Decorating with Letters and Numbers

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Letters on your pillows...
Coastal Living photo Tria Giovan

Words on the wall...

Country Living photo John Coolidge

Country Living photo Jack Thompson

Excuse this photo, but I took it with my cell phone in a little restaurant we stopped at a couple months ago. They had several walls accessorized this way and I thought it was interesting (and of c! ourse I had to take a photo in case someone in blogland could ! use the idea!)

Notice the words on the mirror?
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and this on! e? (love it)
B&B Italia via Marcus Design

Signs...
Sarah Richardson Design

House #'s on pillows on your porch...
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Personalizing your chairs with chalkboard paint. Fun for every day use and also a clever, different take on "name cards" for dinner guests. ( BHG.com)

Embellishing wood letters ( BHG.com)...


A mix of plates and words...
HGTV.com Designer Sue Adams. (Photo by Sam Gray)

words ON plates...
Country Living photo Ellen Silverman

Letters etched into frosted glass cabinet doors...
Coastal Living

A cute eye chart lamp shade, printed table runner and wall words from Real Simple...


Organize and Decorate Everything did a stairway letter wall...

Love the use of letters on this bunkbed...
warymeyers via Alkemie

An artistic headboard fr! om diyideas.com

A fun idea for a boys room from diyideas.com

Monogrammed tables from diyideas.com

BHG.com suggests assigning each family member a hanging basket, then mounting the baskets on hooks beside an entry door or on a stairway wall. Identify the baskets for each family member using letters...

Use a window film with a cut out message as an inexpensive alternative to blinds...

via homesandgardens.com

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Bird and Banner via Once Wed showed this project as a centerpiece idea, but the vintage numbered books could really be used anywhere you're accessorizing.

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It's not just public education, its the whole system

In September you can see the movie Waiting for Superman, and hopefully get more engaged with fixing the public education system.

There are links on the Superman sites to forums where you can share ideas with others. Too few, as far as I'm concerned.

Here's a site and discussion that I'd recommend you add to your reading list. This one is titled "It's not Just Public Education, It's the Whole System".

I have the same fear for my own son, as this writer has. I have an even greater fear for the k-12 kids living in high poverty neighborhoods of Chicago who don't have the community supports and education facilities as I do where I live.

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Logic - Truth Tables and Truth Trees

Be sure to listen to my 1SmartMama radio archive where I verbally explain this topic on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 11am.

Over Christmas, Challenge B students are required to memorize the appendices from Nance's Intermediate Logic. My William and I took the tables and simplified them for easier memorization. Each morning over the holiday, he copied Appendix A and C.





Here is the original from the book for clarity. You may want to scroll back to it occasionally during this lesson.




To make it easier to remember, we just write the things that change. The things that are the same, are the same and easy. So we only filled in the letter F for false, since the T F table never changes and the empty boxes indicate T or True. Below are my notes. The words and, or, if/then and equal just remind us of the symbols meanings APPROXIMATELY. Also, we abbreviated the column labels to a rhyme: Neg, Con, Dis, Con, Bi.


Here is Appendix C from the book. I don't like how the printer made it look different than the Appendix A. We noticed that they used the same terms as A, so we made it into our form of a table. Even though memorizing is a grammatical process, notice it takes dialectic skills to reform someone else's info into your own tool.

We put C right under A, and now have reduced the two charts to one easy chart. Notice that both charts have a simple Negative column. So we write that first! and it's easy to memorize. Then we just repeated the original p and q chart and wrote a check mark after each.

Then we write the exact same row in the Negated column, except we add parenthesis and a ~ before each pq relationship.

Now that the hea! dings ar e listed, we have to fill in the chart. There are only 3 that have just a p over a q so we do them first. Then we draw the slants and the p and qs for the rest of the table, noticing that the Bi column is different too. So, they are either p over q, p before q, or pp over qq. We say these lind of things out loud to remind us.

Lastly we look at the negatives for patterns. We notice the p over q has no negative, both neagtives, and one negative. We notice the pp over qq has all right negative and split negative. The rest we just memorize. I know it is all memorizatio! n, but if you look for patterns and differences and say the story while you write it becomes easier.

