Topic: Mathematics

Being able to visualize number concepts is an important foundational skill in math. These subtraction resources can be effective teaching tools for...

Stephen Hawking’s ‘The Grand Design’

The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, Bantam Press RRP£18.99, 208 pages. . . . In The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking gives his...
Exposing children to fun, entertaining and educational software will make the transition into kindergarten easier. Software that teaches...

Duel at Dawn by Amir Alexander

Popular culture sustains two images of mathematicians: there's the comic stereotype of the nerd, socially inept, emotionally retarded, physically...
How do you get 350 fifth graders interested in science? Get them inventing toys of course. . . Students from the South Bend Community School...

GEMS pupils surpass UK counterparts

The most significant achievement is that the average for those IGCSE / GCSE students at GEMS International Schools achieving 5A*-C, including...

Innovation and Child's Play: Those Wild and Crazy Engineers

Back in the 1950s when coonskin caps and hoola hoops were all the rage, it was almost cliché to hear that children played "cowboys and Indians." As...

Links for 2010-09-03

Tom Waits | Music | Gateways To Geekery | The A.V. Club "Waits, who made his proper recording debut with 1973's Closing Time, inspires music...
The old joke is a joke no more. In a special September issue of the ASCB's online journal, CBE-Life Sciences Education, the adage that biology is...
A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson's latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice...