Topic: Brian Foley
KenKen is the hottest puzzle craze since Sudoku. It combines the logic of a Sudoku puzzle with arithmetic. You have to add, subtract, multiply and divide to arrive at the numbers given in KenKen puzzle. In KenKen, like Sudoku, there is a ...
You many have just heard of KenKen. It's the invention of a Japanese math teacher named Tetsuya Miyamoto, who says, "I believe that if you give children good learning materials, they will think and learn and grow on their own." Imagine ...
If your child or student is learning to multiply, a good way to have them start out is learn skip counting. Skip counting is simply counting by a whole number other than one. It's counting by twos, threes, fours, etc. For ...
Teachers have uttered the mantra of "you must show the work!" since any of us can remember. But is there any good reason for it? The only reason that would make sense is to find out if the child understood the problem ...
ALBANYBegin the office jockeying.For all the talk of equitable treatment, Republicans and Democrats expect a major shake-up in the size and location of offices for various state senators and their staffers.These decisions are made by the secretary of the Senate ...
Can you do the nine-times tables on your fingers? When you learn how, you'll never have to stare at the multiplication tables charts for nine again. The best part is, you only need to be able to count in order to ...
The best tools for manipulating digits are your hands. (You might want to read that sentence again.) Do you get the meaning? The word "manipulate" comes from the Latin world for "hand". The word "digit" comes from the Latin world for "finger ...
Do you have a child who needs a confidence-boost in school? Imagine if your child knew the multiplication tables up to 20. It would make him or her seem like a genius compared to most school children who have problems even remembering ...
Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, on the State Senate cliffhanger: We dont know yet. We think we are going to flip the New York State Senate from Republican to Democrat-hyphen-Working Families.Mr. Cantor was at the state Democrats ...
Alec Baldwin robocalls for Brian Foley! [Liz]Both Clintons are robocalling for State Senate candidate Joe Addabbo. [CC] Whoever wins Buffalo's congressional race--Alice Kryzan or Chris Lee--could lose the job when the state sheds a congressional district in 2012. [Noticing New ...
