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The Clock Starts Ticking Starting tomorrow morning, you’re going to practice English, Spanish, French or other foreign language. For the following 6 days, for 8 hours per day, you’ll work on grammar, pronunciation, watch videos and listen to audio materials. You’ll write short notes, grocery lists and play games in […]

Researchers at University of California Berkeley and Bard College have recently taken a deeper look at how language impacts psychological development in children. In the July issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, Stephen Chen and Qing Zhou from Berkeley and Morgan Kennedy from Bard draw on psychology and linguistics to […]

In my first year as head of Mathematics, a couple of my older staff members felt that some of the less experience Mathematics teachers were marking assessment items “easy”, giving their students better marks than they should receive. This raised issues for students competing for university places particularly in the […]

Derivative is the central concept of Calculus and is known for its numerous applications to higher Mathematics. The derivative of a function at a point can be described in two different ways: geometrical and physical. Geometrically, the derivative of a function at a certain value of its input variable is […]

Learning a language, Spanish included, can be very easy if you follow the right steps. The problem is — most people try to learn languages the absolute wrong way! They spend years of their time learning Spanish ineffectively, when with the right principals, they could spend only two months and […]

Sniffing, then squinting and holding up a Kiwi fruit a Chinese student muttered something I wasn’t sure I wanted to have translated. A classmate from Brazil leaned over, pointing to a photo in a picture dictionary. Two Korean ladies giggled, their hands covering their mouths. The lesson on food was […]

Would you like to see a nifty example of the way in which the world of mathematics can have unexpected ramifications on the world? You may be aware of the role that the special numbers e=2.718… , pi=3.14… , and the golden ratio Phi=1.618… , have in our world. It […]

There is no denying the fact that languages are the integral part of the cultural richness of our society and the world in which we try to lead our lives controlled and cleanly. It is significant that learning languages contributes to mutual understanding, a sense of global citizenship and personal […]

A 9 X9 SUDOKU puzzle has the following rules. Every row and column should have the numbers between 1 and 9 and each of the inner boxes should have the numbers between 1 and 9. Each number in every column and row and in every small box should occur only […]

The greatest reality of life is probably the transient nature of it – the people we love, the possessions we so adore, and just about everything close to us. This ephemeral nature of life is what all religions are based on. Religions not only just establish and accept this fact, […]