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I Can Get Your Kid into an Ivy League School

2007-10-15T08:11:00.000-07:00

Michele Hernandez boasts that 95% of her teenage clients are accepted by their first-choice school. Her price: As much as $40,000 a student.

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Math Makeover: State Requirements Could Change Local Teaching Methods

2007-09-30T20:21:00.000-07:00

Bushaw and Pat Herzig, a math teacher on special assignment with upper grades in the Bremerton district, both said that the early instruction doesn't need to solely come from the classroom. Parent involvement and encouragement, even in simple ways, can be effective.

Herzig said that just as children need to be read to so that they'll become adept readers, children also need to be "mathed to."

"Parents can play games where the student keeps score, find math in the kitchen and garage, and on shopping trips," Herzig said. "Never say, 'I was bad at math.'"

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Getting kids excited about math

2007-09-11T21:37:00.000-07:00

Count da Money is ironing his cape; the MAC-Ro Queen is polishing her crown; and the Calculating Cowboy is saddling his horse. What are these costumed school superintendents preparing for?

A new school year with another chance to get their students excited about learning math.

This all-out enthusiasm from school administrators is just one step in their districts' commitment to the Math Achievement Club by Rodel (MAC-Ro). MAC-Ro is an initiative of the Rodel Foundation of Arizona that employs a fun and motivating way for elementary students to learn math. More than 24,000 Arizona students in seven counties will participate in MAC-Ro this year

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N. Canton educator named Haywood County's top math teacher

2007-09-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

CANTON - The North Carolina Council for Teachers of Mathematics recently named North Canton Elementary School teacher Jill Mann as Haywood County Schools Elementary Math Teacher of the Year.

Mann was nominated for the award by the principal and staff of North Canton Elementary. She will be honored at a luncheon at the annual NCCTM conference in October in Greensboro.

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Math Wonder - Danica McKellar Is Counting on Girls to Love Numbers

2007-07-02T16:38:00.000-07:00

“Who did I think math was for, if it wasn't for me?”

To help girls struggling with the complexity that comes with seventh-grade math, McKellar has penned Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, which hits shelves this August.

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Fifth grade Math Masters

2007-06-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

Sarah has a 6th floor apartment in a building that does not have an elevator. There are 16 stairs between each floor and the entrance to the building is on the first floor. On Tuesday, Sarah left her apartment, went to work, came home from work to put her coat in her apartment, and then went down to the third floor to visit a friend. She went back to her apartment for the rest of the evening. How many stairs up and down did Sarah take in her apartment building on Tuesday?

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Math problems hurt your head? To this whiz kid, they're play

2007-06-12T07:00:00.000-07:00

"I was always fascinated with recognizing patterns and playing with numbers since I can remember," says Elizabeth, who hints that a career in mathematics or linguistics might be on her horizon. "My favorite classes at Voyagers are obviously math, and it's that mathematical part of language that has me interested in linguistics so much."

Even as a toddler, she demonstrated a mathematical curiosity far beyond her years. Her mother, Laura Yaker, a Dartmouth College-trained computer scientist, recalls observing Elizabeth playing with manipulative blocks, commonly used in math education, with obvious delight at age 2.

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Educational games

2007-06-07T07:12:00.000-07:00

INEW has just added a collection of educational games like Sudoku, 24 Puzzle, Hangaroo, Frog Mania, Mastermind, Wuzi Chess, Auqaphobic, Perfect Match, Blooming Gardens, Bad Apple, Spark Your Neurons, Puzzled Jigsaw, Slider Mania, Cubic Rubic, Rush Hour, 3D Logic, and many more.

Please visit INEW Educational Games section. Enjoy!

Spelling & Math

2007-06-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

Achievement: O'Shea, 11, won the Houghton Mifflin Spelling Bee for grades four, five and six cosponsored by the Houghton Mifflin Co. and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

O'Shea outlasted about 30 of the region's best spellers at the finals April 20 at Stella Maris Parish School in Philadelphia. He also is ranked as one of the top five fifth graders in the country in the "First in Math" online competition.

