It is virtually impossible to do work on a problem without feeling that it is important.
Providing feedback to students, explaining why their answers were right or wrong, and then allowing students to continue to work on a problem until they have it right and master the concept produces statistically significant gains in student learning.
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His work focuses on a simple problem with a single asteroid, but anybody who has played the game knows that there are far more complicated setups as well.
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And my hope is, is that the Republicans who have said no and have seen their party I think use some unfortunate rhetoric around this issue, my hope is, is that they come back and say, you know, this is something that we can work on together to solve a problem instead of trying to score political points.
Professor Natelson explained how the practice could work on a domestic level in areas where arsenic was a big problem, such as in Bangladesh.
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At Stanford, he started a company to work on the problem, but the university refused to count his hours on the project as academic units.
Throughout the city, it is hard to distinguish "social" housing from privately rented accommodation, though there are three or four estates like Vahrenheide where most of the tenants are out of work or on social security and there is a problem with vandalism and drugs.
Yet most museums focus on the problem only when a work is threatened with export.
Heavy reliance on information technology is confined to a relatively small group of countries, most of which began work early on solving the problem.
Inquiries have got under way after Reactor 1 at the Wylfa nuclear power station on Anglesey was stopped due to a problem with refuelling work.
Ralph Mosley, now chairman and chief executive of Southwestern, remembers the time in the 1970s that Hays left his family on Easter weekend and flew from Nashville to Indiana to work out a printing problem that an underling might have handled.
Spain's problem is that it has to contend with a Brussels ban on work permits, whereas northern Europe was able to import its labour legally when it needed it in the 1970s.
All governments are tackling their other most pressing problem: a prospective rise in pension costs that threatens to undo all their good work on budget deficits.
After you've met with him or her to discuss a particular project, take the time to carefully think through the problem before racing ahead on the work.
People who work on computers or watch television for four or more hours a day are 125 percent more likely to suffer a major heart problem than those who spend two hours or less.
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By turning their problem into a game, the scientists have harnessed thousands of human brains without specialist knowledge to work on protein-folding, says Adrien Treuille, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who helped to develop the program.
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