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ESL and TEFL: Teaching Children Grammar through Games 0

Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized

One of the questions ESL and TEFL teachers are asking on forums the world over is: how can you teach grammar through games?

If you don’t want your class to glaze over with dictation, writing exercises and “Jimmy, would you please read paragraph 1,” then take heart! You’ll find you can teach everything you want with games, and the children remember it better to boot.

Here is a disarmingly simple game, which can be used for many purposes. Please note this particular game is for small groups of up to 20 children or so, and you need floor space. If you have more than 20 children, or no floor space then please see the bottom of the article for games suited to your needs.

The players stand round in a circle with one player standing in the middle. Each player has a picture of an item, or a word flash card, except for the player in the middle. Call out two of the picture card items or words. The two players holding these cards have to change places without the person in the middle grabbing one of their spots. If the person in the middle manages to slip into the spot in the circle then the one left standing goes in the middle. The new person in the middle hands their flash card to the child taking their place in the circle.

If someone is stuck in the middle for two turns say, “All Change!” When the players hear this they must all change places, which gives the person in the middle a very good chance of joining the circle. Once everyone has had one go ask your class to pass their picture to the right, and take the one handed to them from the left. You can give them another go with the new picture.

Notice that only 2 children move at any one time (aside from when you say “All Change), which makes it easy to keep control.

How could you use this game in your language teaching? Firstly, you can use it to reinforce new vocabulary, secondly, for revision, thirdly to help spelling by playing the game with word flashcards instead of pictures, and fourthly, to practise a grammatical structure.

Let us say you want to teach the conditional tense and you start with “I would like”. Hand out pictures of food that your pupils already know. Call out “I would like bananas and pie”. The pupil with the bananas tries to change places with the pupil holding the pie without the person in the middle taking one of the spots in the circle. Continue until everyone has had a go, repeating the target structure each time. With a class that learns quickly you can also introduce the rest of the declension (he and she would like, etc.). You are now ready to proceed to a speaking game where your pupils use the target structure, as they will have heard it repeatedly by now. You can follow the speaking game up with a writing game, and hey presto your children can understand, say, read and write the new target structure.

Now what better way is there to teach grammar than that? You are teaching grammar by absorption and repetition, which is the way we learn our native tongue, and for children it is by far the best way to go.

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My First Encounter with an Online Psychic 0

Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized

This was a first for me, but just the other day I had my first online psychic reading, and I have to be honest and say that I was not all that thrilled with what I heard. Sure, the online psychic somehow knew my name and my birthday, and my astrological sign, I guess the psychic had a 1 in 12 shot at that, but I had filling up education page and probably was the source of information.

I gave serious consideration to lying about my information to put the online psychic to the test to see if they actually had a clue as to what he or she (I later found out it was a woman) was talking about, but what I decided to offer my true information. After all, if I had the power to read minds and see the future, I hope waste my time with people that doubted me. Anyone testing me, I would probably allow to go away smugly believing that they exposed me and were quite clever and their own right, and therefore themselves be unable to benefit from the fruits of my awesome power. But on the other hand, if I had if I could see the future and read people’s minds I most assuredly would not be giving online psychic readings.

Anyway, the information my online psychic gave to me was all a generic in nature. She said that I sometimes got confused about myself, trying to be an extrovert, and feeling like an extrovert, and at the same time having this introverted side to me too. That type of inner conflict turned out to be a general fame with her during the online psychic reading. She said that there were two sides to me –the one side that I share with everybody that is a gregarious side, and then the other side that I keep for myself.

At first I was actually impressed with that portion of the reading. I mean, I had never told anyone, but I guess that is pretty much the way I’m wired and I’ve always seemed to have a certain duality to me which seemed at times to be conflicted. To have a complete stranger know this without ever having met me before was pretty startling.

Then the other parts of the online psychic predictions I found to be far less impressive. For instance she told me that I hadn’t had the greatest luck with love and fortune, but my luck would soon take a turn for the better I would have all of the friends that I ever wanted. The truth was that I was on a roll lately, and had even fallen in love with a beautiful young lady. Hell, I even got a raise from work, which is why I could afford to pay for a consultation with an online psychic to begin with.

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Power Options for Tunneling Robots 0

Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized

Tunneling robots have many applications for instance laying underground cable, finding damaged pipelines, rescuing people from natural disasters, saving people from hostage situations or military applications in hunting down international terrorists at a time and place of our choosing. It is for this reason that the subject of tunneling robots came up recently in an online think tank. Which power option would you use so that the tunneling robot was powerful enough to complete its operations or mission?

