Research for Educational Reform 25 Area and Perimeter: "Which is Which and How Do We Know?" Helene Sherman Tammy Randolph University of Missouri - St. Louis Fourth grade students participated in three hands-on lessons designed to foster conceptual understanding of area and perimeter‚ to able to measure them in units and to be able to distinguish them from each other within the same figure. Students worked with a university faculty member and classroom teacher to construct shapes on geoboards
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December 2010 Brain Cancer in Children Brain Cancer is a common disease amongst children today. There is a lot of information concerning brain cancer‚ available to anyone who wishes to learn more of the disease. There are different types of brain tumors. As a matter of fact‚ there are over 100 types of brain tumors! Cancers of the brain are the result of abnormal growth of cells in the brain. They also can arise from organs that contain cancer cells which have spread to the brain by the bloodstream
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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES ART If you are the art area parent‚ it is very important for you to be on time. An important part of our school day is greeting each child at the door. If the art area parent is late‚ often the teacher must be in that area and cannot be at the door to greet the children. Also‚ many children run in and immediately want to do art. Children enjoy the process-- the doing-- experimenting with the art activity. The end product is not the important part of the activity.
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Pink Brain‚ Blue Brain In the article “Pink Brain‚ Blue Brain”‚ scientist conducted a case study where adults bought in their children that were aged around 11 months old. The purpose of the study was to explore the differences between boys and girls. During the study‚ it was determined that our brains are actually a work in progress‚ meaning that they change based on the experience that we have encountered; mostly starting at the early childhood. It was once thought of that boys were mostly physically
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Area 51 Area 51 is a nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center‚ on the southern shore of Groom Lake‚ is a large secretive military airfield. The base’s primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. Its secretive nature and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research‚ together with reports of
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A Meta Analysis: Nicotine’s effects on the Neurological Disorders of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder‚ Attention Hyperactive Activity Disorder‚ Schizophrenia Abstract Nicotine has been shown to affect the disorders of OCD‚ ADHD and schizophrenia. A study has not been conducted to determine if previously collected data is significant enough to have nicotine used as a treatment for these disorders. Research was conducted through accessible literature to collect data of tests performed on patients
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Introduction The patient M. is a 26 year old married female who was brought to the ER by her husband after increased anxiety and depression worsened after a “spiritual attack” that lasted for over four days. While in the ER the patient admitted to hearing multiple distant male and female voices all around her head and outside of her head. She states not being able to make out the message but interprets them to be negative in nature. She told the ER Doc she felt people were trying to
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Something that surprised me the most in this radio interview about the teenage brain was how adolescents have a higher risk of substance addiction compared to adults (Jensen & Gross‚ 2015). Substances are more toxic and permanent on teenage brains than adult brains (Jensen & Gross‚ 2015). Originally‚ I thought that adults would get addicted faster because they often resort to caffeine to wake up‚ cigarettes to manage hassles‚ and other medications to relieve depression and stress (Berk‚ 2009). On
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Split-Brain Patients: The independent functioning of the left and right hemisphere when no longer connected by the corpus callosum. The human brain is a dynamic and elastic processing unit that manages the great extent of human life. This entails both conscious and unconscious functioning of each human system. For example‚ the brain controls emotions through behaviors‚ physiological responses (both autonomic and hormonal)‚ and feelings in response to stimuli from the environment (Carlson
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BE PROPERLY STAPLED. 1. Are the two rectangular prisms similar? If so‚ give the similarity ratio. 2. The lateral areas of two similar paint cans are 1019 cm2 and 425 cm2. The volume of the small can is 1157 cm3. Find the volume of the large can. 3. The volumes of two similar solids are 128 m3 and 250 m3.The surface area of the larger solid is 250 m2. What is the surface area of the smaller solid? 4. Triangular Prism X and triangular Prism Y are similar. The ratio of corresponding dimensions
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