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Education as Service - Educational system as a platform

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:41:44 +0000

If you have not read yet a memo by Steve's Google Platform rant, you should. A first-hand account on management practice and philosophy differences between Amazon and Google. The memo has been intended for internal google distribution but somehow found its way to a wider audience. Besides revealing some truths about the two successful online [...]

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Thought provokers to start a class with

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:51:42 +0000

At the beginning of his career, Doug Rohrer - presently Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida - was a math teacher. As such, he was used to begin his mathematics classes with thought provokers, the kind of puzzles that are intrinsically provocative and whose solution - often surprising - does not require [...]

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The 1089 Prediction Trick and Beyond

admin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:41:39 +0000

Simple mathematics may be rather impressive even on an early developmental level. The "1089 prediction" is one of the better known tricks that may be presented to the 3-4 grade audience. David Acheson describes it thus: Think of a three-digit number. Any three-figure number will do, so long as the first and last figures differ [...]

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