One think tank member in discussing this stated; “The motors running the drill heads if multiple how powered? Electrical Motors, or Hydraulic. What kind of materials are expected to be drilled through, would depend the type of motors to use.”

It makes sense that in some applications you would want the tunneling robot to be very quiet and therefore not make the lot of noise while digging thru the dirt and in other applications you would want to increase the noise to alert survivors that you’re on your way or so that someone who was yelling after hearing the robot would allow the robot to go towards the sound.

Perhaps a combination of electrical motors with hydraulics makes sense because you may not know what type of ground you were traveling through or how hard or tough the dirt, debris or rock would be. Perhaps in some situations the tunneling robot could be plugged in to a generator and take its power cord with it dragging it behind, while in other applications you would want to make sure that the tunneling robot was totally self-contained and had its own power source. Consider this in 2006.

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Shipping To Jamaica - What You Need To Know To Remove The Stress From The Process 0

Nov 29, 2008 | Uncategorized

For a lot of Jamaicans living abroad, they know the stress that they can encounter when they have to ship items back home to family or friends. It doesn’t have to be like this. The main reason for the stress, is the lack of planning. Well, not anymore. You can use the information below to make sure that you have everything in order.

The first thing you will want to do is to find a reputable shipping company or Freight consolidator (maybe known as a NVOCC) that you can trust with your valuables. A personal referral usually is the best because you are getting feedback from someone that has used the shipping companies services before. If you are not fortunate enough to have a personal referral, a simple search in google for shipping to Caribbean or shipping to Jamaica will return plenty of results for you to begin your search for that reputable shipping company. When contacting these companies, something that should be high on your list is the professionalism of the personnel answering the phones. You will want to get a feel for this because if you are shipping routinely, you will want to have people that you can communicate with and are always willing to answer your questions and always ready to help.

The next thing you will want is to know their rates. You will want to know if they charge by weight or by volume. You will probably want to ship by volume (usually this is cubic feet or cubic meter). At the time of this article, the average rate per cubic feet is $3.20 to Jamaica. To calculate the cubic feet of your shipment, you would measure each item and multiply the length x width x height (in inches) and then divide by 1728. This is your cubic foot volume. You would then multiply that by their cubic foot rate (they usually have a standard documentation charge as well, so check what that is).

Once you have that in order, you will need to confirm the frequency of their sailings and when they arrive in Jamaica. Many shipping companies have bi-weekly sailings, some weekly, while others ship whenever they get enough cargo to load a container. Unless you are in no rush and or you are getting an exceptionally lower rate you will want to make sure that your goods are not in the hands of a company that ships when it suits them.

Before you deliver your cargo to them, you still have a few more things to iron out. Be sure to ask the prospective shipping company if they offer cargo insurance and what the cost is. Also, get something in writing as to what their policies are in case a claim does need to be filed. You should feel comfortable with their policy before using their service if you plan to insure your goods.

You could have found the best shipping company but if there agent in Jamaica is not on par, it could become your biggest nightmare. Ask the shipping company who their agent is in Jamaica and how long they have been working with them. Ask questions, like “Can I expect any delays getting my documents from your agent?”. Once again, you must feel comfortable with their answers. You might even want to call them before hand to see their professionalism and willingness to help as well.

When your goods arrive, they will usually remain at the port or go to a bonded warehouse. You will want to choose a company that delivers their goods to a bonded warehouse. The port or wharf can be a mad house, especially around the holidays. Make sure you make a note of the phone numbers and addresses of the agent and warehouse in Jamaica before you ship your goods.

Last but not least, you will need to decide if you will need a customs broker or if you are going to clear the goods your self. If the value of your goods that you are importing is more than US$ 1000 then you will need to make a formal entry and a customs broker is recommended. Once again, a personal referral is recommended but the shipping company should have contacts that they could recommend as well so you may want to make a note to ask them this during your initial screening.

Remember, with a little planning and research this doesn’t have to be a nightmare. It should be a process that you have a grasp on and are in control of. Good luck!

