U.S. Middle School Math Teachers Are Ill-prepared Among International Counterparts


	U.S. Middle School Math Teachers Are Ill-prepared Among International Counterparts

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1-5-2008 12:28 AM

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1-5-2008 9:50 PM

allenmarkowski

When I was in school I kept getting put ahead in higher math & then back. It seems like I would grasp some principles & then just lose it. Algebra was definitely not my favorite & I can truly say that I learned more about algebra by doing programing in Basic. Anyway through studying numerology I've come to see that numbers & mathematical symbols can be viewed a different way & for me it seems to explain some things in a way I can now understand.

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