41. The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page fuzzy math The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan (Hardcover Edition, With fuzzy math, Paul Krugman dissects the Bush tax proposal and shows us who http://www.pkarchive.org/book/books.html

BOOKS Krugman has written or edited many many books. Most are, of course, the usual arcane texts, but the ones that have put him in 'Who's Who' are his Economics for Everyman type books. Here is a list, with links to their sales pages in Amazon. Links to all editions of each book are provided along with dates published, although only a picture of the most recent edition is shown. Synopsi are taken either from the Amazon review or the back cover. Krugman/Wells: Principles of Economics (1st Edition, Spring 2004) Other Editions: None yet Coming attraction : No, not Attack of the Clones . Krugman/Wells, the principles textbook, is moving closer to physical reality - sufficiently so that the publisher has established a website . This, by the way, is how I spend most of my time these days. The current state of affairs is that the micro chapters exist in something quite close to final form; the macro chapters are much rawer. ETA for the actual books is now Dec. 03. " from The Official Paul Krugman Web Site The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (Paperback Edition, August, 2004)

42. Fuzzy Math And Stock Options (washingtonpost.com) fuzzy math And Stock Options. By Warren Buffett Tuesday, July 6, 2004; Page A19.Until now the record for mathematical lunacy by a legislative body has been http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29807-2004Jul5.html

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43. An Intrepid Foe Of Warm-and-Fuzzy Math (washingtonpost.com) An Intrepid Foe of Warmand-fuzzy math. By Jay Mathews. Washington Post StaffWriter Tuesday, December 23, 2003; Page A06 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A23273

44. Fuzzy Math In Apple Harvest? | News.blog | CNET News.com fuzzy math in Apple harvest? Apple Computer saw its personal computer shipmentsjump considerably during the first quarter, as we reported Friday. http://netscape.com.com/2061-10792_3-5678002.html

CNET News.com CNET tech sites: Product reviews Shop Tech news Downloads ... Advertising Track thousands of Web sites in one place: Newsburst A News.com report on configurations, features and trends. April 20, 2005 8:07 AM PDT Fuzzy math in Apple harvest? Apple Computer saw its personal computer shipments jump considerably during the first quarter, as we reported Friday. The numbers got even better this week. That's because IDC, which published its first quarter PC shipment figures last Friday, left out a chunk of Apple shipments from its U.S. tally. It said at the time that Apple turned out 450,000 units in the United States during the quarter. But on Monday it quietly revised that figure upward to 565,000. The increase in Apple's unit shipments bumped it up to a 3.9 percent share of the market, making it the fifth largest computer maker in the U.S. for the quarter. Our story now reflects that change. Apple would still have to make up some ground to catch Gateway or IBM, the third and fourth placed PC makers in the U.S. IDC says Gateway and IBM shipped 830,000 and 627,000 units, respectively, during the quarter. But the Mac maker's whopping 45.5 percent year-over-year increase in shipments, as reported by IDC, was surely the envy of all. The next best, Dell, mustered shipment growth of just over 8 percent.

45. Fuzzy Math The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to protectthe environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice. http://www.newdream.org/newsletter/fuzzymath.php

More Time More Fun More Nature More Fairness ... Collapse All Fuzzy Math: Cook the Planet, Cook the Books, Call it Growth by Jonathan Rowe Several months ago a professor at the University of North Carolina published findings that turned beliefs about the economy upside down. Health improves, he said, as the economy goes down. When the economy declines, to a point at least, deaths, smoking, obesity, heavy drinking, heart disease and some kinds of back problems all decline as well. "Sounds unlikely," said The New York Times. And indeed it is, by the standard reckonings at least. We all know that an expanding economy makes us better off - or do we? Another study, this one in England, found that shopping, which is the drive train of the entire economy, and which is supposed to make people feel good, actually can make them depressed. "For significant numbers, dissatisfaction is now part of the shopping process," one of the authors said. (As though we needed a study to tell us that.) What's going on here? How could we feel better when the experts say we should feel worse, and worse when they say we should feel better? Could it be that economists don't know up from down to begin with?

