Early this morning my niece was struggling to know how to round off and sum numbers so that she could get the hang of it for today's test, in what I think was one of the most difficult schools I ever witnessed (roughly Php120,000 of tuition and other needs per year, in exchange for a very advanced curriculum ( Read more... )

The Manga Guide to StatisticsIn a world in which most young people are of the TL;DR variety, listen to pop music, and the last thing they want are more numbers, this book (and others in that site) might help make things easier. This is how to define "edutainment". xD ( Read more... )

Fixing Online Gaming Idiocy: A Psychological Approach
Glory and Shame: Powerful Psychology in Multiplayer Online Games
How To Compare Online Gaming Businesses


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Doing some research for some fanfic work... What's that black peg/cylinder that are given to graduating students on graduation day ceremonies? I figured that might contain a diploma or at least a certificate.

Otherwise, I'm forum-diving in Azrael's backyard to look around:
Grading System
F'ed Up Schools -- any worse than Lillian and Sachiko will ( Read more... )

I'm ready to hit the sack, after taking some time to relearn once more about databases, SQL statements and data modeling; reading everything about the database management stuff I used to study and review; poring over the MySQL Workbench to review whether the schema I sketched out would work ( Read more... )

Exit sushi, enter chicken curry ( Read more... )

Oddity of the evening: I had to instruct a very-high-level player -- powerful and he'd ground up so far enough more than I did in a year -- to finish off his quests so that he can get some new skill points ( Read more... )

...whether to be used as a principal language of instruction.

Here's my two cents: it's not the issue of what language should be used, it's how much the average Filipino reads. Education and literacy still gets short shrift here. Little support for public libraries, so many students are forced to copy-paste from faulty Wikipedia or the pricey ( Read more... )

I don't like some school textbooks that ain't objective enough and too biased, like this text about family planning where the author is apparently in overwhelming favor of the natural method over the artificial that I'm concluding he'd lived too long in the monastery. It's not a knock on the natural method; it's just that I'm real disappointed ( Read more... )