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- Poor Math Skills Are a Barrier to Financial Security
- Managing your financial life involves some basic math skills. Nothing terribly complicated, and it's stuff you probably learned by sixth grade. But according to an article I recently read in the Journal of Financial Planning, many people aren't very good at basic math PDF link. That's a problem, because if...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
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- Kids discover math with an "Aussie" flavor in Broderbund Software's "James Discovers Math;" new Active Mind Series CD-ROM has ten skill-building activities that introduce basic math to children ages 3 to 6
- NOVATO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 25, 1995--Kids get a fun first look at essential math concepts with a decidedly Australian twist in Broderbund Software's (NASDAQ:BROD) "James Discovers Math."
- Research articles 1995-09-25
- Learning math is, like, 50 percent skill, 90 percent luck
- I'm back from a vacation in Massachusetts with my kids. The highlight came while wading through the surf on Cape Cod, when - I'm not kidding - we were savagely attacked around the foot and toe region by a pack of man-eating crabs, just like in "Jaws." ...
- Research articles 2001-08-07
- National Study Calls for Better Math Teaching - Brief Article
- Math instruction in U.S. schools needs overhauling if students are to achieve the skill levels needed in a high-tech economy, according to the report "Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics." The report, written for the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, said the chief goal should...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- The U.S. Business Skill That China Doesn't Have
- China has given the U.S. a lot over the past few years: loans, computer parts and one of the NBA's most elite players. Yet China is looking to the U.S. and the rest of the West for something it desperately needs: people with critical thinking skills. In...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Robert Half International Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Andrew Steinerman with Bear Stearns. Go ahead, please. Andrew Steinerman - Bear Stearns Good evening, gentlemen. I am going to need a little more explanation on why Protiviti operating margins didn’t increase sequentially even though there...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Questioning Your Marketing Efforts and Abilities
- As you've undoubtedly read a thousand times in the reams of pages of management books that you've consumed, it's vitally important that when you build your management team, you don't just pick good people, but instead, pick good people whose skills fill in for weaknesses in the team. For...
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Questioning Your Marketing Efforts and Abilities
- As youve undoubtedly read a thousand times in the reams of pages of management books that youve consumed, its vitally important that when you build your management team, you dont just pick good people, but instead, pick good people whose skills fill in for weaknesses in the team. For...
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Questioning Your Marketing Efforts and Abilities
- As you've undoubtedly read a thousand times in the reams of pages of management books that you've consumed, it's vitally important that when you build your management team, you don't just pick good people, but instead, pick good people whose skills fill in for weaknesses in the team. For...
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Fighting the war against the skills shortage.
- Manufacturers and Labor Department join torces According to a recent study by the American Management Association AMA, 41.7% of manufacturing job applicants have basic skill deficiencies and over 38% of all job applicants lack the necessary reading, writing, and math skills to do...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Houghton Mifflin Learning Technology Wins Two Prestigious Codie Awards
- BOSTON -- Houghton Mifflin Learning Technology today announced that two of its flagship products received 2007 Codie Awards, the top honors from the Software & Information Industry Association SIIA. Larson Learning([R]), a highly interactive software-based math program that combines real-world problem solving and skill building through interactive instruction, guided...
- Research articles 2007-04-19
- Saxon Publishers sold to Harcourt Achieve
- Education materials publisher Harcourt Achieve (Austin, TX), a unit of Harcourt and Reed Elsevier, has acquired Saxon Publishers (Norman, OK), a publisher of skill-based instructional materials for grades pre-K through 12 in mathematics, phonics and early childhood. No terms were given. Harcourt said that Saxon Math is the nation's...
- Research articles 2004-05-30
- Innovation - Read All About It!
- Want to leverage from new ideas and thinking by experts? When was the last time you read a book? There are three main ways we obtain new information: face to face, online and through printed material. Reading about different business models, successes, failures and...
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Want to Really Learn Something? Teach It
- Now that you're finally out of formal education after nearly two decades in school and have entered the workforce you might think that you've left teaching behind and moved on to mentoring. That's a mistake if a recent post by Michael Schrage on the HBR Conversation Starters blog is correct....
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Is Playing Hard-to-Get Suicide in a Job Search?
- Back before the economy imploded and unemployment hovered near 10 percent and some of my most-respected colleagues began exploring Amway as a valid income option, we were always counseled to play hard-to-get in job interviews. Don't talk salary first. Be enthusiastic, but don't gush. Remember that you'd...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
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