
Second Amendment says .....
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Uniforms In School
.... new friends for the new student since the uniforms will
help the new student feel a sense of "belonging". This helps the majority of
the school becoming friends with each other. This obviously helps the class
and also the school as a whole, as there will be less fights and controversy
between students.
Uniforms will build a sense of unity within the school. The students
will feel they are a part of one whole team charging toward their ultimate goal:
graduation and college. The sense of unity will bring more fans and support
for sports events and help the school financially. There will also be less
fights and riot .....
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Ancient Advances In Mathematics
.... Since those first sounds were created, man has only added five new basic
number-sounds to the ten primary ones. They are “hundred,” “thousand,” “
million,” “billion” (a thousand millions in America, a million millions in
England), “trillion” (a million millions in America, a million-million millions
in England). Because primitive man invented the same number of number-sounds as
he had fingers, our number system is a decimal one, or a scale based on ten,
consisting of limitless repetitions of the first ten number sounds.
Undoubtedly, if nature had given man thirteen fingers instead of ten,
our number system would be m .....
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Calculus
.... sequences, integral functions, and multivariate
calculus.
Some believe that calculus is too hard or impossible to learn without much
memorization but if you think that calculus is all memorizing then you will not
get the object of learning calculus. People say that calculus is just the
revision or expansion of old or basic equations and I believe that also.
In economics and business there are some uses for calculus. One important
application of integral calculus in business is the evaluation of the area under
a function. This can be used in a probability model. Probability is another
uses in integral calculus .....
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Euclidean Geometry
.... proof from a bad one may easily be
persuaded in the wrong direction. Geometry provides a simplified universe, where
points and lines obey believable rules and where conclusions are easily verified.
By first studying how to reason in this simplified universe, people can
eventually, through practice and experience, learn how to reason in a
complicated world.
Geometry in ancient times was recognized as part of everyone's education.
Early Greek philosophers asked that no one come to their schools who had not
learned the 'Elements' of Euclid. There were, and still are, many who resisted
this kind of education. It is said that Ptolem .....
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Fibonacci Numbers
.... Some of them were Practica geometriae in 1220 and Liber quadratorum in
1225.
The Fibonacci sequence is also used in the Pascal trianle. The sum of
each diagnal row is a fibonacci number. They are also in the right sequence:
1,1,2,5,8.........
Fibonacci sequence has been a big factor in many patterns of things in
nature. One has found that the fractions u/v representing the screw-like
arrangement of leaves quite often are members of the fibonacci sequence. On many
plants, the number of petals is a Fibonacci number: buttercups have 5 petals;
lilies and iris have 3 petals; some delphiniums have 8; corn marigolds hav .....
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Fractal Geometry
.... and
science - the physical, the abstract, and the natural.
We were all astounded by the sudden revelation that the output of a
very simple, two-line generating formula does not have to be a dry and
cold abstraction. When the output was what is now called a fractal,
no one called it artificial... Fractals suddenly broadened the realm
in which understanding can be based on a plain physical basis.
(McGuire, Foreword by Benoit Mandelbrot)
A fractal is a geometric shape that is complex and detailed at every level of
magnification, as well as self-similar. Self-s .....
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Gods Gift To Calculators: The Taylor Series
.... of the graph (0,f(0)). So f(0)=ao.
Next, we see that the graph of f1(x)= a0 + a1x will also pass through x=
0, and will have the same slope as f(x) if we let a0=f1(0).
Now, if we want to get a better polynomial approximation for this
function, which we do of course, we must make a few generalizations. First, we
let the polynomial fn(x)= a0 + a1x + a2x2 + ... + anxn approximate f(x) near x=0,
and let this functions first n derivatives match the the derivatives of f(x) at
x=0. So if we want to make the derivatives of fn(x) equal to f(x) at x=0, we
have to chose the coefficients a0 through an properly. How do we do t .....
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Problem Solving
.... to help you solve the problem is to draw a picture.
One example of this strategy is suppose you received a problem asking you how
many diagonals a heptagon has. The plan is very obvious. Draw a heptagon and
then draw its diagonals.
Another strategy is trial and error. Trial and error is a problem
solving strategy that everybody uses at one time or another. In trial and error,
you try an answer. If the answer is an error, you try something else. You keep
trying until you get the correct answer.This is a good strategy to use if the
problem only has a few possible answers.
Another good problem solving strategy is to make a table. So .....
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