Now that we've thought through the chart, we write it neatly, and proceed to copy it daily.

Here's William at the end of filling in a chart. Mes! sy board and boy in PJs but that's the beauty of home centered ed. Logic is done before breakfast.

Now that we have A and B memorized, we will tackle Appendix B, which is the longest.
To spend a weekend with adults practicing your own logic skills, join my longtime Tutor, Jody Harvey, in Winston-Salem, NC for a Latin in a weekend retreat register at http://www.classicalconversationsbooks.com/extrandre.html.

Please comment on how this was or wasn't helpful.

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Quest of 3 genome musketeers
Pals who transformed biomedical research share Albany Med prize

By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY, Albany Times Union Staff writer

ALBANY -- Three good friends reunited Friday at Albany Medical Center. Three decades ago, they were the cheerleaders and the brains! behind the effort to map the human genome.

On Friday, they picked up the Albany Medical Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, which at $500,000 is the largest cash prize in medicine in the United States.

A few minutes into their "grand rounds" lecture -- a formal medical tradition where wisdom is shared among colleagues -- a voice announced over the Albany Med loudspeaker that fire alarm testing would begin immediately.

The scientists roared with laughter.

"We are the three genome musketeers," said Dr. Francis S. Collins, "We've been setting off fire alarms for 30 years."

In a nutshell: David Botstein, a geneticist, was one of the first people to suggest the idea of mapping the human genome; Eric Steven Lander, a mathematician, created new algorithms for analyzing genes and mapping complex multiple-gene diseases; and Collins, a physician and biologist, created faster mapping ! techniques and eventually oversaw the world-wide Human Genome ! Project from a post within the National Institutes of Health.

"They collectively unlocked and then opened the door that had previously barred us from understanding disease processes at the most basic genetic level," said James J. Barba, president of Albany Med.

Eric Lander, the mathematician on the prize winning team (pictured at left above), got a running start in developing his mathematical problem skills, as well as his teamwork and leadership skills, as a leader of his math team at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The USA Math Olympiads were just starting up when he was in high school, and he was among the first Americans to take those contests and to represent the USA at the International Math Olympiad in 1974.

This coming Tuesday and Wednesday, 300 students across the country will be taking the USA Math Olympiads. Six of the highest scoring students will follow in Eric Landers' hig! h school footsteps and qualify to represent our country at the 2010 International Math Olympiad to be held in Kazakhstan in July.

Congratulations and best wishes for a great adventure in problem solving in the coming weeks to all the students writing the USAMO this week, especially those from New York State, listed below, and--of course, especially to the five students from Albany Area Math Circle.

We know that the problem solving skills that all our New York State mathletes have already demonstrably acquired can be put to many important uses in the future. Our state and our country and our world have many problems to solve.

Albany Area Math Circle, Niskayuna NY:
Andrew Ardito
Matthew Babbitt
David Bieber (Niskayuna High School)
Schuyler Smith
Felix Sun (Shenendahoah High School)

Columbia Grammar & Prep School New York NYReed LaFleche

Comsewogue High School Port Jefferson NY
David Lawrence

Corning-Painted Post West High School Painted Post NY
Vasily Kuksenkov

Garden City High School, Garden City NY
Jan Gong

Great Neck South High School, Great Neck NY
Keaton Stubis

Hackley School Tarrytown NY
Michael Celentano

High School for Math, Sci & Engineering New York NY
Mo Lam

Hunter College High School New York NY
Andre Arslan
Meena Boppana
Paul Handorff
Bohao Zhou

New Hyde Park Memorial High School Hyde Park NY
Michael Hodgson

Penfield High School Penfield NY
Allen Liu

Stuyvesant High School New York NY
Milo Beckman
Junghwa Cha
Lijin Chen
Daniel Mendelsohn
Joseph Park Joseph
Yevginey Rudoy
Andrew Ryba
Zachary Young

The Dalton School New York NY
Alexander Iriza

Vestal Senior High School Vestal NY
Colin Lu

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Mixed Fractions

By: Marygrace Dela Cruz


Definition of a mixed fraction:
- mixed fractions are a combination of a whole number and a fraction.
- it can be converted into an improper fraction.


Example:

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