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4.125 | Through this post I am going to explain How Linear Regression works? Let us start with what is regression and how it works? Regression is widely used for prediction and forecasting in field of machine learning. Focus of regression is on the relationship between dependent and one or more independent variables. The “depe... | http://www.tatvic.com/blog/linear-regression-using-r/ |
4.25 | You can use the teaching and learning outcomes in each phase to support your unit planning and help you plan for the children's learning across the unit.
The teaching sequences model good practice. You will need to tailor and develop this unit to match the needs of your pupils and the curriculum of your school.
- Phase... | http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110809091832/http:/www.teachingandlearningresources.org.uk/node/2937 |
4 | Factory Method Pattern
An important facet of system design is the manner in which objects are created. One of the most widely used creational patterns is the Factory Method Pattern.
Creational patterns describe object-creation mechanisms that enable greater levels of reuse in evolving systems
Let’s consider that, the c... | http://technical-tutorials.blogspot.com/ |
4 | Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, and Algebra 2 all require you to master new math skills. Do you find solving equations and word problems difficult in Algebra class? Are the exponents, proportions, and variables of Algebra keeping you up at night? Intercepts, functions, and expressions can be confusing to most Algebra students,... | http://www.advancedlearners.com/albuquerque/algebra/tutor/find.aspx |
4 | An introduction to the basics of Unicode, distilled from several earlier posts. In the interests of presenting the big picture, I have painted with a broad brush — large areas are summarized; nits are not picked; hairs are not split; wind resistance is ignored.
Unicode = one character set, plus several encodings
Unicod... | http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/unicode-the-basics/?like=1&_wpnonce=401286028f |
4.1875 | Brazilian and British scientists have been examining the heavy smoke plumes from wildfires in the Amazon, gathering data, to understand how the burning of biomass in South America is affecting the local weather and air quality. This might help close crucial gaps in climate models about how the process changes the Earth... | http://scitechdaily.com/amazon-fire-analysis-might-close-gaps-in-climate-models/ |
4.03125 | |Albania Table of Contents
Political chaos engulfed Albania after the outbreak of World War I. Surrounded in by insurgents Durrės, Prince Wilhelm departed the country in September 1914, just six months after arriving, and subsequently joined the German army and served on the Eastern Front. The Albanian people split alo... | http://countrystudies.us/albania/23.htm |
4.15625 | Not Just Black and White
Not Just Black and White is a science project that teaches kids about color and light. Different colors will appear when you and your kids view spinning black-and-white circles.
What You'll Need:
- White paper
- Black paper
- Black marker
- Knitting needle
- Paper plate
Learn About Not Just Bla... | http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/science-projects-for-kids-spectrum-of-colors1.htm |
4 | An elaborate system of leads spreads across our hearts. These leads – the heart's electrical system – control our pulse and coordinate contraction of the heart chambers. While the structure of the human heart has been known for a long time, the evolutionary origin of our conduction system has nevertheless remained a my... | http://phys.org/news/2012-09-reptile-hearts.html |
4.03125 | The Missouri Indians first came to the attention of Europeans through the account left from the Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette expedition in 1673. On the Marquette map, they are referred to as the "Oumessourit." This is the Illinois name for them, and can be translated as the "people of the dugout canoes." ... | http://mostateparks.com/page/55157/homeland-missouri-indians |
4.09375 | 3.8 Related Rates
Two variables, perhaps x and y, are both functions of a third variable, time, t, and x and y are related by an equation.
Example A fire has started in a dry, open field and spreads in the form of a circle. The radius of the circle increases at a rate of 6 ft/min. Find the rate at which the fire area i... | http://homepages.ius.edu/MEHRINGE/M215/Fall%2007%20Notesr/Section3.8.htm |
4.15625 | Russian, early 20th century
The Tsar, the Priest, and the Kulak. 1918
Lithograph printed in two colors on paper
Purchased with the Elizabeth Halsey Dock, class of 1933, Fund
Photograph by Stephen Petegorsky
The earliest antireligious posters needed to be instantly legible to a wide audience. Often, they paired an image... | http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum2/archived_exhibitions/godlesscommunists/tsar_priest_kulak.htm |
4.375 | Children are best encouraged to engage in an activity when they
see others participating in it. This is why it is important for
educators of young children to model the writing process.
