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Knowledge of rope strength safety is important for P. E. teachers, playground planners, administrators, and anyone on a field trip using ropes for any purpose. I never thought about this important issue, until I was reading an article on this issue written by http://xtremesport4u.wordpress.com/ The article is so good, and so important, that I felt I could not do it justice rewriting it.

Part Three of this series will deal with enhancing student Feng Shui. This post has several important photo examples, so please be patient while the photos load on your screen. This post has three sections: I) Student Desk Arrangement Issues; II.) Features Which Can Disturb Students; and III.) Enhancements Which Can Help Students.

It might be time for me to practice what my last two posts have preached, and find a way to turn my own Online Math League website into something more collaborative and potentially create a more vast and helpful resource for math students in 2nd grade up through Algebra.

The new college entrance requirements are REALLY SCARY for parents….. If I were just entering high school today, I think I might have trouble myself meeting the new college entrance requirements for 2010 (at least in my home state of Colorado)! I just found out about all this last week when doing some on-line research about current prices of universities.

Rumor has it that some teachers actually take time off for summer vacation.  Not me.  Instead of doing boring things like golfing or actually going outside, I’ve been working on a complete site redesign for my math contest company, the Online Math League (formerly known as the Academic Leagues).

Here is a photo of the report cards we use at our American school. We need to give a grade in each subject, and write a comment for each subject. It normally takes me in excess of 40 hours (all at home, spread over about three weeks) to do this for a whole class of close to 30 students.

Let me expand on yesterday’s post about a poorly written math standard in Michigan, because that standard is just one way in which we make math much more inaccessible than it should be. Take multiplication: the most common way of saying 4 x 7 is “four times seven.”  But to a third grader, honestly,

Designed for 5th graders in Michigan, this is the word-for-word text of my least favorite math standard ever: “N.FL.05.14   Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators through 12 and/or 100, using the common denominator that is the product of the denominators of the 2 fractions, e.g., 3/8