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...fantasy craze has even crept into our educational system. Dan Flockhart, a former middle-school math teacher in California, designed a fantasy-based curriculum that thousands of teachers are using in their classrooms. His workbook, Fantasy Football and Mathematics, encourages students to draft teams and compute points according to formulas that incorporate basic math concepts like decimals, fractions and negative integers. But before you conclude that this trend is the final sign that American education is doomed, know this: fantasy math may be working. According to preliminary research by the University of Mississippi, most teachers who use Flockhart's program...
Editor’s Note: This article required gender-neutral pronouns. FM form follows the grammatical rules outlined in Kate Bornstein’s “My Gender Workbook.” E.g. “Ze likes hirself untucked...
...screams to attend to. Nevertheless, as the demand for e-books grows, bookstores should watch their backs—someday, you may have to look for your course packs online. You might not even have to wait for someday: students deterred by the price of the $60 Ec 1010a workbook can already download a free copy on Scribd.com...
...kids, what are they doing? They're creating the rules that they then agree to subordinate their impulses to. I mean, that's extraordinarily powerful. But that doesn't hit you in the face when you see kids playing. It looks like, oh, we could use this time for workbook work...
...spring semester of 2006—claims to possess the knowledge necessary to live a happier, more fulfilling life. But unlike many other self-help books, "Happier" does not claim to have a quick fix, instead making a more realistic promise: by using the hardback as a workbook, one may develop the habits and attitudes that lead to happiness...