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An Immortal Horse 0

Nov 29, 2008 | Uncategorized

Egyptian scholars know there is little other than fiction that can be written about the civilization that lived on the banks of the Nile in far more recent times than the beginning of the ‘Old Copper Culture’. All these things are related and the old fictions are replaceable with the story of a worldwide culture with trading posts in each and every part of the world. Is there any remnant of cultural pride in Iran that treats the ancient metallurgists of their region with a different kind of respect than our history attributes to them? Does anyone think these nationalistic ideologues and pedagogues of today are real and honest presenters of fact? The whole concept of nationalism and most other ‘isms’ (except ecumenicism) need close scrutiny. The area of the Snake River in east central Minnesota may have been the site of copper mining when the glaciers covered the Great Lakes. Would it be possible for people 20,000 years ago to have been mining these sites and lost their access due to the glaciers? We humbly suggest this is the case and that they then returned as the glaciers melted. Petaga Point and work by Peter Bleed in 1969 may offer a starting point for that kind of thinking. He wrote The Archaeology of Petaga Point: The Preceramic Component by the Minnesota Historical Society.

“Petaga Point is a multicomponent site in central Minnesota near Mille Lacs Lake. The earliest levels appear to have Old Copper affiliations. The stratigraphy of the site was badly disturbed by forest clearing and modern habitation, and the presented stratigraphy is basically a statistical reconstruction. In this book, Bleed is the first to suggest a possible native copper source in the area of the Snake river in east central Minnesota.”(1)

This area is included in the culture we call Aztlan and involves Wisconsin sites such as Reigh, Osceola and Riverside. These sites may explain why there are no burials on Isle Royale or the Superior copper mining sites to the north. In the case of Riverside it is much later according to the archaeologic data and 1045 B.C. would have been a period of the Dark Ages when much worldwide technology was lost after the Trojan War. Walter Kenyon wrote about a site on the shores of the present day Lake Huron which was further inland and relates to a time when the Great Lakes were far differently configured.

“The Inverhuron site, located on the east shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, was excavated in 1956. The archaeological materials are contained in beach deposits, with earlier materials farther back from the present shore. A conical copper point was recovered from the limited testing of the extensive Archaic component. Kenyon compares it to those found at Farquhar Lake (Popham & Emerson 1954:18). He also describes a stone adze with an unusual form which he feels may have been derived from Old Copper celts.”(2)

The next brief report raises the issue of the horse that was once native to North America. It disappeared around 8,000 B.C after the Carolina Bays Meteors that are responsible for many of the instrumentation effects in the lower to middle Bermuda Triangle region. The horse may thus have actually been used in native copper mining of America. But we are convinced the issue of who the natives are that did this mining, is significantly up in the air or an outright cover-up (If you are inclined to conspiracies other than ‘LOVE’ as Father Pierre de Chardin who worked on Piltdown and with Black in China, asked us to begin.).

“1954 The Old Copper Assemblage and Extinct Animals. ‘American Antiquity’ 20:169-170.

Quimby analyses an occurrence of deeply buried copper artifacts and associated animal bones near Fort Williams in southwest Ontario. The discovery, made in 1913 and 1916, was recorded in a geological report. Quimby reasons that the site may date to the Altithermal, approximately 3500-2000 B.C., and that the bones are those of the bison and the extinct native horse.” (3)

This extinct native horse is around later than other data unequivocally states the horse was extinct in North America. It is almost too hard to believe there would be no other horse remains over a period of even a thousand years unless they were all completely domesticated and the bones didn’t exist because their owners cremated them in reverence. That is indeed a possibility when one considers the relationship various Keltic peoples had for the horse (but highly unlikely due to the way horses thrive in the wild.). Might we suggest another alternative? The horses found here had been brought to America to work milling machines on the route to the Trent or other Ontario river system routes that were used once the Ottawa River was no longer the conduit for Great Lakes water? This is at the end of the Old Copper culture and the location the horse was found is in close proximity to Isle Royale. I don’t think this is a co-incidence.

In addition to the eastern routes including Lake Champlain and Memphremagog there appears to have been some overland western route that led to the Fox or Aleutian Islands and even to Vancouver Island. In collating this information a University of Minnesota researcher brings together many interesting facts that indicate southwestern Ontario became the site of processing or manufacturing for copper after the sites on the Ottawa River are reported as being no longer in use by J. V. Wright that we have spoken of often. There are many routes from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario that may have been taken during this period. One of them is only a few hundred yards or a little more than a mile from where I now live in Toronto. The Humber River may have connected with Georgian Bay. Lake Simcoe and the Trent system seem likely at certain times after 2000 B.C. when the trade may have shifted away from a heavy emphasis on copper. The horse being part of this in a period five thousand years after their extinction is hard to fathom unless we connect with the European contacts we are making.

