In elementary school, students learn the four basic operations of math. In high school, however, students are taught in a way that allows them to forget these operations. In most math classes (beside parts of Honors Pre-Calculus and Advanced Placement Calculus), students are allowed to use calculators.
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By Ross Shulman
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1/28/11
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The Bellmore-Merrick Bulldogs recently played the Long Island Rough Riders sled hockey team at the Town of Oyster Bay Ice Hockey Rink in Bethpage.
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By David Weingrad
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1/27/11
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A fast-moving, overnight storm dumped another 10 to 12 inches of snow on Bellmore-Merrick, on top of the half-foot already on the ground, shutting down schools throughout the area and sending snowplows onto local streets yet again.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/27/11
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A fast-moving storm that dumped snow at a rate of two inches per hour swept across the South Shore last night. By the time Nassau County residents were waking up on Thursday morning, more than a foot of new snow lay on the ground. As a result, school in all five Bellmore-Merrick area school districts was closed on Thursday, Jan. 27.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/27/11
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Owing to the inclement weather, all after-school activities in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District have been cancelled for Wednesday, Jan. 26.
Also, the health education video …
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1/26/11
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They might not know it, but members of the Jericho boys’ swim team have targets on their backs. The Bellmore-Merrick Sharks tied Jericho last season, and fell to the squad by two points in a meet this year. The Sharks now say they’re hoping for a different outcome the next time the two teams meet, at the county championships in February. They want to win.
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By Deirdre Krasula
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1/26/11
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The Kennedy High School student government granted its December C.A.R.M.A. (Cougars As Role Model Americans) Award to the members of the Future Business Leaders of America Club.
For the past few years, John F. Kennedy’s Future …
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1/24/11
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“There’s no describing her. She was just beautiful.” That’s how childhood friend Nicholas McCormick summed up Erin Clare Malloy-McArdle, 18.
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Deirdre Krasula
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1/18/11
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Calhoun High School senior Jenny Wu is on quite the roll. In the fall, she was named a semifinalist in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition. Then, in December, she learned that she had been accepted to her “dream school” –– Yale University. This past week, she received word that she was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/17/11
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Kennedy High School senior Josh Cohen spent the summer of 2010 peering into a high-powered microscope at SUNY Stony Brook to study aerosols –– solids and liquids suspended inside gas molecules that were so small they were imperceptible to the human eye.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/17/11
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