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HINGES - An Illustration of Gauss-Jordan Reduction
CAS platforms such as Maple or Mathematica, designed to overcome this limitation by illustrating the geometry of each iteration of Gaussian elimination (e.g., Symancyk, undated). I will take another step in this direction. Rather than presenting the iterations in a "discrete"...
Charles A. Dana Center: Mathematical Modeling: UNIT 4�Motion
in Activity 4. If the stunt vehicle is fairly small, have students drop it away from the detector to avoid damage to the equipment. However, be sure they change the sign for a , the coefficient of t2, before using it in their model. Warning: If the stunt vehicl...
 Little Miss
Fill-In An excellent way to promote total comprehension is to present students with a fill-in exercise after each book has been completed. In this activity, a portion of the text is reproduced with specific words deleted. The teacher may delete every eighth word, or delete speci...
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Fill-In An excellent way to promote total comprehension is to present students with a fill-in exercise after each book has been completed. In this activity, a portion of the text is reproduced with specific words deleted. The teacher may delete every eighth word, or delete special nouns or verbs. Students are required to fill in the deletions with the exact word or an appropriate synonym. Sample from Mr. Noisy (delete eighth word): Mr. Noisy was a very, very noisy ___ indeed. For example: If
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Fill-In An excellent way to promote total comprehension is to present students with <span class="highlight">a</span> fill-in exercise after each book has been completed. In this <span class="highlight">activity</span>, <span class="highlight">a</span> portion of the text is reproduced with specific words deleted. The teacher may delete every eighth word, or delete special nouns or verbs. Students are required to fill in the deletions with the exact word or an appropriate synonym. Sample from Mr. <span class="highlight">Noisy</span> (delete eighth word): Mr. <span class="highlight">Noisy</span> was <span class="highlight">a</span> very, very <span class="highlight">noisy</span> ___ indeed. <span class="highlight">For</span> example: If
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Antonyms Students' vocabulary can be expanded by discovering words with opposite relationships within each of the books. <span class="highlight">For</span> example, Little Miss Neat meets her match when Mr. Muddle and Mr. Messy come to visit. Students may search <span class="highlight">for</span> antonyms independently, or teachers may prepare an antonym match <span class="highlight">based</span> on the collection. Antonym Match 1. neat 2. happy 3. brave 4. <span class="highlight">noisy</span> 5. busy 6. small <span class="highlight">A</span>. scared B. messy C. tall D. sad E. quiet F. lazy ANSWERS: 1-B; 2-D; 3-<span class="highlight">A</span>; 4-E; 5-F; 6-C
Beacon Learning Center: Guess What It Is?
? 10. In small groups, students share their descriptive writings. Review with students presenting skills such as volume, voice pitch, and talking too quickly. This is time for compliments and/or suggestions for initial drafts. If peers within their groups guess the object, t...
Liquid Crystal IR Detector
Space Based Astronomy Teacher's Guide, Page 59 Liquid Crystal IR Detector Description: Students simulate the detection of infrared radiation using a liquid crystal sheet. Objective: To experiment with one method of detecting infrared radiation. Materials: Liquid crysta...
Multimedia Environments for Developing Literacy in At-Risk Students
medium for teaching and learning. Description: MOST environments are Macintosh-based, and have three interdependent components: (1) the Peabody Literacy Program, a comprehensive, interactive program which incorporates video and text and which consists of comprehension...
Functions [Lesson Plan]
function families and manilulate the coefficient. Applications of Functions (20 minutes) Applications of functions are introduced. Students are guided to discover how functions can help solve problems. These may be ideal as a group activity. (3 activities) Students explore usin...
Problem-Based Learning in Mathematics. ERIC Digest.
mathematics that enables them to guide students in applying knowledge in a variety of problem situations. Teachers with little mathematical knowledge may contribute to student failure in mathematical PBL environments. Without an in-depth understanding of mathematics, teachers would nei...
On Fire
Individual Lessons Lesson 1 - Heating Up In this lesson, students will discover the havoc that wildfire can cause. After learning about the factors that contribute to the spreading of a wildfire, students will use a probability model to determine the portion of a forest that mi...
Affecting Change in Literacy Practices of Adult Learners: Impact of Two Dimensions of Inst...
assuming positions of leadership that required literate activity in their community. Fingeret (1991) also calls for dialogic practice and notes that curriculum development/teaching depends upon a knowledge of students' cultures. In dialogic/collaborative practice, instructors...
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assuming positions of leadership that required literate activity in their community. Fingeret (1991) also calls for dialogic practice and notes that curriculum development/teaching depends upon a knowledge of students' cultures. In dialogic/collaborative practice, instructors can be educated by their students about the students’ culture and history. Given the variety of cultures, many of them nonmainstream and/or immigrant, from which adult education students come, becoming educated about students
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assuming positions of leadership that required literate <span class="highlight">activity</span> in their community. Fingeret (1991) also calls <span class="highlight">for</span> dialogic practice and notes that curriculum development/teaching depends upon <span class="highlight">a</span> knowledge of students' cultures. In dialogic/collaborative practice, instructors can be educated by their students about the students’ culture and history. Given the variety of cultures, many of them nonmainstream and/or immigrant, from which adult education students come, becoming educated about students
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