Processing Centers of a Non-Indigenous Nature For each Route:

1975 Taxonomic and Associated Considerations of Copper Technology During the Archaic Tradition. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

This source provides the first detailed information on four sites related to the Old Copper complex. PICKEREL LAKE (aka “Sarberg”), collected 1968-71, is located in Quetico Park, southwest Ontario. Copper artifacts were found along a beach and rocky shore by campers, along with corner notched lithic points. There were indications of copper manufacture. {N.B.!}Steinbring examines that possibility that this site, which strongly resembles the McCollum site, may represent the last vestiges of the Old Copper complex. TULABI FALLS, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba, was excavated in 1972. The site contained 4 copper artifacts, rich faunal remains and no signs of copper manufacture. WHITEMOUTH FALLS on the Winnipeg River in Manitoba produced 1 copper artifact. The site is deeply stratified, with a middle stratum radiocarbon date of 4860 /-150 suggesting that the earliest strata may be 7000 years old. HOUSKA POINT on the Rainey Lake in Ranier, Minnesota was excavated in 1970-71. The stratigraphy was significantly disturbed. The site produced approximately 600 copper artifacts, all characterized as fragile. Two gracile socketed forms were found in ceramic strata, and a possible socket fragment in a pre-ceramic strata. {Ceramic technology in this Aztlan area was prior to in other areas, and should not be regarded in the same archaeologic period per my research.} Trim bits and nuggets eroding from adjacent shoreline indicated copper manufacture on the site. (See Rapp 1984 regarding raw material source of the copper here.) Steinbring 1975 is cross-listed under Section I with notes on other contents. 1971 Test excavation at the Fish Lake Dam Site, Minnesota. ‘The Minnesota Archaeologist’ 31 (1):3-40.

This site, located 20 miles northwest of Duluth, Minnesota, was investigated by the University of Winnipeg in 1969. {Duluth is the key area of the iron ore range of today (Mesabi) and would have been a port for the Aztlan culture when the Old Copper Civilization was mining Isle Royale.} Copper artifacts were first discovered here by a collector in association with “Late Paleo/Boreal Archaic” lithic artifacts. A few copper artifacts were discovered in 1969, also with typologically Plano materials. The stratigraphy was essentially destroyed, but because there were no ceramics present all the pre-historic material was treated as a single Archaic component. Many copper artifacts were reportedly removed from the vicinity in the early 1900s, from sites which are believed to now be under water.”(4)

SUMMARY AND THE X FACTOR:

We must make some guesses that are totally speculative to try to tie some of this information into a common sense perspective. The geologic record which we dealt with in earlier chapters assures us that the Hudson/Lake Champlain or Richelieu Valley was a prime conduit for the water from the Great Lakes at some point. It may have occurred at different points as the native Indians speak of the river that flows both ways. The rise of land after the glacial retreat contributes to the landforms that stand in the way of access for Lake Memphremagog or Lake Champlain to the waters of the St. Lawrence. There would have been a time before the horses of America were extinct (not the anomalous one noted, but back to 8,350 BC and before) when the glaciers still locked the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Memphremagog was probably not the mouth of any great water system at this time but pre-glacial lakes in front of the retreating glaciers would have been there at some point.

It is probably just a stretch of my fertile imagination to suggest that there were knowledgeable people who had harvested copper from the surface of the Lake Superior region before the glaciers advanced. If this ‘float ore’ left from earlier glacial effects had been found when the National Geographic and others acknowledge Europeans and earlier Asians arrived in the Americas would they have found them useful and returned to Europe with the information, or with other intent (Including War) to show those who threw them out of their homeland? If that occurred and they kept the verbal tradition alive through all the last stage of glacial advances that covered the Great Lakes they might also have found a time when the Connecticut River appealed to them and they began mining around 10,500 years ago or before when the lower Great Lakes were uncovered. The marble and quartz of the region around the Laurentian Shield of southern Ontario and Quebec might have been enough to interest them while waiting to get at the copper.

If this scenario has any credence it seems likely that the Chinese or Asian/Mu people were involved in Aztlan at this time and before as well. I can find no specific evidence of when the Mu people fought the remnants of the mythical Atlantis except a record on the frieze at Chichen Itza which could relate to any time period or peoples. There are lots of legends to suggest they were in contact and we know for sure they were living together in the Tarim Basin near Ürümchi; or even earlier when the Great Lop-Nor was a real Mediterranean Sea between two huge mountain ranges. Lao Tzu went there at the end of his life to see the ‘Ancient Masters’.

