steven cotterman

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  • Socratic Pythagorean Theorem
    Do you want your students to easily master the Pythagorean Theorem? Allow them then to discover the theory for themselves.
  • Tyler Perry Copyright Trial: A View from a Juror
    As a juror on the Tyler Perry copy write case, I have some insights into this trial and the resulting verdict.
  • How to Survive the Coming Socialist State
    With the almost certain probability that Obama will be the next president, the U.S. will become just another failing socialist state. With Pelosi heading the House and Reed leading the Senate, Obama will support every socialist proposal that they pass.
  • Obama's Health Care Plan?
    Obama has time and again said that "prevention" would be a major part of his healthcare plan. Without defining what type of prevention this covers this proposition opens up all sorts of troublesome possibilities
  • How to Pay Down the National Debt
    Paying down the National Debt must be our governments' highest priority. At 10 trillion dollars and growing, just paying the interest each year ranks this item as one of the top four expenditures in the budget.
  • Pelosi, Another Failure of Leadership
    Pelosi kills the Financial Baleout bill
  • Education Fallacies
    Political and educational leaders continue to espouse the need for more and higher level education for the masses. Only those with technical or university degrees can achieve the "American Dream".
  • THE SCARY SIDE of BARACK OBAMA
    Michelle Obama's natural relaxed expression was a severe down turned tight lipped mouth. People only get this type of natural expression through years of anger, sadness, and aggression.
  • Accidental Perfect Cornbread
    The best discoveries are often made by accident. This is especially true when it concerns cooking recipes. Following many years of making cornbread, I accidentally discovered how to make truly delightful cornbread.
  • How to Make a Criminal
    Take a state, like Texas, mix in punitive traffic laws, add a dash of single mother working for just over minimum wage and presto you have a downward spiral toward becoming a criminal.
  • NEWS, NEWS, MY KINGDOM for SOME NEWS
    News reporting is a thing of the past. No longer can you pickup a newspaper or turn on television and find out what is going on in the world today.
  • The Great Gas Mileage Scam
    The Ford Motor Company is either inept or perpetuating a scam on its customers. For the past 20 years, it has improved the bells and whistles on each year's new car yet hasn't improved gas mileage by one mile.
  • Are You Follower of Lucifer?
    Lucifer, also known as Satan, is the "son of the morning" (Isa 14:12), the bright and shining daystar. He is not the hideous, red faced, horned monster shown in books and on screen.
  • Hillary Clinton Will Be President
    Hillary Clinton will be elected president. Given the events outlined in the Bible, and the predictions for 2012, a power hungry megalomaniac must be president when the prophesied disaster occurs.
  • Solving "Distance, Rate, Time" Problems Using a Standard Method
    DiRT is a highly structured method of solving those dreaded distance rate time algebra word problems.
  • Hillary Clinton Says Why She Should Not Be Nominated
    Senator Hillary Clinton has essentially stated in her recent speeches that she should not be the Democrat nominee for president. By her own admission, her history and senatorial performance make her a poor choice.
  • Translating Word Problems into Math Problems
    If your students are well versed in the English language, they can easily turn those pesky word problems into algebraic equations. Every English sentence can be expressed mathematically.
  • Easy Factoring: Algebraic Quadratic Equations
    Here is a method of factoring algebraic quadratic equation problems that is simple and elegant. It breaks the quadratic equation down into a basic form that can easily determine the factors.
  • The Four Horsemen Have Ridden
    For those of you who are waiting for the Four Horsemen of the bible to ride, you are way behind the times. They are already here.
  • Washington Idiots Declare Kids Shouldn't Use Cold Medicines
    Washington panel (read: we'll tell you how to raise your kids, your too dumb to do it) says not to use cold medicines for children under 6 years old.
  • Racism 1
    Personal reflections on racism over the years.
  • Racism 2
    Ask a thousand people if slavery in America was illegal and you would get one thousand saying yes. They would also be totally wrong. Not only is slavery legal in the USA, but it is overly and covertly practiced every day
  • Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal? Rehabilitation Can Work, If Society Takes it Seriously
    Should a criminal be punished or rehabilitated? The problem has been that our system of justice has tried to rehabilitate prisoners while at the same time trying to punish them. This has been a dismal failure. There is a better alternative.
  • Thousands Left Out of Minimum Wage Increase
    Thousands of low wage workers are left out of the new federal minimum wage increase. Workers who make tips made $2.13 an hour prior to July 24 and still only make $2.13 an hour after that date. What follows is a description of one actual worker.
  • Traditional Schools? There is a Better Way: Mastery Education
    The traditional grade level approach to education has been a failure for over fifty years. There is a much better method to education that will allow all to succeed. Eliminate all grade levels. Instead, develop a mastery based advancement system.
  • How to Solve Any Math Word Problems
    The key to Now and Later is the identification of nouns within any story problem. The student does not have to even pronounce the noun or know its meaning, they simply have to understand that it names something. Even the lowest level reading student can find the nouns.
  • Higher Level Thinking Skills, the Curse of Education
    The institution of Higher Level Thinking Skills in education has created an environment in which mastery is lost and mediocrity prevails. Teaching middle school math for 8 years, after military retirement, revealed the sad state of affairs in our schools today.

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