Outlined below are a few ways in which this can be
1. Many teachers like to begin each class with writing a short
morning message. Thi... | http://kinderplans.blogspot.com/2011/02/preschool-kindergarten-writing.html |
4.375 | Eye vision enables us to see clearly the objects in our surroundings at different distances and under numerous conditions of lights.
How Eye sees?
Eye works by changing the curvature of the lens to bring the image to a focus from any light from a single point of a distant object and/or a near object called as eyesight ... | http://healthy-ojas.com/eye/eyesight.html |
4.15625 | Dec. 8, 2010 Thirteen billion years ago our universe was dark. There were neither stars nor galaxies; there was only hydrogen gas left over after the Big Bang. Eventually that mysterious time came to an end as the first stars ignited and their radiation transformed the nearby gas atoms into ions. This phase of the univ... | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208132210.htm |
4.15625 | Planets are in equilibrium with their surroundings: they are neither getting hotter nor colder. All planets absorb incident radiation from the Sun (this heats them up); to maintain equilibrium, they must radiate away the same amount of energy. The temperature of a planet can be approximated by assuming that it is a bla... | http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST101/habzone.html |
4.28125 | Plants In Arches National Park
Photograph by brewbooksFlikr
Desert plants, since they are rooted in place, must cope with extremes in temperature, water availability and solar radiation physiologically rather than behaviorally. In fact, surface temperatures in direct sunlight are commonly 25 to 50 degrees F warmer than... | http://www.travelwest.net/canyonlands-plants |
4.03125 | Thursday, November 18, 2010
By Aaron Dicks
In the photovoltaic process solar cells are used to covert light into electricity. Solar cells are made up of semiconductor materials such as: silicon, gallium, cadmium telluride and copper indium diselenide. One of the most common materials used in solar cells is silicon.
In ... | http://www.solarpowerbuzzmedia.com/2010/11/crystalline-silicon-solar-cells.html |
4.0625 | Fishing is a topic that provides many opportunities for comparing present-day practices with the past. For example, how would a young person today become a fisherman or lobsterman? Perhaps there are local fishermen in the area who could provide information to the class. What skills, knowledge, and abilities would help ... | http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/fisheries/k-2-activities |
4.09375 | and Whole Language Learning
Balanced Approach to Beginning Reading
Association for the Education of Young Children
Children cannot learn to read
without an understanding of phonics. All children must know their ABCs and the
sounds that letters make in order to communicate verbally. The question in
early childhood progr... | http://www.readinguniverse.com/articles.php?id=23 |
4.09375 | Welcome to the study guide for King Lear. In it you will find information about the play and the historical context in which it was written, along with that in which this production is set. In order to prepare your class to see the performance, David Dean has supplied background information on Shakespeare and the time ... | http://nac-cna.ca/en/englishtheatre/studyguide/king-lear |
4.3125 | Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases: Lesson plans and teaching resources
Commas: Introductory Prepositional Phrases
Interactive practice with punctuation of long introductory phrases. Appropriate for elementary students and older.
Finding Prepositional Phrases
Students find the prepositional phrases in the sentences... | http://www.webenglishteacher.com/prepositions.html |
4 | Hosted by The Math Forum
The diagram shows a circle of radius 1, with the boundary of the shaded (gray) portion consisting of three circular arcs of radius 1 whose centers are equally spaced on the ambient circle. Dissect the unshaded (yellow) portion of the circle's interior into pieces that can be reassembled to form... | http://mathforum.org/wagon/fall95/p794.html |
4 | - Explain how the following elements and terms affect the quality
of a picture:
- Light-natural light/ambient, flash
- Exposure-aperture (f-stops), shutter speed, depth of field
- Composition-rule of thirds, leading lines, framing, depth
- Angle of view
- Stopping action
- Explain the basic parts and operation of a fil... | http://usscouts.org/usscouts/mb/old/mb083-06.asp |
4.125 | What is Asperger Syndrome?
Asperger Syndrome or (Asperger's Disorder) is a neurobiological disorder that lies on the Autistic Spectrum and affects more boys than it does girls.
