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How to Balance Sports and Homework?

How to Balance Sports and Homework?

There are plenty of articles on how to manage such combinations as homework+work, homework+social life, homework+household chores. However, there’s still something on the list waiting to fit in – sports. Can you pick which suits you better today: to be healthy student with lean, athletic body but with no idea of how to solve the easiest equation or to be a highbrow nerd with a pale face and the bag of bones? One should balance, you say, but how? Let’s consider this problem here so that you’d be able to choose your way. There are normally several ways to set sports among your other everyday activities, but get used to managing your time efficiently. (more…)

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The New Google Game

The New Google Game

For those who’d like to be trendy, Google Corporation has created an online game where users can guess the most popular searches. The correct answers are based on real searches from the real users and you are the one of them. Be sure, it’s more difficult than you can imagine. (more…)

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Video Games Help to Increase Student’s Productivity

Video Games Help to Increase Student's Productivity

Recent discoveries in the field of education can’t stop shocking. According to The Irish Times, one of them in the report by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),  states that video games help to improve exam performance in both females and males. It’s hard to believe, but every three years tests took place in 64 countries worldwide analyzing 15-year-olds. Jealous that you haven’t been tested, huh? We as well. Let’s at least see the result in figures. (more…)

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Can Too Much Homework Violate Student’s Rights?

Can Too Much Homework Violate Student's Rights?

Parents take their kids to school from the best motives hoping that it is exactly what they need to become happy, self-assertive and successful in the future. A deplorable fact is that sometimes educational establishments can fail to meet parents’ and child’s expectations. Schools, colleges, and universities nowadays are more likely to be the product of history rather than the result of scrupulous investigation of studying process and desire to improve it since the traditions haven’t changed, only the equipment was improved. The most noticeable and ambiguous issue among the number of pros and cons of contemporary schooling appears to be the amount of homework. Trying to find out how advantageous and useful homework is, we simply stuck between the questions of its size and relevance. Thus, does this activity violate our rights of freedom being troublesome and labor-intensive? (more…)

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How to Save Money at College

How to Save Money at College

According to 2014 reports, an average student at state college spends  from $8,000 annually to pay for his or her education, while their peers in private colleges give away (be ready!) almost $30,000 per year. A medium price for one-year course textbooks constitutes $600-1,000 each year. What’s next? Food. Typically, meal plan costs around $700 per semester, huh? Add your girlfriend, traveling, hobby, sports, and some fun during the weekend. Now what, an empty wallet? No good, let’s deal with it. (more…)

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Can my Mobile Cook an Egg? Hardly ever!

Egg on mobile phone

Although all representatives of modern technologies have more advantages than negative sides, you have to mind the implicit harm they emit. Just imagine how much it matters if two smarties can  cook an egg (according to this article). Wanna your brain scramble?.. Yup, take your mom away from the screen as she’ll definitely take away your phone. But wait, is it reality or just a trick? Here we’re going to destroy this myth made up by amateurs. Our team of experts has conducted a research for those guys who enjoy daily talking on the phone. Simple calculations we’re going to show will convince you of the fact that your gadget is not that harmful.  (more…)

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Find Probability of 64th Head in 99th Toss of Fair Coin

Let’s discuss how to find probability using multiplication rule and classical definition of probability. Consider the following problem. Suppose we’re asked to find a probability of obtaining 64^{th} head in the 99^{th} toss of fair coin. At the first glance the problem seems rather complicated, doesn’t it? Analyze carefully this question. In fact, we can divide the problem into two stages (more…)

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