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 […]
I Love My Kids, But I Never Got Around To Saving For Their College – Now They Are In High School
I always thought about starting a college fund. I even set up a small savings account when they were born. Now they are in high school, time is running out and I am starting to panic. What can I do? Where should I start? Are they going to hate me? […]
Dear Class of 2020 – An Open Letter to Graduates
Dear Class of 2020: I’ve seen the Facebook challenge to post our senior pictures in support of you, but honestly don’t see how that will comfort you. To me, it seems the exact opposite. It feels like we’re putting it in your face that we got to have this experience, […]
Can You Homeschool Your Child and Still Work Full Time?
In today society the majority of families are dual income earners. Someone that wants to switch their children from public school or home school may shy away from the idea simply because they currently work at full-time job. Although it may be a difficult task it is certainly one that […]
Renaissance Science and Botticelli’s Hidden Code
In 1462 Cosimo Medici established the rebirth of the outlawed Platonic Academy in Florence and appointed Marsilio Ficino as its founder. Ficino’s fundamental concept, derived from Plato’s geometry, was about the existence of eternal wisdom of the immortal soul being central to the functioning of the universe. The only geometrical […]
An Interesting Introduction to Psychology – Minority Identity Development
The Minority Identity Development Model distinguishes between 5 stages that people experience as they attempt to understand themselves in terms of their own culture, the dominant culture, and the oppressive relationship between the two cultures. In the conformity stage of minority development, a person prefers the dominant cultural values; the […]
Free College Money – Secrets For Finding and Getting It
If the only thing stopping you from going to college is the price tag, you have come to the right place. College costs can be very scary. However, very few people actually pay the full sticker price for college. The only people who pay full price for college are the ones who do […]
Home Schooling Six to Eight Year Olds
Whether a child has been to an institutionalized school or has been home schooled forever, many six to eight year olds enjoy learning. As a parent, understanding how your child learns, which temperament is their strongest, and what type of intelligence they excel in will greatly assist in the teaching/learning […]
Calculus – Derivatives
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 the Language Spanish the Right Way
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 […]