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Though the team found this strong correlation between number sense and scholastic math achievement, Halberda cautions against concluding that success or failure in mathematics is genetically determined and, therefore, immutable. "There are many factors that might affect a person's performance in school mathematics," Halberda says, "What is exciting in our result is that success in formal mathematics and simple math intuitions appear to be related."

The maths behind Google highlights the relevance of maths in our daily lives and shows the vital role it has to play in industries, especially the information sector. But it must also be the most lucrative piece of maths in history, as this mathematical advance is directly responsible for much of Google's success and so the company's $4 billion dollar profit in 2007.

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This series of activities explores the mathematical and environmental aspects of population growth. How fast is the population growing? Has it always grown at this rate? Are the populations of different countries growing differently? How can we predict the population in the future? How will a growing population impact the environment? It has student activities, teachers guides....

The NSDL Middle School Portal is hosting this blog to help middle school math and science teachers find the best online resources on the web. These posts reflect the topics that are being searched for in the Middle School Portal site. We start each post with a rationale for the topic, typically connecting the topic to the national math or science standards. Each resource is hot-linked and accompanied by a brief description by which you can quickly judge whether it's a resource that is likely to be useful to you in your teaching.

dansmathcast is math knowledge for the masses, from a real math nut. each show has features, a textbook chapter, and challenge problems!

Math Mutation is a short podcast for people of all ages, where we explore fun, interesting, or just plain wierd corners of mathematics that you probably didn't hear in school.

This interactive lesson is about what real numbers are and take the learner through lesson relating to real numbers

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"The largest portion of number involvement used in soccer is estimations. However, speed and velocity can be considered, like how much force a goalkeeper should exert to get the ball away, the angle of the shot to determine the rebound, all these are demonstrated in soccer."

This tests the students ability to complete ratio tables. Standard: MATH 5 Grades: (6-8)

"One of the biggest problems is that there are so many different concepts and equations in algebra and in order to be successful you have to understand the entirety of it or you will not be able to figure out which procedure to use."

"There are numerous graphs that can be used depending on what it is that you are trying to analyze or show. Decide which type of information that you are trying to display and then it should be much easier to know which graph to use and why."

At times, you may find trouble with coordinating graph points. But, in fact, this is relatively easy to do. When you go to higher classes, graph coordination plays a vital role in scoring good marks. Thus, you need to be thorough in coordinating graphs.

Features 10 order pair plot problems. Standard: Math 3 Grades: (3-5)

"If you walk down the aisles of your local mall you probably would get a third of the way there without coming in contact into a fraction in some way. After all, that walk down the aisle is a fraction: 1/3. Yes, we use fractions in one way or another in everyday life even though we may not completely realize it."

If you completely understand the concept of a ratio, you will see how far off you are. This tip serves as a quick tutorial on the subject of ratios and fractions.