http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Ann+Knapp Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297149&ca=Education If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It's only a thousand years or so. For a long time, the history of Western culture was told like this: around the fifth century BCE, math, philosophy and science develope... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297150&ca=Education One of the most fascinating things about history is the amount of it that's been wiped out - on purpose. For example, in the ninth century CE, the greatest library in the world, the Library of Alexandria, was burned in an act of war, and ever since, history buffs have kept themselves tantalized and... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297151&ca=Education More adults than ever before are returning to formal education. Some want to learn what they have failed to learn in high school. Some have made the momentous decision to earn a high school diploma or to go to college for the first - or second or third - time. And some, particularly those in mid-lif... Family Concerns Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297152&ca=Family+Concerns We all use math in our everyday lives. Many of us consider ourselves to be "math phobic", "math deficient" or "mathematically challenged." Perhaps we communicate these ideas to our children or perhaps we and our children truly are any or all of the above. In educational institutions, where math is t... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297153&ca=Education For those of us who are old enough to remember classrooms with walls, the methods we used to learn math were teacher-centered and method-based. Those who came of age before cooperative learning became prevalent in schools probably remember learning one method of solving problems and some of us may h... Finances Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297154&ca=Finances A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledger? Yes, and yes. Credit cards are ubiquitous in American life; there are probably 2 or 3 in your po... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297155&ca=Education A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledger? Yes, and yes. One place where math affects almost everyone, of course, is the pocketbook. Anyone... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297156&ca=Education Don't worry about your difficulties with math, Albert Einstein is said to have told a schoolgirl who wrote to him to lament her lack of success in the subject - "Mine," he wrote, "are still greater." Like many of Einstein's off-the-cuff remarks, this one contains a profound truth. Math is the sort o... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297548&ca=Education Algebra represents some peoples’ fondest memories of high school—and for others, it goes down in personal history as the one activity that tuned them out on math forever. But algebra offers instant help with an issue nearly everyone needs to think about—personal finances. For an example, let’s use a... Education Ann Knapp Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=297550&ca=Education Among publishers, advertisers, and other business folk, the idea that Americans hate numbers is almost proverbial. One publishing-industry dictum holds that each equation an author puts in a book's manuscript will cut that book's sales in half. Pundits decry slipping American math scores, suggesting...