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Can you solve Rubik's Cube in less than 14 seconds?

2007-06-04T15:20:00.000-07:00

Then you should head to the U.S. Rubik's Cube Open in Chicago

"I believe anybody can solve it. Believing you have to be some kind of genius is a stereotype that came out of the '80s."

More important than smarts, he said, is a willingness to practice.

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Spelling bee champ is a math whiz too

2007-06-04T15:13:00.000-07:00

Evan M. O'Dorney, 13, of San Ramon, Ca., accepts his trophy from Kenneth W. Lowe, president of the E.W. Scripps Company, after he won the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington with the word "serrefine" on Thursday, May 31, 2007.

"My favorite things to do were math and music, and with the math I really like the way the numbers fit together," he said. "And with the music I like to let out ideas by composing notes — and the spelling is just a bunch of memorization."

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Dividing the horses

2006-04-28T10:18:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

Once there lived a farmer, his wife, and their three sons. When the farmer died, his will said that the eldest son was to receive one-half of what he owned, the middle son was to receive one-third, and the youngest son was to receive one-ninth. All the farmer owned, however was seventeen horses. And try as they might, the three sons could not figure out any way to divide the seventeen horses by their father’s wishes.
Their mother however, went to the neighboring farm and borrowed a horse. Then with a total of eighteen horses, she gave the eldest son one-half, or nine horses. She gave the middle son one-third or six of the horses. And she gave the youngest son one-ninth, or two of the horses. She returned the last horse to their neighbor.
Nine plus six plus two makes the seventeen horses their father left them. How did she do it?

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Numbers and Operators & Distance of two towns

2006-04-28T10:15:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

(1) Numbers and Operators
Use digit 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 once and insert simple arithmetic symbols to add up to 1.

(2) Distance of two towns
Two boats go up and down the river between two towns. They have the same two constant speeds: a high speed going down-stream and a low speed going upstream.
The first boat leaves town A as the second boat leaves town N. They pass each other 7 miles from town A; they stop 4 minutes each at their destinations; they start back and pass each other the second time at 9 miles from town A.
What is the distance between the towns?

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Grade 6 Word Problem – Sequences & Numbers and Operators

2006-04-28T09:47:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

(1)
12, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, __ , __ , __ , __ ,
Continue the sequences above.

(2)

Rearrange the above numbers so that the four propositions pictured are correct. (There are 3 horizontal equations and one vertical equation)

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Find the number & Profit and Loss

2006-04-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

(1) Find the number
What number, between 1 and 10, when divided by 4, yields the same answer as when you subtract 4 from it?
(Hint: This strange number is not a whole number)

(2) Profit and Loss
When Calvin Collectible opened his Antiques Shoppe some 20 years ago, these two statuettes were proudly displayed in the front window. Up until last week, they were still there. Then in two days, he sold the first one for $198 and made a 10 percent profit on it, and then sold the second one for $198 and took a 10 percent loss on it. Taken together, did Calvin make profit on the two sales or did he sustain a loss?

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Find the shortcut & As easy as a pi

2006-04-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

(1) Find the shortcut
We know that 5³ = 125 and 6³ = 216.
With this in mind, suppose you were told that the number 148,877 is the cube of some other whole number. What would that other number be? (Don’t use a calculator to do this problem: Once you find the right track, it’s simpler that it first appears. It doesn’t look simple, though, does it?)

(2) As easy as a pi
In the diagram bellow, which shaded region is bigger? (The side of the other square on the left is the same with the square on the left)

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At a Cattle Market

2006-04-28T09:43:00.001-07:00

Enrichment problem

Three countrymen met at a cattle market. “Look here,” said Hodge to jakes. “I’ll give you six of my pigs for one of your horses, and then you’ll have twice as many animals here as I’ve got.” “If that’s your way of doing business,” said Durrant to Hodge, “I’ll give you fourteen of my sheep for a horse, and then you’ll have three times as many animals as I.” “Well, I’ll go better than that,” said Jakes to Durrant; “I’ll give you four cows for a horse, and then you’ll have six times as many animals as I’ve got here.
No doubt this was a very primitive way of bartering animals, but it is an interesting little puzzle to discover just how many animals Jakes, Hodge and Durrant must have taken to the cattle market.

