noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a history/physics/maths etc lesson
▪
I've got a history lesson this afternoon.
the Biology/Maths/History etc department (= in a university or school )
▪
the Chemistry department at Southampton University
the science/maths/history etc curriculum
▪
The English curriculum is divided into Language and Literature.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪
Taken together, these children are a proof of the illogical statement that boys are good in math and girls are not.
▪
Girls do better in math class.
new
▪
Unless Anderson has come up with a new math , the restriction means a $ 250, 000 reduction in gate receipts.
■ NOUN
class
▪
At least, he said, he could focus on his other math class .
▪
In a fourth-grade math class , children might estimate and research and graph the average summer temperatures of various 190 countries.
▪
Last year, Josh joined her fourth grade math class .
▪
Girls do better in math class .
curriculum
▪
But there are also advantages to a school district following a standard math curriculum .
problem
▪
But give them a math problem , and they wander around the room, daydream, or fidget.
▪
And phrasing math problems in art terms might enhance the appeal of math as well!
▪
Building computers that could solve difficult math problems and play a mean game of chess was relatively easy.
▪
For example, Go Mental is a tic-tac-toe math game where you have to solve math problems to earn points.
▪
As an adolescent, Bennett Lang relishes word math problems but is stumped by the things people say.
▪
Back at Central Park East yet another team of kids is tackling a complex math problem .
▪
It might appear to be a child-rearing problem or a personality problem, but it is really a math problem.
▪
Other six-year olds solve math problems for make-believe school, as illustrated in Figure 3. 4.
professor
▪
For example, one chair went to a female math professor .
▪
Neither did several other math professors , including Morris Hirsch, who was active in the anti-war movement when Kaczynski taught there.
▪
Co-star Jeff Bridges is a hapless Columbia math professor who turns to jelly in the presence of beautiful women.
▪
Y., a Long Island University math professor , pointed out that saving is often not so simple.
▪
Kaczynski was an assistant math professor at the campus from 1967 to 1969.
teacher
▪
And it was true that accredited math teachers were in short supply.
▪
A math teacher in Waukegan, Ill., he frequently travels to Chicago to catch the latest exhibitions.
▪
Film your sadistic high-school math teacher eating gravy with a fork?
▪
Remember the math teacher you really liked, the one who made math understandable, even fun?
■ VERB
do
▪
And George and Jimmy and Sofia say, Sure, no problem, just do the math .
▪
If a child who will not do math will do art, give the child art.
▪
She can read but she can not do math .
▪
His inauguration cost roughly $ 44 million. Do the math .
▪
I did the math and it adds up to chicken.
▪
Jessica and Joshua taught themselves how to read, write and do math , according to Hathaway.
learn
▪
But I think teachers are wise to recognize that important learning about literacy and math can take place during kindergarten.
▪
Hands-on activities, such as counting money to learn a math lesson, are carried out in every classroom.
▪
For example, brain circuits for learning math , logic and music are thought to develop between birth and age 4.
▪
All of this is far more essential to learning math than most parents realize.
read
▪
Similarly, it is possible for individuals to possess weak skills in reading or math while also being work-inhibited.
▪
They had a solid foundation in reading , writing, math , and other core skills.
▪
We provide parents with reading and math scores and high school placements.
▪
They may also fill out preschool worksheets intended as preparation for kindergarten reading and math .
▪
He was weak in reading and math .
teach
▪
This is the traditional approach to teaching math , an integral part of schools across the nation.
▪
The few men who teach biology, math and chemistry are all married except Mr Milligan.
▪
He continued to study every night on his own, teaching himself math and science from borrowed books.
use
▪
When my sons join me in cooking there are myriad opportunities for them to use math .
▪
Beha uses math and together they figure out what other tasks would require multiplying with fractions.
write
▪
They had a solid foundation in reading, writing , math , and other core skills.
▪
Jessica and Joshua taught themselves how to read, write and do math , according to Hathaway.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pure science/maths etc
▪
Critics have argued that an excessive commercial focus will lead researchers to ignore pure science.
▪
I breezed right through the first two years of pure science courses.
▪
She was also a physicist, one of the rare female students to study pure science.
▪
The question is, will Congress pay that much for pure science, with no clear technological benefit attached?
▪
The ruthless convenience of the pure science of lust?
▪
This was to be a contribution to pure science, altogether elegant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
I don't think Jim should major in math .
▪
Tina got a 95% on the math test.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
As an adolescent, Bennett Lang relishes word math problems but is stumped by the things people say.
▪
By sixth grade, the girl who was ahead of the boys in math is now even or behind them.
▪
Even the math behind a simple tax return carries assumptions that are open to challenge.
▪
For { math }, x is an attractor.
▪
In life -- as in math -- the key to solving any problem lies in the clear and proper identification thereof.
▪
Kaczynski was an assistant math professor at the campus from 1967 to 1969.
▪
Neither did several other math professors, including Morris Hirsch, who was active in the anti-war movement when Kaczynski taught there.
▪
They do need to know math and language, but music touches the soul.