From an early age I have been fascinated by Mathematics and the way it stimulates flexible cognitive thinking. Doing a BS in Mathematics at IBA, I enjoyed the variety offered by Mathematics, in terms of the modules I studied. I now want to expand my knowledge and understanding of Mathematics by obtaining a Master’s degree from a prestigious institute that will enable me to take up a teaching and research career. My love story with mathematics began at an early age. In high school, I scored the highest
regulation of and control over one’s learning activities such as task analysis, planning, monitoring, checking, and reflection (Brown, 1978; Brown & DeLoache, 1978; Flavell, 1992; Kluwe, 1987). Although metacognitive awareness may occur at an earlier age (Kluwe, 1987; Kuhn, 1999), the development of metacognitive skills may
the factors that made the system one of the best, criticisms towards the system, and the systems effects on students and parents. The South Korean educational system’s common as it’s divided into three parts namely: primary school, middle school, and high school. From age six to twelve, children have to be in Primary
Since an early age, the sciences have always interested me; due to my rampant curiosity and fascination of how things work. I was first drawn into the field with demonstrations done by outreach programs such as Mad Science. I always looked forward to learning more about the topics and experiments they showcased. During middle school I pursued my interest in the sciences, being allowed more freedom and more opportunities than before. I vividly remember going to my father’s work as part of “take your
dark ages, Christians and Jews, both men and women, were being taught maths , science and philosophy by muslim scholars. It was the muslims who transcribed the ancient greek philosophers and spread their teachings through out Europe in the dark ages and are credited as the force behind the renaissance. Its pretty sad that most people in are ignorant to the fact that much of what
Korean educational structure is divided into three parts namely: six years of primary school, followed by three years of middle school, then three years of high school.
false. If the statement is true, then it is indeed false. But if it is false, well, then it is true. So it seems to be both true and false. In 19th century, many similar puzzles were discovered and many scholars were trying to solve them by using mathematics as a whole on solid foundations. The leader of those efforts was Bertrand Russell who discovered the most famous paradox called Russell’s
A Study on the Issues/Problems Pertaining to Single Parents-Layered Feed Forward Neural Network A.Praveen Prakash Department of Mathematics Hindustan University Padur, Chennai - 603103 apraveenprakash@gmail.com V.Shrimathi Department of Mathematics Guru Nanak College Velacheri, Chennai-600042 srimdeep@gmail.com J.Esther Jerlin Department of Mathematics Hindustan University Padur, Chennai - 603103 estherjerlin2@gmail.com Copyright © 2014 A.Praveen Prakash, V.Shrimathi and J.Esther Jerlin
appreciated the different writing genres – from the humorous to the tragic. I was especially touched by his sensitively written assignment on Kamala Das’ poem, ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’, in which the poet talks about the helplessness that accompanies old age. Also, he stood out in
In fact, so great is its importance for man and society that the present day people live in an "age of science". No one perhaps needs an explanation at present to include science in the school curriculum, Canon, Wilson, a famous educationist in 1867, in support of inclusion of science as a School subject wrote, "Science teaches what evidence is, what