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Cool Math 4 Kids Times Tables Help - How Multiplying Works (times tables) Here's another one: This means that you have three groups of 5! Put the three groupstogether... How many pentagons do you have? Count them... So, our answer is: Let's switch the numbers around and do it the different way! This means that you have five groups of 3! Put the five groupstogether... Count them... 100 Free Foreign Language Classes Online March 1st, 2010 If you have always wanted to learn a language but were too put off by the high cost associated with most classes, then take a look at all these great opportunities to learn a foreign language online, at no cost to you. With so many learning opportunities online, it is a shame not to take advantage of all that you can, so be sure to spend some time with these classes. Whether you want to learn one of the major world languages or want something a little less popular, there are sure to be lessons here to help you start to speak whatever language you are interested in learning. French If you want to learn French, no matter your experience level, then check out these free classes. BBC Languages French. Spanish From the basics to more advanced college courses in Spanish, see what is available in this listing. Learn Spanish. German Learn German from these free classes. BBC Languages German. Italian Italian Language Course. Portuguese BBC Languages Portuguese. Japanese Chinese Chinese I.

Dr Mike's Math Games for Kids Multiplication Worksheets We have multiplication sheets for timed tests or extra practice, as well as flashcards and games. Includes Multiplication Flashcards, Multiplication Bingo, Multiplication Tables, Multiplication I Have - Who has, and lots more! To see the Common Core Standards associated with each multiplication worksheet, select the apple core logo ( ) below the worksheet's description. Games Multiplication Game: I Have / Who HasFree A super-fun chain reaction game that teaches times tables! Multiplication Board Game: To the Moon Member Printable multiplication board game with a space theme. Multiplication Game: Memory Match (up to 9s)Free This fun memory card game will help students learn their multiplication facts up to 9 x 9. Multiplication Game: Memory Match (up to 12s) Member This version of Multiplication memory match includes 10s, 11s, and 12s. Multiplication Roll 'Em Member Play this multiplication dice game to make your math lesson more fun! Multiplication Bingo Member Flashcards Fact Family Flashcards Member

How to Read a Book 1. Open book. 2. 3. 4. Reading a book seems like a pretty straightforward task, doesn’t it? Why Do We Need Instructions on How to Read a Book? “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” In 1940, Mortimer Adler wrote the first edition of what is now considered a classic of education, How to Read a Book. He states that there are four types of reading: Elementary - This is just what it sounds like. This post will cover inspectional and analytical reading, and we’ll focus mostly on analytical. Analytical reading is where most readers fall short. How come people can’t read at a higher level? That’s our task today with this post. Inspectional Reading As mentioned above, there are certainly times when inspectional reading is appropriate. You can often get a pretty good feel for a book with inspectional reading by following the steps below. Read the title and look at the front and back covers of the book. Analytical Reading Why Read Analytically?

Math Games Help To Motivate Students And Make Learning Fun. Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Maths, Key Stage 2 Caterpillar OrderingTablet friendly A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard and tablet friendly. Varying levels of difficulty make it suitable for use throughout the primary age range. OrderingFlash You'll love this ordering game! Compare Numbers on a Number LineFlash Compare numbers on two different number lines and decide which is bigger. Comparing NumbersFlash A teaching tool which is good for demonstrating greater than and less than with 2 and 3 digit numbers and rounding to 10 and 100. CountersquareFlash A hundred square with movable counters and lots of different ideas on how you can use this as a teaching aid. Higher and LowerFlash Lots of examples of ordering numbers from simple ordering numbers to 10 to fractions, decimals or negative and positive numbers. Thinking of a NumberFlash Children need to guess a number below 100 from clues on the clouds. Chinese Dragon GameTablet friendly SequencesFlash EstimateFlash Number LineFlash

A Brief Guide to 3rd, 4th, and 5th Dimensional Time-Space Perception As a student of psychology in my youth, one of the things that fascinated me most was how in other “hard science” disciplines you could come up with incredibly freaky theories about shit like dark matter and quantum physics, then actually talk about them publicly without being laughed at. I suppose this is because of math, but if you break any of the aforementioned theories down too far, you’re basically dealing with the idea that humans can barely perceive the vast majority of what’s going on in the universe. Yet, say the same thing in regards to consciousness and it’s simply not tolerated. Goes against everything we believe in. What I find most hilarious about say, people getting super excited about things like string theory, is it doesn’t stand up to even the most basic of exploratory questioning. What about fucking insects? 3rd Dimensional Time-Space Perception In Gnostic terms, this would be referred to as the son (or daughter). 4th Dimensional Time-Space Perception

Math For Morons Like Us As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation

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Study: People Far Away From You Not Actually Smaller PRINCETON, NJ—According to a groundbreaking new study published Thursday in The Journal Of Natural And Applied Sciences, people who are far away from you are actually not, as once thought, physically smaller than you. The five-year study, conducted by researchers at Princeton University, has shattered traditionally accepted theories that people standing some distance away from you are very small, and people close-by are very big. “The data was irrefutable in demonstrating that when someone standing directly in front of you begins walking away, their body does not, as previously assumed, gradually shrink before eventually disappearing entirely,” said Dr. David Pinard, lead author of the study. “Rather, our findings indicate that they maintain their original size regardless of how tiny they may appear.” This graphical representation explains the research team’s central hypothesis. “Indeed, people who are far away may, in actuality, be larger than you are,” Pinard added.

Hasse diagram Hasse diagrams are named after Helmut Hasse (1898–1979); according to Birkhoff (1948), they are so-called because of the effective use Hasse made of them. However, Hasse was not the first to use these diagrams; they appear, e.g., in Vogt (1895). Although Hasse diagrams were originally devised as a technique for making drawings of partially ordered sets by hand, they have more recently been created automatically using graph drawing techniques.[1] The phrase "Hasse diagram" may also refer to the transitive reduction as an abstract directed acyclic graph, independently of any drawing of that graph, but this usage is eschewed here. A "good" Hasse diagram[edit] Although Hasse diagrams are simple as well as intuitive tools for dealing with finite posets, it turns out to be rather difficult to draw "good" diagrams. The following example demonstrates the issue. . Upward planarity[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Related media at Wikimedia Commons:

New Year’s Resolution: Learn to Code A year ago I didn't know how to code. I had a journalism degree and had made some graphics, but I would have been hard-pressed to explain the difference between Ruby and JavaScript, and I was pretty happy when I got the YouTube video to embed correctly. I considered myself pretty technical but generally avoided the command line. When I did start learning, I was amazed by how much was out there: introductory videos, explanatory blog posts, tips and tricks and step-by-step guides. To get coding quickly, nothing beats having a project – and a deadline. As the year went on I came across a number of resources that were also very helpful in digging deeper: tutorial videos that finally cleared up some long-standing befuddlement, random snippets of code that made the damn thing work after three hours of head-banging, some really good explanations I wish I had read weeks earlier, etc. Ruby and Rails RailsCasts Screencasts for learning Rails.

Benford's law The distribution of first digits, according to Benford's law. Each bar represents a digit, and the height of the bar is the percentage of numbers that start with that digit. Frequency of first significant digit of physical constants plotted against Benford's law Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, is a phenomenological law about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many (but not all) real-life sets of numerical data. It has been shown that this result applies to a wide variety of data sets, including electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, physical and mathematical constants,[3] and processes described by power laws (which are very common in nature). The graph here shows Benford's law for base 10. It is named after physicist Frank Benford, who stated it in 1938,[4] although it had been previously stated by Simon Newcomb in 1881.[5] Mathematical statement[edit] Example[edit] History[edit] Explanations[edit]

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