The Physics Classroom: The Review Session

Great tutorial for students needing extra help with physics.

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Home School Math

This website has everything you need from curriculum reviews, math newsletters, lessons and articles, and online math resources.

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Prediction: Facebook Will Enter the Search Market Next Year

Its quite logical - at some point FaceBook will seek to monetize even further all those eyeballs.  FaceBook pages have become very popular.  Content with in FaceBook is going to become a very powerful medium.  It has the potential to bring more relevant 'approved' (e.g. liked) content to searchers.  Somewhere deep in the bowels of Google you gotta think they are thinking about this...

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What does the military consider required reading?

As Time points out Gen. Dempsey will soon be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and be setting the tone and direction for all military operations.  You can see the full list here.  Mr. Rawlings correctly points out the multi-faceted set of challenges a military leader must face.  Its not all just nuke em to oblivion.  Its interesting to see how the military uses different books and reading to bring out and highlight the critical skills a military leader needs. 

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How to Fix Our Math Education

Good opinion piece on the trouble with Math in America's school system.  In short the piece focuses on teach math in a way that makes a connection and is useful - not all abstract and unconnected to real use.  I couldn't agree more.  Making math interesting, real and useful will help to engage in our students in math and not make it so laborious.



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Hurricanes and Physics

Physics is fascinating - so much of what goes on around is is governed and controlled by the laws of physics.  In this blog post the author talks about how physics can be used to help forecast hurricanes.  Very interesting.

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Dividing By Zero Blows Up The Universe!

I grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, escaped to Amherst for 4 years to learn Environmental Sciences at UMass, escaped back to Worcester to become a substitute teacher, and then escaped to Boston. Now I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, am just about through a Masters in Math Education from the Harvard Extension School and am teaching math full-time at South Boston High School. Life is good. No one told me as a kid that things wouldn’t be smooth yet by age 33, but I keep it pushin’.

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History of the Internet

This is a really nice article by the Internet Society that goes over the history of the Internet.  Hard to imagine life with out it - that on par with the car, electricity, medicine, the internet.

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History of Chemistry

Interestingly the first known chemist appears to be a woman from Mesopotamian. A cuneiform tablet from the second millenium B.C. mentions Tapputi who was a perfumer and palace overseer. She distilled the essence of flowers and other aromatic materials, filtered them, added water and returned them to the still several times until her concoction was complete.   Read Our Full Article.

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