Mathematics Workshop: Mathematics Class Becomes Learner-Centered is a well-written article about using math workshops as a tool to facilitate mathematical learning in elementary classrooms. It argues that writing workshops, in which students are given freedom with time and materials to develop their...

We could not be where we are today if great minds like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton didn\'t exist. These individuals helped create who and what we are today. Without their help our world would be a far more primitive one. These incredible people are said to have a gift, which few could only d...

Anxiety is a common psychiatric disorder that affects the functioning of a significant number of individuals in the United States within their lifetime. The National Institute of Mental Health reports more than 19 million adult Americans ages 18 to 54 have anxiety disorders (NIH, 2001). For these ...

Math is one of the basic sciences of life; it can be said that is the most basic science, the first thing a person learns, apart from reading and writing, is how to add and subtract. I like mathematics because every time I solve a math problem it becomes an important challenge to me, a c...

There is no best way to learn. Everyone learns differently, and because of this, the best way to learn is the way you learn. A learning style is a certain way that the mind receives and processes new information. There are many different approaches to learning, but the three main styles are visual, ...

Nowadays, nearly all people research their brain preferences, intelligences and learning styles to describe themselves, the techniques, which have been emposed themselves in education life, are affective or not and how can they be language learners. In addition, I think about myself. ...

\"A Beautiful Mind\" was directed by Ron Howard and was produced in the year ____. The movie received four Academy Awards and Best Picture. The movie is based on the true story of John Forbes Nash Jr., which is played by Russell Crowe, who was a great mathematician who had schizophrenia. This movie ...

Introduction According to the work of Helen Patrick, et al entitled: "How Teachers Establish Psychological Environment During the First Days of School: Avoidance in Mathematics" that: "Observations of the first days of school in eight sixth-grade classrooms identified three different classroom en...

As a student of the University of Phoenix I have laid out a few personal goals for myself to achieve. I divided my goals into two categories, long-term goals and short-term goals. My short term goals are to develop essential skills such as research skills, written communication skills, personal ...

Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is a story of a young man's struggle to transcend his childhood, to discover his place in the world, and to achieve intimacy with others. The main character, Will, is a tough and gifted orphan from Boston's South Side who prefers to spend his days hanging out...

For years, prescriptive, teacher-oriented, objectivist classrooms have endured as a mainstay of the American educational enterprise. Research in the past two decades has created a climatic change in education. Piagetian Constructism, the construction of disseminated knowledge into a learner, has ...

I often see strangers on the train, sidewalk, and other public places rambling to themselves, throwing their hands around, or screaming about alien abduction. As I pass them by I think to myself, "What is wrong with him, is that man ill?" After I took this class I realized, yes, many of these people...

MUSIC OF THE MINDS Take a few minutes to reflect on your childhood days in school. Did you sing in the choir or play in the band? If so, do you remember the days of learning your scales by singing "Do Re Mi"? Do you recall your first Christmas concert? Do you remember your foot tappi...

My Story of Revenge "Revenge is the dish best served cold," as they say. It's simple, but true. You have to wait to make the best revenge scenario possible. To fully feel the revenge you have to live with it for some time. You have to think of the very best options and choose t...

Early in meditations, Descartes says that no clear mark distinguishes dreaming from waking. "But in thinking over this, I remind myself that on many occasions, I have in sleep been deceived by similar illusions, and in dwelling carefully on this reflection I see no manifestly that there are ...

Being Like Faustus Dr. Faustus "The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, the devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. O I'll leap up to my God who pulls me down? See, See, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament, one drop would save my soul, half a drop...

The idea of using a song composing assignment to promote learning and greater subject matter retention in elementary school students does not seem to be the best possible use of the underlying educational theories referenced in the article Science Rocks! A Performance Assessment for Eart...

John Locke once said, "I am thus a clean slate eagerly awaiting to be written upon, an impressionable sponge ready to feast on rational knowledge (1)." This quote shows the basis of his philosophy on the human mind at birth. John Locke uses the term "Tabula Rasa" which is a Latin...

IS THE BRAIN IS SIMPLY A COMPUTER MADE OF MEAT? The brain is simply a computer made out of meat. First and foremost, what is a brain, and what is a computer? Chambers dictionary (Chambers 21st century dictionary, 1999) defines the brain as \"a highly developed mass of nervous tissue that coordinat...

Descartes' Method of Doubt "I think, therefore I am" (32) is the principle in which Descartes uses to build any foundation for the ideas in his meditations. The human being is in essence a thinking thing in which the mind has the ability to deceive a person. He may in his youth hav...

Meno\'s paradox is an argument in the form of a question. As it is written, Meno asks, \"How will you look for something when you don\'t know what it is.. or even if you come right upon it, how will you know that what you have found is the thing that you didn\'t know?\" Socrates states it more simpl...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. This is one of the most profound philosophical statements ever made. Aristotle was influenced by the short upbringing of his parents, particularly that of his father, who died when he was only ten years old. His father was a doctor. Aristotle was ra...

Plato's educational system is based on an ideal aristocratic society. According to Garth Kemerling's website, www.philosophypages.com (2002), Plato's aristocratic government is one that is ideally efficient. Under such a society, its guardians, the potential leaders of society, are &q...

The Pantheon is a great building of a Roman empire. It was built in the time of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and rebuilt in the time of Emperor Hadrian. Hadrian was a great admirer of Greek culture, especially of its Hellenistic period. In the time of Hellenism, Greek culture reached the peak of reali...

The Underground Man is a man of consciousness for he thinks but never does. He is undefined for he has no and does not want any identity. He analyzes life from his own corner, he is a critic he watches but never does. No matter what he may know he would never interfere in the life process. He hides ...