46. TCS: Tech Central Station - AIDS And Fuzzy Math AIDS and fuzzy math. By Michael Fumento, Published, 07/15/2004. EMail Bookmark Print Save. TCS. At least 30 percent of the entire adult population http://www.techcentralstation.com/071504E.html

HOME Michael Fumento Author, journalist and attorney Email Author Biographical related articles ABC vs. CNN Slow and Steady Wins the Race Yankee, Stay Home Obstacle Course ... Lords of Poverty articles by author Cleaner Air Brings Dirtier Tricks The "Cancer Epidemic" that Never Was An End to Alzheimer's? Are We Out of Gas? ... Why the Shredded Wheat? Font Size: AIDS and Fuzzy Math By Michael Fumento Published E-Mail Bookmark Print Save TCS "At least 30 percent of the entire adult population of Central Africa is infected with the AIDS virus," a doctor tells a U.S. newspaper. A high Ugandan official says that within two years his nation will "be a desert." ABC News Nightline declares that within 12 years "50 million Africans may have died of AIDS." Actually, those statements and predictions were all made between 1986 and 1988. Yet since 1985, Central Africa's population has increased over 70 percent while Uganda 's has nearly doubled. Japan , conversely, has close to no AIDS cases yet its population growth has essentially stopped.

47. Tad DeHaven On Joshua Bolten & The Budget On NRO Financial Bolten’s fuzzy math His budget figures are misleading and suspicious. By TadDeHaven. Joshua Bolten, the president s budget chief, took to the opinion pages http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/dehaven200312190904.asp

cddcodebase = "/";cddcodebase454632 = "/"; HELP E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend ... Print Version December 19, 2003, 9:04 a.m. His budget figures are misleading and suspicious. By Tad DeHaven J oshua Bolten, the president's budget chief, took to the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal a week ago to defend the Bush administration's record on the budget amid rising complaints. Many of those complaints, as Bolten's piece notes, are coming from fiscal conservatives dismayed by the massive growth in federal spending under Bush. Over the past week, almost every major news outlet has carried front-page stories on the rising tide of conservative discontent. Many people who support the president's tax cuts and his conduct of the war can no longer stomach his expansion of big government via big spending. If Bolten's response to the critics in the Wall Street Journal represents the best case the administration can make for itself, the criticism is only going to spread and multiply. Bolten begins by trotting out the same tiresome excuses we've been hearing for several years: The deficit was caused, first, by declining federal revenues resulting from a sluggish economy and, second, by the need to spend money to fight terrorism. These explanations are partly true. But the administration could have responded to these trends by cutting low-priority areas of the budget. Instead, Bush signed every spending bill that crossed his desk.

48. Fuzzy Math, Fuzzy Reading, Fuzzy Science And Helter-Skelter Fuzzy Budget Math; Fuzzy Reading; Fuzzy Science. Fuzzy Budget Math. It is especiallyironic that we now see fuzzy math appear in the new Federal budget, http://nochildleft.com/2003/apr03fuzzy.html

Volume I, Number 4, April, 2003 for information. Fuzzy Math Fuzzy Reading and Fuzzy Science by Jamie McKenzie ( about the author During the last presidential election campaign, President Bush attacked his opponent for budget figures he called "fuzzy math." This article will examine several examples of fuzzy thinking, science, reading and math emerging as part of the new Federal education law - NCLB/ESEA - as it is being implemented by the ED Department. Fuzzy Budget Math Fuzzy Reading Fuzzy Science Fuzzy Budget Math It is especially ironic that we now see "fuzzy math" appear in the new Federal budget, as deficit spending and tax breaks for the wealthy become keystones of the administration's policies. Deficit spending is accompanied by a drastic reduction in the amount originally promised to fuel expensive new NCLB mandates. Whatever happened to a balanced budget and a commitment to domestic priorities? The failure to fund NCLB at promised levels eliminates one of the main selling points of the original law - the supposed availability of financial assistance and rewards to districts and schools that improve learning results, especially for disadvantaged students. Inadequate funding combined with tough regulations and new expenditures mandated by NCLB amount to a collapse of policy, especially as the weak