We know the Uighurs fought major battles around 17,000 years ago as the glaciers retreated in Asia. They might also have fought in America at this time. The racial make-up of the Uighurs is uncertain and may include a mixture of red-heads with Chinese as we saw in the Altaic region and Ürümchi. The Solutrean culture of Europe had a technology that would fit with the Clovis culture that spread across America at this time. “The Solutrean culture of western Europe, dating between 24,000 and 16,500 years ago, shows a similar lithic technology to that used to produce Clovis tools. The two cultures also share bone-shaping techniques, pebble-decorating artistry, the unusual tradition of burying stone tools in caches filled with red ocher, and other traits.” This is also taken from Encyclopedia Smithsonian. (5)

So the people of America may be those who retreated before the Uighurs or they may be the Uighurs after they were thrown back or they may be totally unconnected. Nonetheless this is a period when we can fit the Aztlan culture into place near the receding glaciers of Lake Superior and Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes of today. But it is even more likely that there was a great influx of people from Central Asia into North America long before these dates. AND THEY ARE NOT ASIAN! This Haplogroup X genetic marker proof is so aligned with our theory regarding certain Indian tribes as to be scary; therefore I do not want to focus on it too much. There are debunkers who say it may not be so correct and it is too early to tell. But the more recent ‘Y’ Chromosome research of Professor Jones confirms and extends the ‘X’ research. The Sioux are known to have moved from the mound builder site and we have commented on the Ojibwa of Manitoulin and their copper. The Northwest roots of the Navajo ties in with the linguistic similarity between Basque, SE Asia and Mayan through the Denhe of the Northwest as we covered before. It might be a stretch to say our trepanning connection to the Yakima in the Pacific Northwest exists but I know you will have to admit my guesswork has found great support through genetics. I also have Walter Kenyon providing something he did not fully understand in esoteric rituals having to do with trepanning; far away from the Yakima and on the eastern Copper Route to Europe and the Mediterranean.

References:

1) tc.umn.edu/ op cit., pg. 1 of 6.
2) IBID., pg. 3 of 6.
3) IBID., pg. 4 of 6.
4) IBID., pg.5 of 6.
5) si.edu/resource/faq/nmhl/origin.htm. pg. 1 of 6 - Encyclopedia Smithsonian.

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Hubble Space Telescope 0

Nov 29, 2008 | Uncategorized

The telescope is one primary tool for viewing distant objects. As man’s curiosity and perseverance to discover what was happening far outside of the earth increased, the Hubble space telescope was developed.

The Hubble space telescope orbits the Earth. Its position outside of the Earth’s environment enables the device to capture vivid ocular images of the minutest objects.

This type of telescope provides great benefit to the field of astronomy. Since its creation in 1990, it has marked a major significance in the field of science and has ranked as one of the most vital telescopes in the record of astronomy.

The Hubble space telescope has provided numerous innovative observations and explanations that have helped astronomers understand astrophysics. However, it has had its problems. Originally, the idea for the telescope was developed in 1946, but the project was delayed because of resources and budget constraints.

Finally, in 1990, the space telescope was launched. Another problem when the main mirror suffered from spherical aberration. It delimited the space telescope’s deliverance of its finest performance.

It was in 1993, that the Hubble was revived and reshaped in accordance to what had been in the original plan. From then on, the space telescope had greatly helped scientists as a fundamental research apparatus for astronomical study.

Up to this day, no one is certain whether or not the Hubble space telescope will continue to function properly. NASA officials are considering the launching of a repair mission but are unsure of its success. For one, a robotics mission is not a guarantee , and a repair mission by the astronauts will surely be perilous.

After 2010, it is thought that the Hubble telescope will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere. By 2013, a descendant space telescope known as the James Webb will be launched, but it is only limited to observing via infrared – limited compared to the capabilities of the Hubble space telescope.

Despite several other groundbreaking instruments with higher resolutions, nothing has beaten the sensitivity of the Hubble space telescope with regards its discernible wavelengths.

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The Importance of Accreditation 0

Nov 29, 2008 | Uncategorized

Accreditation is one of the most important factors when selecting an online high school program. Parents and prospective students should do their homework to ensure that a particular school is accredited by the right type of agency.

What is accreditation?

Accreditation is the process of reviewing an online high school’s programs and policies to see if it meets certain criteria, generally set by an outside agency. When a school is found to meet the minimum criteria, it is granted accreditation.

Why is accreditation important?

