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Technology schools here in the Philippines and abroad are growing in number. This is because there is an increasing need to cope up with technological advancements in many fields. In addition, this was brought about by the birth of the computer age which even up to this time is flourishing. Information technology […]

Education is highly important.  This is a fact of life.  There is a saying that goes like this: “Education is expensive but the lack of education is more expensive”.  This saying implies that one will definitely pay dearly for his ignorance sooner or later in life.

One of my “sidelines” during my first 5 years of teaching was tutoring mathematics to students. It was quite a good sideline. At that time, I earned some 100-150 pesos per hour for 2-3 hours per session. However, I find it somewhat disturbing knowing how many students (and even college graduates) find […]

Today (Monday, January 07, 2008) marks the official return of students to their classes here in the Philippines after a long holiday hiatus.
Parents once again are faced with the challenges of sustaining their children’s education starting from daily allowance. It is this period that is most difficult for parents since the holiday season is […]

Sudoku means ‘Single Digit Number’ in Japanese. These single digit numbers are placed in a matrix of boxes so as to maintain the sequence of not repeating these numbers in any of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines of the matrix.
The addiction to this puzzle has spread amazingly all around the world and people are […]

Thirty years ago, educators paid little attention to the work of cognitive scientists, and researchers in the nascent field of cognitive science worked far removed from classrooms. Today, cognitive researchers are spending more time working with teachers, testing and refining their theories in real classrooms where they can see how different settings and classroom interactions […]

While most fields of mathematics have created puzzles for both academic study and recreational use, recreational puzzles have also led to important developments in mathematics. The fields of topology and graph theory have their origins in the analysis of a popular puzzle by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. The puzzle is to find a path over […]