49. Blogs For Bush: Fuzzy Math On Abortion Numbers fuzzy math On Abortion Numbers. Michelle Malkin has the story on Hillary Clintonusing bogus numbers to attack President Bush s record on abortion. http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/003564.html

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50. Ezra Klein: Karl Rove's Fuzzy Math, Part #871 http//www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2958446. Listed below are links to weblogsthat reference Karl Rove s fuzzy math, Part 871 http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/karl_roves_fuzz.html

hostName = '.typepad.com'; Capitalist Corner Wish List Main August 06, 2005 Karl Rove's Fuzzy Math, Part #871 Posted by Nick Beaudrot It's time to reach down into the bottom of your desk, get out your slide rule, an abacus, a quill pen, and a piece of carbon paper. We'll take a look at the turnout and election returns from this Tuesday's special election, and see if there are any clues pointing the DCCC where they should go next. lots of words and pretty pictures to follow Special elections are won as much on turnout as on issues or TV ads. Why? Since the number of voters in a special election is small compared to Presidential or even midterm elections, it's possible to score an upset victory by dragging more of your supporters to the polls. To give you an idea of what kind of effort we're talking about, around 80,000 people in the Ohio 2nd voted for Kerry; Hackett could have won the election simply by finding another 5% of those people and making sure they vote. We can get a sense of which counties had the most "retention" the percentage of Presidential voters who came back for a second helping in the special election by looking at the turnout rates from 2004 , then comparing them to the turnout from the 2005 election . We see immediately that the residents of Scioto County, and to a lesser extent Hamilton County, were really excited to go cast a ballot in this congressional race; we don't know who they're voting for yet, but they're excited to go vote for someone. Meanwhile, the good people of Pike County and Warren County are either too busy to go vote, or they don't feel that either candidate is speaking to their worries.

51. Texas Public Policy Foundation fuzzy math has been shown to hurt children academically, The “fuzzy math”textbooks that were unsuccessfully promoted by the Statewide Systemic http://www.tppf.org/pau/1999/pau052499.html

TexasPolicy.com Home September 16, 2005 "By hearing high-caliber experts – whether I agree with them or not – discuss their policy positions in one setting at TPPF’s policy orientation is of great educational value to my colleagues and to me." - State Representative Fred Hill What Others Say About Us Job Opportunity The Foundation is now hiring for the position of Development Associate. Learn more! About the Foundation The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government, free markets, private property rights, individual liberty and personal responsibility. The Foundation seeks to improve Texas government by producing academically sound research on important issues offered to policy makers, opinion leaders, the media and general public. Learn more about the Foundation in our video, Ideas Into Action Research Link Acton Institute View all Research Links Highlighted Research Restorative Justice In Texas This report highlights several existing successful restorative justice programs in Texas and offers recommendations based on effective restorative practices in other jurisdictions. Because crime is first and foremost an offense against the victim — victims should be provided with enhanced restitution, greater input in sentencing, and a mechanism for securing prosecution when local prosecutors decline to act. With the state's prisons approaching capacity with 150,000 inmates and more than half a million Texans on parole or probation, the key to reducing long-term incarceration and supervision costs is lowering the recidivism rate. This requires transforming, not simply warehousing, offenders through initiatives such as victim-offender interaction programs that emphasize accountability and penance.

52. Fuzzy Math Books To Avoid Warning against fuzzy math books. The advocates of the new, fuzzy math havepracticed their rhetoric well. They speak of higherorder thinking, http://www.homeschoolmath.net/fuzzy_math.php

HOMESCHOOL MATH Computer Science, Pure and Simple - a computer science curriculum for homeschoolers! Let your kids learn Logo, HTML, how to make web pages, office applications, and more. From grade 5 till high school. Home Ebooks 1st-5th grade Worksheets Curriculum guide ... Reviews Fuzzy math - books you are better off NOT using This article applies to some low-quality math books used in public schools. Homeschooling parents might take note if you're in the habit of acquiring cheap or free used school books for example for Algebra. The website www.mathematicallycorrect.com is devoted to the concerns raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of US schools by the New-New Math ( also called Fuzzy Math and Mickey-Mouse Math) and the need to restore basic skills to math education. As a homeschooler, you will be able to avoid these horrible new math programs used in some public schools. Though you can probably find these books cheap in thrift stores if schools are using them in your area, they might not be a good idea from the mathematical point of view. For more information, see Mathematics Program Reviews and Information at their website.

