This Stanford University encyclopedia entry discusses Confucius (551-479 BCE), who, according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
Includes two maps of the state as well as several topographic maps of cities in Connecticut and one historic map of New Haven in 1920.
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of conservation of energy.
This site is from the Physics Department at Georgia State University. The conservation of energy as a fundamental conservation law is presented and compared to other conservation laws (momentum and angular momentum). Links to further information are provided.
See how this principle translates in to fluids and the Bernoulli equation as well as into electric circuits and the voltage law and finally into heat and thermodynamics through the first law of thermodynamics.
The conservation of momentum is technically explained along with a diagram.
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of conservation of momentum.
This StudyCard stack is a teaching activity that demonstrates that the constant rate of change idea is present in many situations outside the mathematics classroom.
Article provides direct links to Brancusi's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
This resource features text of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
The complete text of the Nevada Constitution. The Nevada constitution of July 4, 1864 forbid slavery and allowed for President Lincoln to proclaim that the State of Nevada was admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.
Read the text of Article II of the Constitution, the four sections of which lay out the powers and duties of the executive branch of the federal government.
The complete text of the U.S. Constitution as adopted by the U.S. Congress on September 17, 1787, with information about changes made.
In this activity, students will investigate the construction of circles that pass through a given number of points. They will also investigate the number of points needed to generate a unique circle in a plane.
Given a circle, students will construct a diameter of the circle. They will use the following theorem: In the same circle, if one chord is a perpendicular bisector of another chord, then the first chord is a diameter.
An online version of "flashcards" for students to use in learning the contracted forms of phrases. Students can see the word or contraction, flip the page to the other side, or discard the flashcard altogether.
What is anger and why does it affect people differently? Here's a brochure from the American Psychological Association to answer some basic questions on anger.
Site provides exercises for graphing on the coordinate plane including distance formula, midpoint formula, graphs of equations, and graphing using a calculator.
The full Middle English text of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" from Troilus & Criseyde: A new edition of "The book of Troilus" (London: Longman, 1984).
Students will learn the meaning of the correlation coefficient, find the regression equation and use it to make predictions.