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		<title>No More Money for British Maths</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EPSRC, or &#8220;Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council&#8221; is the body in the UK that decides what kinds of research in the physical sciences will get government grant money. Grant money is needed for advanced research in mathematics for the following reasons : This kind of research produces amazing benefits down the track, however [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Child&#8217;s View of Standardized Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son was asked to write a short essay on standardized testing. I thought I&#8217;d share it with the world. Note that these are his opinions, not mine! I&#8217;ve edited it slightly for clarity. Should Standardized Testing Be Scrapped? I strongly believe that we should definitely scrap NAPLAN [Ed : NAPLAN is the nationwide standardized testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming and Math</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing a bit of random lunch-hour web-surfing, and came across a blog post by a swimming instructor. It starts with the eye-catching line &#8220;before you can teach something, you have to realize it’s hard&#8221; The blogger writes about their insights into how (and how not) to teach swimming, and then wonders &#8220;how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Students Pay for Education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a student in university, I felt quite strongly about this issue. I believed firmly that education should be free. After all, education is necessary for a nation to succeed. An educated populace, I believed,  should be seen as a form of infrastructure &#8211; as necessary for a strong economy as good transport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives &#8211; Grading On A Curve</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/03/incentives-grading-on-a-curve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/03/incentives-grading-on-a-curve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Harford is an economist who has a newspaper column called &#8220;The Undercover Economist&#8221;. He presents tongue-in-cheek answers to a wide variety of questions from readers. In his book, &#8220;Dear Undercover Economist,&#8221; some of his favorite responses have been collected together. Two that really tickled me were related to the practice of grading on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives &#8211; Standardized Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/02/incentives-standardized-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would a teacher ever cheat? Of course this question will raise a few hackles. However, teachers are human, and humans respond to incentives. We do things that reward us, and avoid things that punish us. I&#8217;m intending to write a few blog posts about how incentives affect education &#8211; for good or for bad. So, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentives &#8211; Rewarding Good Teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/02/incentives-rewarding-good-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/02/incentives-rewarding-good-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I want to talk about this statement : it is good to reward good teachers. Some might say that teachers teach as a passion, and a reward is demeaning. While it&#8217;s true that there exist good teachers who are so devoted to their craft that they would work for free, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifted Kids &#8211; Six Types</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/01/gifted-kids-six-types/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/01/gifted-kids-six-types/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone says &#8220;gifted child&#8221;, a picture springs to most people&#8217;s minds of a child who always does well in school, who finds all topics easy to understand &#8211; a dream student. It did for me. I attended a talk a while back that shattered this misconception. Giftedness is about potential, not results. Everyone has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Of The Union 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/01/state-of-the-union-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/01/state-of-the-union-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I didn&#8217;t listen to Obama&#8217;s &#8220;state of the union&#8221; address, I happened upon the transcript and started flipping through it. There&#8217;s a lot of encouraging stuff about science and math education. For example, he says over the next 10 years, with so many baby boomers retiring from our classrooms, we want to prepare 100,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Way To Teach Fraction Division</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/01/another-way-to-teach-fraction-division/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/blog/2011/01/another-way-to-teach-fraction-division/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arithmetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common denominator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classic way to teach fraction division is like this. To work out, say, we &#8216;turn the second fraction upside-down&#8217;, to get and then the division question becomes a multiplication question. I&#8217;ve been watching my son do a whole bunch of fractions questions lately, and a couple of thoughts crossed my mind. First of all, [...]]]></description>
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