Archive for the 'Education Research' Category

PRC Requirements for Initial Registration of Professional License

I might not be able to go online for a day (again) because my wife and I are going to Baguio City. This is in view of her application for a professional license (Registered Nurse). I did not want us to go there during the Holy Week because of practical reasons. Baguio City is overcrowded [...]

The Importance of Seminars in Education, Engineering and Electronics

Many of you must have attended a seminar, training or conference. In applying for a job, your resume’s “Trainings/Seminars/Conferences Attended” section is one area of focus of most HRD Managers/Officers. This is because trainings, seminars and conferences aim to provide you with supplemental learning which you typically cannot learn inside a classroom.

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Technology Schools Are Growing in Number Worldwide

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 [...]

Online Education: Earn Your College Degree at the Convenience of Your Home

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.

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How Difficult is Mathematics to You?

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 [...]

Filipino Students Return to Class After Holiday Hiatus

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 – A Game for Math Lovers

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 [...]

Importance of Instructional Materials in Education

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 [...]

A Brief History of Puzzles

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 [...]