Accreditation is meant to protect students, schools, and employers. It ensures that an online high school is teaching its students at a nationally acceptable level. When students receive a diploma from an accredited high school, they can be assured that it will be recognized by colleges and accepted by employers. Likewise, when a college is accepting students or an employer is looking to hire, they can be assured that a student or prospective employee has received quality training from an accredited high school.

Who can grant accreditation?

The truth is anyone can claim to have the power to grant accreditation to schools. Be aware that not all accreditation is equal. Accreditation from the wrong source can be just as bad as no accreditation at all.

Be sure to check whether your school is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. You can visit the department’s listings of national and regional accrediting agencies. You can also check with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). CHEA is a non-government agency that recognizes accrediting agencies in the United States and helps to coordinate policy and research on accreditation issues.

What if my school isn’t accredited?

If you choose an online high school that isn’t accredited, you may find that many colleges and businesses won’t accept your diploma. If you are taking a typing course, it might not matter. But if you are enrolling in an online high school program, you want the school to be accredited.

Take the necessary steps to protect your education. An online high school is designed to provide you with additional educational options, not to limit them.

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Should You Get A College Education 0

Nov 28, 2008 | Uncategorized

As the cost of receiving a college education continues to rise every year you have to ask yourself whether a college education is necessary and what are the benefits of actually getting it. Here are some of the facts about people who get a college degree.

1. You want to view your college education as an investment. With any investment you want to see a return. It is a fact that a person who does not get a college degree of any kind will earn on average $1.2 million dollars in their lifetime. Getting an associates degree increases that to an average of $1.6 million, an increase of over $400,000 for 2 years of college.

A person who receives a bachelors degree will earn $2.1 million or almost $900,000 more for going to college for 4 years. That is the return you get on investing your time and money in a college education.

2. Getting a college education offers a variety of degrees which determine the amount of time and money you will spend. A technical degree can be obtained in as little as 6 months and for as low as a few thousand dollars. Going to a 4 year state university is going to cost an average of $40,000 or more in total expenses including tuition, books, living expenses, food, etc.

You can certainly control those costs by living at home. In Colorado, for example, living at home and attending Metro State University will save a college student close to $10,000 in total expenses versus attending the University Of Northern Colorado.

No matter how you do it you are going to spend time to get a degree. Many students enroll in college and change their major 1, 2, 3 times or more. This can add additional years in getting the degree for the major you do settle on. Another problem with attending colleges is that they require general education courses for things such as history, or math, for a music major as example. This adds to your cost while offering virtually no relevance to what you will do for a living.

Statistics have proven that the more education you receive the more you will earn. Getting a college education in a field that interests you has shown that people are healthier and happier as well. This leads to a longer career and an improved lifestyle with friends and family. You have to personally weigh the costs associated with a college education, with your own career goals and plans.

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Math Games - A Fun Way to Learning Math 0

Nov 28, 2008 | Uncategorized

Math games are a great way to get students involved in math. Just like chess, math games get students hooked. Each time they play, they have more confidence and better strategies. With the competitive itch, they strive to do better each time they play.

Math games should be specifically designed to work on math skills. It may work on addition, multiplication or fractions. Having the skills as part of the game makes it easy to make learning seem fun. Just like mothers often sneak vegetables into a casserole or pasta dish, teachers can sneak learning into games.

The games should have some elements that make it playable. The game should have simple rules. If there are too many rules, kids will lose interest. Soccer is relatively simply. You need to kick the ball into the net without using your hands. In golf you try to hit a ball into a hole in as few strokes as possible. With Scrabble, you try to make words with the highest point value possible. The general goal or core rules of the game should be relatively simple.

Once this is established, there should be room for developing strategy. The game Tic Tac Toe is not played by adults or even most kids as it is too simple. The game of chess however allows players to make choices that affect the outcome of the game. If you can’t develop strategy or feel like you are affecting the outcome, you probably won’t continue playing.

There also needs to be an element of chance. Even though players may have different abilities, each one should feel as though they have a chance to win. You wouldn’t enter a 100 meter race if you knew the other runner was a great deal faster. In Scrabble the element of chance comes when players randomly choose letters. When chance affects the game it evens out the playing field.

Games in the class create hours of solid practice. Students actually focus on the skills and develop their skills quickly. Aside from the math skills students learn, they also learn some much needed social skills by working with partners that they can’t get from video games. Games are the way to reach children and make learning a truly fun and inspiring activity. The skills they learn will last a lifetime.

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