The O.A.S.I.S. organization describes Asperger's as the following:
“Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disord... | http://hope.edu/student/development/disabled/asperger_syndrome.htm |
4.0625 | A part of the vast Central Lowlands of North America, the Osage Plains incorporate western Missouri, southeastern Kansas, central Oklahoma, and north-central Texas. The area is sometimes called the Lower Plains, North Central Plains, and the Rolling Plains. In Oklahoma the Osage Plains is divided into subregions, broad... | http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/O/OS007.html |
4.125 | The definition of cyber-bullying is "when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person." StopCyberbullying.org, an expert organisation dedicated to Internet safety, security and privacy, defines cyber-bullying as: "a situation when a chi... | http://clc2.uniservity.com/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=20222617 |
4.15625 | Archaeologists led by the University of Cincinnati have revealed new details about sustainable water and land management among the ancient Maya, including the discovery of the largest ancient dam in Central America.
Recent excavations, sediment coring and mapping at the pre-Columbian city of Tikal have identified new l... | http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00470.html |
4.375 | Solution to Additional Practice
Unit 1: Analyzing Lines on a Graph
In the graph below, the straight line
S is given by the equation y = c + dx. If the line
shifts from this initial position S0 to a new position of
what must have changed in the equation?
- In this graph, the line has changed
in steepness, which means th... | http://cstl.syr.edu/fipse/graphb/unit6/SolnT2Full.html |
4.40625 | In 152 Ways to Keep Students in School: Effective, Easy-to-Implement Tips for Teachers, author Franklin P. Schargel provides practical tips for teachers that can be read quickly and easily implemented in order to improve student learning.
Involved Students Learn Faster!
Children should be active participants in their e... | http://www.eyeoneducation.com/Blog/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1504/Involved-Students-Learn-Faster |
4.1875 | Halifax was founded by the English in 1748 to counteract the French military presence at Louisbourg. To build Halifax the English cut down forests and infringed on Micmac lands. This brought them into greater conflict with the native people who were friends and allies of the Acadians. Micmac raids that resulted from th... | http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1755/1755-05-founding-halifax.html |
4.34375 | - Learn how to identify the main verb in a sentence. Verbs express what someone or something does. Look for the verb that express the 'action' of the sentence.
- Decide on when the action takes place. Does it take place in the present, the past or the future?
- Once you have discovered the general time, find out the sp... | http://esl.about.com/od/tense-review/ht/How-To-Conjugate-Verbs.htm |
4.28125 | A condition that exists during the winter time in the Antarctic, in which the air moves in a ringing, circular motion, allowing little air to come in or out. This is one of the factors resulting in the low stratospheric temperature during the polar night, which are a prerequisite for the ozone hole. When the vortex dis... | http://www.metaglossary.com/meanings/955499/ |
4.0625 | ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS
Sixth Graders review parts of speech and verb tenses and write detailed reports and compositions. Grammar emphasis is on clauses, phrases and the formulation of good sentences and paragraphs. Oral presentations of reports and research are given with an artistic component. Students practice len... | http://shiningmountainwaldorf.org/our-program/middle-school/main-lesson-and-subject-classes/ |
4.125 | Play is vital for providing opportunities to develop language, thinking, motor skills and social skills. Children participate in different types of play and their skills change and develop over time. Providing children with opportunities to develop these skills helps lay the foundation for strong skills in communicatin... | http://blog.talkingmatters.com.au/developing-play/ |
4.03125 | Here's a very simple GNU Make function: it takes three arguments and makes a
'date' out of them by inserting / between the first and second and second and third arguments:
make_date = $1/$2/$3
The first thing to notice is that make_date is defined just like any other GNU Make macro (you must use = and not := for reason... | http://www.agileconnection.com/article/gnu-make-user-defined-functions |
4 | Electrical elementAn electric circuit, or electrical network, consists of electrical elements or components connected by conductors. Elements include devices (such as an inductor, resistor, capacitor, conductor, line, or cathode ray tube) with terminals at which it may be connected directly with other devices. It can a... | http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/e/electrical-element.html |
4.0625 | Of the over 620 species and subspecies of carnivorous plants currently recognised in the world, New Zealand has but relatively few. Although many of our native carnivores are small in stature they are both beautiful and deadly; masters of their boggy realm.
Carnivorous plants occur on every continent throughout the wor... | http://www.nzcps.co.nz/NZCPSNativeCPs.html |
4.375 | Whether your students' families came to America ten days ago, ten months ago, ten years ago, or much longer than that, they, like most Americans, are either immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Have your students do an oral-history project that explores each one's immigrant background. Develop questions such as:
Wh... | http://www.hmhbooks.com/readers_guides/bunting/america.shtml |
4.3125 | Children, Moms and Dads – or maybe Grans and Granddads – Enjoy!
