Algebra is often the first time students are introduced to some of the most important and useful ideas in the field of mathematics, such as the concept of a "variable" or the generalization of patterns in generated data (Star & Rittle-Johnson 2009).
Example minute-paper prompts might include: "What's the most useful concept or idea you learned in class today?," or "What was the muddiest point in today's class session that was most confusing for you?," or " Push yourself to write down at least two questions you have about the scientific evidence we explored in class today".
In Free Ranging, I will seek out the most provocative and most useful among these new ideas.
Morales has some potentially useful ideas, most notably land reform, which was instrumental in the development of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — countries where tenant farms owned by absentee landlords were gradually replaced by independent farms.
For now, this is one of the most scalable and immediately useful ideas for the custom scent machine, but Edwards has big plans, including a custom library of smells ("the iTunes of aroma"), scented fashions, and a new generation of "virtual reality experiences that are so immersive that the absence of scent feels wrong". .
For the reader's work such implications may be most useful when they represent new ideas and envision new directions for the future research.
I find them most useful for getting a basic idea of the spread of prices out there.
Apatow's creative sensibility — he makes charming and bittersweet movies about hopeful people who are doing the best they can but still floundering, sometimes in terrifically funny ways — is consonant with the band's music, which is based on a similar idea: the most useful art is the most honest art.
So bring your most creative, wacky or, dare I say, useful ideas for a hack, find some mates and get down to it.
