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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Factoring Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
The factoring calculator finds the factors and factor pairs of a positive or negative number. Enter an integer number to find its factors.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Pre Algebra Divisibility Tests

For Students 9th - 10th
Known as Guzzinta Tests, here are some quick tricks you can learn to see if a number is divisible, can be divided by, another number.
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Other

Psychology Today: Parenting: Decision Making

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Decision making is one of the most important skills your children need to develop to become healthy and mature adults. This article gives tips on raising good decision-makers and reviews the process of decision-making.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Dominoes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A set of online dominoes shows you how to work out multiplication problems.
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Other

Fascinating Triangular Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
Patterns of numbers don't come along every day, and so when they do, they need to be bragged about! The basic definition of triangular numbers begins this site which also lists many of the properties of these numbers, highlights the...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Integers: Negative Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the world of negative numbers as you look at their relationship to positive numbers, integers, absolute value and more. Test your knowledge using he exercises and games provided.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Hyper War: Britain's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland

For Students 9th - 10th
Ibiblio.org offers a text versions of three speeches given by Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of Britain, responding to Germany's invasion of Poland. Audio can be downloaded.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Principal Empowerment

For Admins Pre-K - 1st
Schools will improve when principals are given the autonomy to make decisions that best solve their school-based problems. Coupled with this autonomy is the accountability to produce significant improvement. The upper level bureaucracy...
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New York Times

New York Times: Nuri Kamal Al Maliki

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Along with providing a quick overview of his role in Iraqi politics, the New York Times provides readers with a number of articles concerning the life and influence of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Shimon Peres

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Shimon Peres, the ninth President of Israel. He served a total of forty-eight years in Israel's Parliament and held many different posts, including twice as Prime Minister. He also won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Benazir Bhutto

For Students 9th - 10th
At age 35, Benazir Bhutto was one of the youngest chiefs of state in the world. More than that, she was the first woman ever to serve as prime minister of an Islamic country, but the road that brought her to power had already led through...
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Pre Algebra Factorizations

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about "factorization" from Cool Math. Several examples and practice problems are provided.
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Curated OER

Stephen Joseph Harper

For Students 3rd - 8th
The life and career of Stephen Harper, one of Canada's youngest prime ministers, is outlined in this informative but concise site.
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Curated OER

John Napier Turner

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief but informative report on the life of John Turner who was one of Canada's shortest serving Prime Ministers.
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PBS

Pbs: Greatest Common Factor

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this video, learn how to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. Then, see how this can be used to solve problems with large numbers. In the accompanying classroom activity, students learn to find prime factors using factor...
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Chamberlain Responds With Appeasement

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from two speeches made by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the British people are provided.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Vector?

For Students 9th - 10th
Physicists, air traffic controllers, and video game creators all have at least one thing in common: vectors. But what exactly are they, and why do they matter? David Huynh explains how vectors are a prime example of the elegance, beauty,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Red Rover Robotics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will start with a brief history of robotics and explain how robots are beneficial to science and society. The lesson then will explore how robots have been used in recent space exploration efforts. The engineering design of...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?

For Students 9th - 10th
In its prime, the Library of Alexandria housed an unprecedented number of scrolls and attracted some of the Greek world's greatest minds. But by the end of the 5th century CE, it had vanished. Elizabeth Cox details the rise and fall of...
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US Department of State

Milestones: 1937 1945: Wartime Conferences, 1941 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of each major conference held by members of the Allies in World War II discussing how the course of the war would be fought and ideas of what would happen when the war ended.
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Mathematical Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The mathematical treasure hunt allows young scholars to follow a trail of clues and mathematical problems around the school site; each clue contains a hint to where the next clue is hidden.
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Mathematical Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The mathematical treasure hunt allows learners to follow a trail of clues and mathematical problems around the school site; each clue contains a hint to where the next clue is hidden.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Barney Ewell

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry features Barney Ewell, an American athlete, one of the world's leading sprinters of the 1940s. Although he was believed to be past his prime when the Olympic Games were resumed after World War II, he won three medals at the...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Physical and Political Map of Africa, 1879

For Students 9th - 10th
Map of pre-colonial Africa, showing the predominately native countries and territories of the African continent in 1879. The counties include the Barbary States of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli and Fezzan, the Egyptian territories of...

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