Q: On a 12-hour digital clock, what is the smallest interval between two times that are palindromic (can be read forwards and backwards as the same number)?
A: 2 minutes. the time from 9:59 to 10:01
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
NYT When Advanced Math Placement Is a Struggle
Is the student learning? Is she putting in effort?
These are the two top questions to ask the student and the family.
Too often, ppl rate themselves on Math by their grades.
Is she getting a C- because of exam scores? Very likely...how can she improve her scores?
She needs to evaluate the artifacts (old exams and quizzes) and figure out if she made conceptual errors (not understanding something) vs fuzzy errors (like 2 to the 3 power is 6 rather than 8!)
To prepare for an exam, she needs to practice problems over and over and over.
I have been a Math tutor for 13 years and work with ppl to get them to think on their own so they can do it when I am not there :)
Robin Schwartz BSEE MBA
www.mathconfidence.com
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/when-advanced-math-placement-is-a-struggle/#postComment
These are the two top questions to ask the student and the family.
Too often, ppl rate themselves on Math by their grades.
Is she getting a C- because of exam scores? Very likely...how can she improve her scores?
She needs to evaluate the artifacts (old exams and quizzes) and figure out if she made conceptual errors (not understanding something) vs fuzzy errors (like 2 to the 3 power is 6 rather than 8!)
To prepare for an exam, she needs to practice problems over and over and over.
I have been a Math tutor for 13 years and work with ppl to get them to think on their own so they can do it when I am not there :)
Robin Schwartz BSEE MBA
www.mathconfidence.com
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/when-advanced-math-placement-is-a-struggle/#postComment
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