Category Archives: Math

Saxon Math: Daily Practice and Tests; Computer Math TargetScores: Accurate and Fast Calculation; TAPS (Talk Aloud Problem Solving): Using Math Skills and Concepts to Solve Problems. Robotics: Programming, Applied Mathematics, Problem-Solving.

Best State for Business? Yes, California

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Companies domiciled in California also outperformed the S&P 500 during the past four years by a margin of 23 percent. Among the California industries making the state No. 1 in business are health care, returning 267 percent, consumer staples (302 percent), specialty pharma (235 percent), energy (30 percent) and biotech (333 percent).

Maybe high taxes and strong regulations don’t daunt business leaders if well spent and well aimed. Places that prepare for big 21st-century challenges such as urbanization, climate change and globalization are likely to be the most successful. Continue reading →

Passive Index Funds-Power of Compound Interest (fees)

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Assuming an annual market return of 7 percent, he says, a 30-year-old worker who made $30,000 a year and received a 3 percent annual raise could retire at age 70 with $927,000 in the pot by saving 10 percent of her wages every year in a passive index fund. (Such a nest egg, at the standard withdrawal rate of 4 percent, would generate an inflation-adjusted $37,000 a year more or less indefinitely.) If she put it in a typical actively managed fund, she would end up with only $561,000.

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5th Graders Prep for New “Racer” Probots with Seminar on Mystery Program

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Fifth Graders started back into programming last week with a SEMINAR on a Mystery Program: What symbol, shape, or word will Racer robot draw if you enter this program?

The Seminar Reading is here: Seminar 1: On Programming Robotics.
  • Please ask your 5th graders to explain it to you, line by line.
  • Continue reading to see what Racer robot created! →

*Robotics* Category

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OTA Math & Science Olympics! Programming • Applied Mathematics • Problem-Solving

In the ROBOTICS CATEGORY you can post your:

Successful Roamer or Racer Robot programs:

2nd Grade-Programming Robotics

Photos & videos of your Group working with the Racer Robots:

3rd Robotics-Art Squares 2

And samples of your robot-created art:

IMG_4253 IMG_4250 IMG_4259 IMG_4258 IMG_4255

 

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*Math* Category

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Math posts go here…

Book of Real Problem Problems (Create your own illustrated math tutorial in Pages or Keynote or with Show Me);
Completed Math Progress Trackers (Saxon, Computer TargetScores, TAPS);
Combined Math-Language Arts Projects (Math Poems or Songs, etc.); Combined Math-Science Projects (SONAR Math Challenges, etc.)