53. An A-Maze-ing Approach To Math By BARRY GARELICK - Education Next - Spring 2005 “standardsbased math,” “new new math,” and, most commonly, “fuzzy math.”Although the education theories on which much of fuzzy math is based are http://www.educationnext.org/20052/28.html

An A-Maze-ing Approach To Math by BARRY GARELICK I am not a mathematics teacher, but I have a degree in mathematics and an intense interest in how the subject is taught. When I retire, I would like to teach math, which is why I started tutoring high school students in my spare time three years ago. My first student was a 9th grader having difficulty with geometry. He stated his problem succinctly: “I don’t know how to do proofs.” Confronted with what I thought could be a common problem, I was still unaware that what I was really seeing was a national crisis in mathematics education. Here’s some of what I would soon learn: —Only 55 percent of 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam in math correctly answered the question, “How many pieces of string will you have if you divide 3/4 yard of string into pieces each 1/8 yard long?” —In an international math test taken by students worldwide in 1995 (the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS), U.S. student math proficiency for 8th graders fell below the international average (28th out of 41 countries). For 12th grade, U.S. math performance was among the lowest (18th of the 21 countries participating). —In 1989 the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published its Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics —an extensive set of mathematics standards for grades K–12 which de-emphasized memorization of number facts, the learning of proofs, and algebraic skills, but encouraged the use of calculators and “discovery learning.”

54. Pejmanesque: FUZZY MATH fuzzy math. Jane Galt notes that the New York Times is playing around with numbersthe way younglings are oftentimes tempted to play around with electrical http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/010593.html

Pejmanesque Now blogging at A Chequer-board of Nights and Days (http://www.chequer-board.net) Main June 08, 2005 FUZZY MATH Jane Galt notes that the New York Times is playing around with numbers the way younglings are oftentimes tempted to play around with electrical sockets. Never a pretty sight. TrackBack Comments Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments: SHOWER ME WITH FILTHY LUCRE KEEPING TRACK var go_mem="Pejmanesque"; Get a GoStats hit counter Powered by Movable Type 2.63

55. Federal Drug Use Surveys And Fuzzy Math By Paul Armentano Federal Drug Use Surveys and fuzzy math. by Paul Armentano by Paul Armentano.Here’s the good news. Only a tiny percentage of Americans indulge in the use http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/armentano-p2.html

Home About Columnists Blog ... Donate Federal Drug Use Surveys and Fuzzy Math by Paul Armentano by Paul Armentano Here’s the good news. Only a tiny percentage of Americans indulge in the use of illicit, so called "hard" drugs like heroin and cocaine, according to annual survey data released this month by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Here’s the bad news. The government’s figures are not to be taken seriously. Nor should they be. In 2003, "an estimated 2.3 million (1.0 percent of the US population aged 12 or older) were current cocaine users, 604,000 of whom used crack," SAMHSA reported in its latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. In addition, "Hallucinogens were used by 1.0 millions persons, and there were an estimated 119,000 current heroin users." Responding to the survey, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson called the data "encouraging." A more appropriate response might have been: "Balderdash!"

56. Value Judgment: Fuzzy Math Jr. fuzzy math Jr. George Bush has a problem with math. Because he not only dividesAmerica but the budget numbers don t add up. The problems of the middle http://www.valuejudgment.org/archives/000772.html

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57. Navistar's Fuzzy Math [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] April 25, 2005 Navistar can t get things to add up, not even when paying its CFO. http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05042510.htm

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58. Salon.com Politics | Mitch Daniels' Fuzzy Math Mitch Daniels fuzzy math The Bush budget director has a little problem with thetruth. Editor s note With this column, we are proud to introduce to our http://www.salon.com/politics/col/spinsanity/2002/02/12/daniels/

