[CPS Math]Move over Deep Blue, Eliza's Next

2001-06-14 Thread Jerry Becker
Title: Move over Deep Blue, Eliza's Next From USA Today, Friday, April 27, 2001, Section B [Money], p. B1. See http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/ Move over, Deep Blue, Eliza's next IBM plans computer smart enough to be

Re: [CPS Math]scientific notation

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Lach
On 6/14/01 10:07 AM, "Marty Gartzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Laura Grandau suggested in her earlier post, problems that involve > real contexts are often more interesting and meaningful to students > than plain problems. She gave some nice examples of big numbers in > the "real world" t

[CPS Math]PART II: A Year in the Life of a Beginning Teacher

2001-06-14 Thread Jerry Becker
* From Newsweek [Society], June 4, 2001, pp. 43-44. See http://www.msnbc.com/news/578831.asp -- More than 20 percent of new teachers leave the profession in the first three years; after five years, more than a third have gone o

Re: [CPS Math]scientific notation

2001-06-14 Thread Marty Gartzman
>Great examples of huge numbers that you can use in connection to scientific >notation are: >-space science, size of the universe, etc. >-our country's annual federal budget >-population of the world >-possible combinations of numbers chosen in a state lottery >-cells in the human body A scientif