The GED Test - A Thinking Marathon

The GED test is grueling. A timed 7.5-hour test, it's a thinking marathon, and GED students should prepare for the test just like a runner would get ready for a challenging athletic event.

Is Mathematics For The Left Brain?

The left hemisphere is responsible for verbal, abstract, symbolic activities. The right hemisphere serves for synthetic, holistic, intuitive perception and information processing. Under normal circumstances, the left hemisphere is the more active of the two. Why then so many people dislike mathematics?

Parrondo's Paradox

It is possible to combine two losing games in a winning combination. Although the idea sounds surprising, the phenomenon may not be that uncommon.

The Barnett Shale

The Barnett Shale is a geological formation of fiscal meaning. It belong of Mississippian sedimentary rocks in the U.S. State of Texas.

Teachers and Counselors, Help Your Students Become Career Explorers

Help Your Students Become Career Explorers. Make the career exploration journey enjoyable, educational, and effective. Find fun, educational, and not boring kid career tests, assessments, games, web sites, and books. Get resources that meet your child's potentials.

Teaching in International Schools - Frequently Asked Questions

You have a question about teaching at an international school? Ask Kelly! Check here for Kelly Blackwell's answers to the most frequently asked questions about teaching posts overseas.

Holistic Career Training Programs

Today, holistic career training programs are widespread and easily accessible. Whether you choose to participate in a holistic career training program that emphasizes bodywork, such as acupressure, sports massage or Swedish massage - or you elect to pursue a holistic career training program to become a holistic health practitioner, there are many studies in which one can apply. For example, if you are interested in becoming a kinesiologist, there are holistic career training programs that specialize in kinesiology education.

Digital Library And Its Services

The latest innovations in computer and communication technologies have tremendously changed the ways of collection, storage, processing, preservation and transmission of information. The emergence and development of these modern technologies have resulted in the evolution of the novel concept of digital library. The concept of digital library does not mean only a digitized collection with information management tools but it refers to an environment, which is created to bring together collections, services and people in support of the full life cycle of creation, preservation, utilization and dissemination of information, data and knowledge as a whole. A digital library is not a library in the traditional sense, but it is a network of highly sophisticated multimedia systems connected to high-speed networks through a media server. A digital library may be defined as an electronic version of a traditional library where all the information will exist in digital form, totally free of any matter printed on paper leading to a paperless environment.

Fractions- Why Are They So Hard?

Not even signed numbers cause as many problems as those two-headed monsters called fractions. But why so much trouble? Maybe because fractions have a dual nature, that is, they consist of the numerator and denominator, and most of us are poor at multitasking. But did you know that once you master fractions, you learn to handle multiple tasks as well? This is one of the benefits of mastering these pesky little creatures.

7 Tricks for Landing a Great Job Teaching ESL-EFL (English as a Second Language)

An article to get you started on the road to teaching ESL-EFL!

Fungus in the Rainforest

To most people the word fungus is a dirty word conjuring images of skin irritations, green fur on leather shoes in the tropics, and mold on bread. Others may think more kindly in terms of mushrooms and culinary delights. But in spite of the alert in Australian Geographic, April-June 2005, to be on the lookout for the fruiting bodies of fungi which erupt in their hundreds on the forest floor, we were scarcely prepared for the kaleidoscope of colours and shapes which burst forth.

Math Can Be Strange but Quantum Physics is Even Stranger - Part I

Indeed math can be strange. Especially when one delves into the upper echelons of this most mystifying discipline: multidimensional spaces, transfinite numbers, non-Euclidean geometries—you name it. But when you start reading about quantum physics and all the strange things that happen at the most microscopic of microscopic levels, then you really start to realize that math is not all that strange.

How Your Child Can Benefit From Online Tutoring

Everyone knows that if your child is having trouble in school, a private tutor may be the solution. Tutoring has been proven to have many benefits, which include improved motivation, understanding of class material, and personal attention that isn't available in the classroom.