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Moving 3 piles of matches

2006-04-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

Place three piles of matches on a table, one with 11 matches, the second with 7, and the third with 6. You are to move matches so that each pile holds 8 matches. You may add to any pile only as many matches as it already contains, and all the matches must come from one other pile. For example, if a pile holds 6 matches, you may add 6 to it, no more or less. You have 3 moves.

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A tricky river crossing

2006-04-28T09:27:00.000-07:00

Enrichment problem

This is a very old puzzle. It tells of a showman traveling the countryside on tour with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage. He comes to a river bank and the only means of getting accosts is a small boat which can hold him with only one of the wolf, the goat or the cabbage. Unfortunately he dare not leave the wolf alone with the goat or the goat alone with the cabbage for the wolf would eat the goat and goat would eat the cabbage. After some thought the showman realized that he could use the boat to transport himself and all his belongings safely across the river. How did he do it?

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Going to Coney Island

2006-04-28T09:26:00.000-07:00

Ian and Adam wanted to go to Coney Island and were trying to figure out the fastest way to get there. Ian wanted to take the subway, but Adam noted that the subway only gets halfway to Coney Island and then you have to walk the rest of the way. Adam said that the fastest way to get there would be by bicycle, but Ian still felt the subway would be faster. So Adam hopped on his bicycle and Ian took the subway.
The Subway was four times as fast as Adam on his bicycle, but Adam was twice as fast as Ian’s walking speed.
Who got to Coney Island first?

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Multiplying whole numbers

2006-04-28T09:24:00.001-07:00

Enrichment problem

Place the digits 1 through 9 in the space bellow to complete the equation. (Hint: the digits 1 through 9 appear on each side of the equal sign)
_ 2 _ 4 _ 8 _ _ x 6 = _ _ _ 2 8 _ _ 4 6

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Numbers, Multiplications and Percentages

2006-04-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

(1)
If a man weight 75% of his own weight plus 39 lbs, how much does he weight?

(2)
Multiply by 5 the number of times that an even numbers is immediately followed by an odd number in the list below.
38592768954173421978
What is the answer?

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Estimating Sums & Differences

2006-04-27T10:48:00.000-07:00

(1)
When two whole numbers are each rounded to the nearest ten, the sum is 80. One of the addends is the greatest number that rounds to 30. The second addend is the least number it can be.
What is the sum of the two numbers?

(2)
Rounded to the nearest hundred, the sum of two numbers is 11,000. Each addend is the greatest number it can be. One addend has 4 digits and the other has 3 digits.
What are the numbers?

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Factors, fractions and percentages

2006-04-27T10:46:00.000-07:00

(1)
My house number is the lowest on the street that when divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, will always leave a remainder of 1. However, when divided by 11 there is no remainder. What is my house number?

(2)
The average of three numbers is 17. The average of two of these numbers is 25. What is the third number?

(3)
A statue is being carved by a sculptor. The original piece of marble weights 140 lb. On the first week 35% is cut away. On the second week the sculptor chips off 26 lb and on the third week he chips off two-fifth of the remainder, which complete statue. What is the weight of the final statue?

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Additions and subtractions

2006-04-27T10:37:00.000-07:00

(1)
Shawn has 440 basketball cards so far. By the end of the months, he wants to own a total of 500.
The cards come in packs of 5. The first week of the month, he bought 4 packs of cards. The second week, he bought 3 packs. He bought 2 packs during the third week and 2 packs during the fourth week.
Did he reach his goal of 500 cards?

(2)
Alexa, Barker, and Crystal entered a charity walkathon. Their sponsors agreed to give $1.00 for each mile they walked.
Alexa had 10 sponsors, and she walked 4 miles. Barker had 12 sponsors, and he walked the same distance as Alexa. Crystal had 20 sponsors, and she walked 1 more mile than Alexa.How much money did the 3 walkers raise all together?

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