Search About Salon Table Talk Advertise in Salon ... Search All of Salon.com Only Politics Directory Hot Topics Democrats Green Party Spinsanity George W. Bush ... World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks Articles by date All of Salon.com By department Books Comics ... Table Talk [Spirited Salon forums] Posts of the week The Well [Pioneering members-only discussions] Wondering about the golden age of groupies? Sound Off E-mail Salon Send us a Letter to the Editor Recent Letters Downloads Get Salon.com on your PDA Mitch Daniels' fuzzy math The Bush budget director has a little problem with the truth. Editor's note: With this column, we are proud to introduce to our readers a new column, Spinsanity. To learn more about the column and the young men behind it, click here. By Brendan Nyhan Mitch Daniels was an unusual choice to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Bush White House. A former political operative and pharmaceutical executive, he was tapped for the position last year despite a lack of experience in the intricacies of the federal budget. Since then, Daniels has become a key figure in the administration , helping design policies and pressing publicly for their enactment.

59. The Myths And Realities About Fuzzy Math The Myths and Realities about fuzzy math Monday, July 4, 2005 Sandra Stotsky.For almost two decades, mathematics education in K12 classrooms has been http://www.educationnews.org/myths-and-realities-about-fuzzy-math.htm

EducationNews.org Thursday, September 15, 2005 Free On-Line Subscription Ranked #1 on the Internet for EducationNews Bulletin Board Daily EducationNews ... Home Volunteers needed - "Supporting Our Children With Special Needs" Please donate online today - DePelchin Children's Center About Us Search EducationNews.org Search www LDAdvocates.com Martin H aberman Reports Star Principals Selection Interview ... INSPIRE Project Kindergarten Readiness Columnists Alan Haskvitz Christina Asquith Daniel Pryzbyla Dennis Redovich ... George Scott Senior Editorial Writer Jann Flury Jimmy Kilpatrick Editor Kathleen P. Loftus Martin Haberman Marty Solomon Mike Freedman ... Phonemic Awareness: What Does it Mean? including other article on reading. ReadbyGrade3 discussion group Call for Papers "In Defense of Testing" Series The Myths and Realities about "FUZZY MATH" Monday, July 4, 2005 Sandra Stotsky For almost two decades, mathematics education in K-12 classrooms has been driven by unsupported pedagogical theories constructed in our schools of education and propagated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Their curricular and pedagogical "vision" for mathematics education reform, articulated in the two NCTM standards documents (1989 and 2000), has dominated local, state, and federal education decision-making and policies, as well as public discussions and press coverage. But many parents, mathematics experts, and K-12 teachers of mathematics do not share this vision. They reject the NCTM doctrine and model for mathematics reform. The views of this diverse constituency, comprised of mathematicians, scientists, engineers, K-12 teachers of mathematics, educational researchers, and concerned parents across our nation have been regularly marginalized by the dominant voice of mathematics educators in our schools of education and of NCTM officials. This constituency's expertise is often entirely absent from the decision-making process.

60. Fuzzy Math In Space - News Education Science Magazines Technology Science News E Discover Magazine Educator s Guide March 2004 fuzzy math in Space.An Educators Guide To. fuzzy math in Space. Guide by Michael DiSpezio http://www.discover.com/educators-guide/mar-04/

Magazine Subscribers and Discover.com Members Login Here Not a Subscriber Member Entire Site Advanced Search Discover Magazine Educator's Guide March 2004 An Educators Guide To: Fuzzy Math in Space Guide by Michael DiSpezio Look into the evening sky. Most of the movements and patterns that you observe are rooted in numerical and physical relationships. Orbital speed, position, rotation and planetary alignment are described by an assortment of laws and equations. Yet, on more critical observation, the actual behaviors of these celestial bodies may vary from the ideal. This doesn't mean the theories are wrong. It's just a reminder that we need to consider the natural disorder of systems. In addition to this fuzziness, there appears to be serendipity at work as well. Marking Out an Orbit As planets travel around the sun, they follow an elliptical (oval) orbit. Like all ellipses, these orbits can be interpreted as a set of points that have a fixed distance sum to two points (called foci). In this activity, you ll use the illustration on page 28 as a base on which to construct a model of the elliptical orbit of the planet Mars.

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