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Building a better math teacher: Math professor considers new ways to use what we already know

For years, it has been assumed that teachers -- specifically math teachers -- need to master the content they intend to teach. And the best way to do this is to take courses beyond that content.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Top designers in your own home?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A web tool that analyses sales and design data from European home textile producers, distributors and retailers is boosting product development - and industry competitiveness.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Tendency of operational routines to falter is widespread but fixable

New research by a University of Illinois expert who studies process management points to the potential role of regulatory oversight in preventing deterioration of operational routines that are used to complete day-to-day ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created 23 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New means of safeguarding world fish stocks proven

Powerful and versatile new genetic tools that will assist in safeguarding both European fish stocks and European consumers is reported in Nature Communications. The paper reports on the first system proven to identify popula ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

America expands once again -- digitally, this time

(AP) -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual ...

Technology / Other

created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE 'smart machine'

Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students.

Technology / Other

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marine scientists urge government to reassess oil spill response

On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, a national panel of researchers including University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye is urging the federal government to reassess how it ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

World scientists define united approach to tackling food insecurity

Nearly one billion people in the world are undernourished, while millions suffer from chronic disease due to excess food consumption. Global demand is growing for agricultural products and food prices are rising, yet roughly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Why we've got the cosmological constant all wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some scientists call the cosmological constant the "worst prediction of physics." And when today’s theories give an estimated value that is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 152 | with audio podcast feature

Time for a rethink on climate change, say top environmental economists

Governments have done so little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they should consider investing into the Rand D of large scale geo-engineering projects and their governance, according to 26 of the world’s leading ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 21

Southwest pueblo-dwellers key to modern climate policy?

Vulnerability to climate change presents policy challenges to local, state, regional, national and international entities, particularly at a time when the public and policy-makers still struggle conceptually with the complexities ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Viewing the world through a 'mathematical lens' can help young children learn math

(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching children mathematics at a young age may be as simple as helping them see how math is all around them.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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