[DENVER] Within Sanders speech he addressed key issues that are fundamental to his policies such as health care, taxes and wealth disparity. Sanders declared to the Coloradan crowd that he is going to be the president to make a change, and how this change was going to start with the working people.
“The only way that change ever takes place in this country is from the bottom on up not the top down,” said Sanders.
Of all things people could be thinking about, math isn’t often one of them. If anything, math is a subject often pushed by the wayside once it’s no longer an academic requirement. It becomes a dead and irrelevant skill to a great deal of people at a certain point.
Julie Sarama, however, an acclaimed mathematics professor, researcher and program developer, claims math is something that matters far more that we think it does.
It’s a critical time in the political year, and this holds true especially for Colorado which has its primary in less than three weeks on Mar. 3. This past Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came to the convention center to speak to over 11,000 Coloradans.
DENVER – Senator Bernie Sanders, a democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election, reeled in over 11 thousand people at the Colorado Convention Center with his fiery and enthusiastic speech on Sunday, February 16.
On Tuesday afternoon, a group of eager students and faculty gathered to hear from Julie Sarama, an expert in early childhood education and mathematics, in regards to her research on the importance of math to children’s learning development.
Math has never been a strength within the U.S. but it is vital to building knowledge throughout one’s life. According to Sarama, the number and arithmetic knowledge at age seven predicts socioeconomic status at age 42. Preschool math predicts math at grade 15. Yet, ranking below average internationally has become a trend that many educators are unhappy to see become the norm.
Roughly 11,000 people attended the campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Denver Convention Center on the afternoon of Sunday, February 16th. Speakers included Colorado state representative Emily Sirota, Dr. Radhika Nath, and former Colorado state rep. Joe Salazar.
“We are at a moment where we can make a change at a national level” said Sirota.
Bernie Sanders slammed current President Donald Trump and excited the crowd on his campaign policies on Sunday during his rally downtown Denver. Approximately 11 thousand people attended the rally, six thousand more than originally expected.
“Don’t tell anybody, but I think we’re gonna win here in Colorado!” Sanders said to the buzzing crowd at the Denver Convention Center.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders walked on to the Colorado Convention Center stage like a political rockstar. More than 11,000 supporters packed into Exhibition Hall C/D of the Colorado Convention Center on Feb. 16 to see him. The Bernie 2020 signs were being waved back and forth like lighters at a concert, and the smell of marijuana filled the air.
Sofar Sounds enables artists and audience members from across the country to come together and connect in an intimate concert setting. On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Sofar Sounds Denver achieved just that.
According to the Sofar Sounds website, “a Sofar gig is an intimate show held in a unique venue, like someone’s living room or an antique shop. It typically features three artists, playing four songs each. Every lineup is specially curated to give our audiences a diverse show.”
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