Would be authors – would you like to see your stories published here?
Writing Short Stories for Children.
- Choose a narrative point of view . You can write your children’s short story like one of the characters (first person), as an individual narrator pr... | http://www.mclkids.org/ |
4.25 | dogs descended from the gray wolf. But dogs are so different from wolves that
it seems difficult to imagine how one species led to another. How an organism
evolves has to do with the selective pressures it is exposed to in its
environment. In this activity, see what happens to two different populations of
wolves as dif... | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/3103_dogs_01.html |
4.3125 | Strides are continuing to be made in the world of quantum computing. The most advanced quantum computer contains about 12 quibits… meaning it can hold 4096 pieces of data simultaneously. So how does quantum computing work? With normal computers, a bit may be represented by a group of electrons. In a quantum computer, i... | http://community.mis.temple.edu/richm3538/2011/11/07/what-is-quantum-computing/ |
4.03125 | Sometimes you can see that certain parts of clouds show iridescent colours. In most cases this iridescence appears in clouds which form rapidly (e.g. altocumulus lenticularis). Especially the rims of these clouds have purple red, blue and green colours. This phenomenon is closely related to the coronae. Here the colour... | http://www.meteoros.de/iris/irise.htm |
4.3125 | Architecture played a very important role for the church in Medieval England. The more splendid the architecture, the more the church believed it was praising God. The church in Medieval England poured vast sums of money into the creation of grandiose architectural projects that peaked in the cathedrals at Canterbury a... | http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_church_architecture.htm |
4 | Logic is the skill of correct thinking and conceptual development. It is the thinking through of similarities, comparisons, and differences in order to induce the correct general conclusions. Studying logic and practicing logical thinking prepares students for the development of wisdom. Unfortunately, logic is all but ... | http://covenantclassicalschool.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=104572 |
4.03125 | As our closest neighbor in space, a time-capsule of planetary evolution and the only world outside of Earth that humans have stepped foot on, the Moon is an obvious and ever-present location for future exploration by humans. The research that can be done on the Moon as well as from it will be invaluable to science. But... | http://phys.org/news/2012-07-moon-toxic.html |
4.09375 | In this math worksheet, your child will get practice with place value by writing each number as a sum of 10s and 1s.
This coloring math worksheet lets your child practice counting sets of animals' legs, which lays a foundation for understanding multiplication.
Help the kids share the food equally! This coloring math wo... | http://www.greatschools.org/articles/?p=6&grades=201&outcomes=209&language=EN |
4 | Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
This global, interconnected body of salt water, called the World Ocean, is divided by the continents and archipelagos into the following five bodies, from the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. Off... | http://all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Ocean |
4.03125 | The monument maintains an Air Quality Station which tracks visibility, particulates, ozone, nitrates, sulfides, dioxins, and rainwater deposition. This data is analyzed and used to determine overall air quality, and factors or events that may be having detrimental effects on the air. This information can help managers ... | http://www.nps.gov/chir/naturescience/airquality.htm |
4.25 | Brain: The Inside Story
Brain: The Inside Story explores how neurons communicate; how the brain processes sensory information, emotions, and behaviors; how the organ evolved in vertebrates; and what makes each human brain unique. This comprehensive guide will help you explore the exhibition with your students.
Use thes... | http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/brain-the-inside-story/brain-promos/for-educators |
4.03125 | Least common multiple
In arithmetic and number theory, the least common multiple (also called the lowest common multiple or smallest common multiple) of two integers a and b, usually denoted by LCM(a, b), is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both a and b. If either a or b is 0, LCM(a, b) is defined to ... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_common_multiple |
4.125 | Learning the Swahili Articles is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Swahili language. But first we need to know what the role of Articles is in the structure of the grammar in Swahili.
Swahili articles are words ... | http://www.mylanguages.org/swahili_articles.php |
4.09375 | Arctic sea ice
In recent years, the area covered by Arctic sea ice, particularly the minimum extent in summer, has rapidly shrunk. This is thought to result from a combination of factors: over the past several decades surface air temperatures in the Arctic have been warming at about twice the global rate, and the ocean... | http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Browse_by_Topic/ClimateChange/theClimate/glaciers |
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