Cooking for a Crowd? Need Large Quantity Recipes? Why Not Create Your Own? by Debra Haydel
... It is also a matter of "doing the math". To serve 25 with a 4-serving recipe, you can cook 5-6 individual batches of that recipe or, you can expand the recipe (no more then 2-4 times) and cook in batches accordingly. For example, to serve 25 from a 4-serving recipe, double the recipe to 8 and cook three batches or, triple it and cook two batches. To serve 18 with a 6-serving recipe, cook it three times or cook one 6-serving batch and one batch that has been doubled to serve 12.

Parents' Complaints --- Arrogant Public Schools Turn a Deaf Ear by Joel Turtel
... However, the math-teaching policy for most public schools today is that all children beginning in kindergarten have access to calculators at all times to do math problems. Most school districts make important teaching-method or curriculum decisions in secret, without parents’ knowledge or approval. A parent’s only recourse is to complain to principals or school authorities after these authorities have dictated their curriculum or teaching methods, and the parent sees the damage to their ...

Computers Are Stupid, Stupid, Stupid! by Mike Bryant
... Computers are really stupid machines-- they can only do very limited tasks like basic math (add, subtract, etc). When you get down to it, a computer is really nothing more than a souped-up calculator. In fact, instead of a fancy calculator, you could think of a computer as nothing but a bunch, a very large bunch, of on and off switches. That's all a computer is, a whole lotta off and on switches. Of course these switches can go from off to on and back again many more times in one second ...

Prognosis of Failure in School Math by Victor Guskov
... The prediction of their failure in math will be right in about 95 cases of 100. It must be noted in conclusion that the level of elementary mental computational skills of actively working pupils only do not decreases in due course. If a pupil uses a calculator instead of mental computations, works passively at lessons and does not carry out home works himself/herself, then the level decreases gradually.

Did eBay Open the Door for Google? by James Newton
... Problem is, this is a highly competitive market and he might price himself out of sales. The math is done, does this seller have any chance to earn money on eBay? I think Bill has forgotten that buyers come to eBay because of the sellers, so they can buy it. If it aint there, they won't be coming. Bill, it's not a good idea to chase sellers away. 83% of your listings hmmm. Ok Google (or anyone with an auction site), looks like eBay wants to hand over the keys to..

Small Business Marketing Review - Strategic Database Marketing by Craig Lutz-Priefert
... You don’t have to be a statistics wizard to read the book; although basic business sense is certainly helpful. At its core, Hughes’ thesis is simple: companies can implement database marketing to improve their sales through building stronger relationships with their best customers. The challenge, of course, is actually pulling it off. Many have tried, not all successfully. Hughes has some case studies that you can use to help you avoid some of the more costly mistakes some of the large ...

R U Wurreed Cuz Yur Cid Kant Spel? by Jeffrey Hauser
... They already rely on calculators for all their math solutions. The other day, I made the mistake of giving a fast food cashier a five-dollar bill and a quarter as an afterthought, when the bill was $4.20. What was I thinking? They took an extra minute to figure out what to do. The problem was, they had already entered just the five dollar bill in the system. Time to get a supervisor. This is just one instance. Now, I’m not picking on my college daughter, but I’ll use her as ...

Marketing for Business Leaders: Three Steps to Increase Marketing Effectiveness by Susan Tatum
... The "how much" is easily answered using basic math. Start with your sales goals and work backward. You'll need to answer the following questions: * What is our annual new business revenue goal? * How many new customers does this represent? * What percentage of qualified opportunities do we actually close? * What percentage of leads actually become qualified opportunities? Using this information, you can determine how many new inquiries your marketing must generate in order for the sales ...