Mathematical Puzzles These puzzles (most of them old classics) from various sources can be used with pupils who finish classwork early. Most of the questions were chosen with enthusiastic‚ bright early teenagers in mind. Some of the puzzles are also appropriate for class work - an initial worked example on the board will help a lot. There are a few trick questions. Some questions can be quickly answered if you chance upon the right approach‚ but the ’long’ solution isn’t too arduous. Several of
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parents and students have clashed over the issue of regulating student attire. In 2007‚ cases involving an anti-Bush T-shirt in Vermont‚ an anti-gay T-shirt in San Diego and Tigger socks in Napa‚ California‚ made their way through the courts‚ causing many to wonder whether this debate will ever be resolved. Meanwhile‚ researchers are divided over how much of an impact - if any - dress policies have upon student learning. A 2004 book makes the case that uniforms do not improve school safety or academic
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COSTS OF STEAM Issue The client expects a reduction in steam generation costs and does not care about energy consumption. Learning Objectives Establishing a list of cost items of steam generation Understanding the different methods of specific steam cost calculation Knowing how to calculate the specific steam costs Rating of the relative importance of cost items Appreciation for specific steam generation costs sensitivity with respect to cost items Recognition of negative
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Living by Number Summary MarineCorp was the maritime solution provider for the SURIA group of companies. It had two subsidiaries which are Green Port Sdn Bhd and Sungai Emas Port Sdn Bhd. Hafiz Hasyim is the person who is responsible to report financial performance in the company. He is one of the Boards which is CFO in organizational structure for the three companies. Besides‚ Vessel inspection and vetting was a major business of MarineCorp. MarineCorp also provide consulting services to SURIA
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MARKETING BY THE Numbers One external factor that manufacturers must consider when setting prices is reseller margins. Manufacturers do not have the final say concerning the price to consumers; retailers do. So manufacturers must start with their suggested retail prices and work back‚ subtracting out the markups required by resellers that sell the product to consumers. Once that is considered‚ manufacturers know at what price to sell their products to resellers‚ and they can determine what
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Competition Team T-Shirt expects significant competition within the t-shirt industry. Some of the more prominent incumbents in this space include specialty retailers such as Urban Outfitters‚ mass retailers such as Target and Internet retailers such as Palmer Cash and Busted Tees. Although there is significant competition‚ Team T-Shirt is confident that its products occupy a gap created by the aforementioned competitors. Specifically‚ while all competitors are good at creating designs‚ either
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The Number Devil The Number Devil - A Mathematical Adventure‚ by Hans Magnus Enzensberger‚ begins with a young boy named Robert who suffers from reoccurring nightmares. Whether he’s getting slurped up by a giant fish‚ sliding down an endless slide into a black hole‚ or falling into a raging river‚ his incredibly detailed dreams always seem to have a negative effect on him. Robert’s nightmares either frighten him‚ make him angry‚ or disappoint him. His one wish is to never dream again; however‚
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Real number In mathematics‚ a real number is a value that represents a quantity along a continuum‚ such as 5 (an integer)‚ 3/4 (a rational number that is not an integer)‚ 8.6 (a rational number expressed in decimal representation)‚ and π (3.1415926535...‚ an irrational number). As a subset of the real numbers‚ the integers‚ such as 5‚ express discrete rather than continuous quantities. Complex numbers include real numbers as a special case. Real numbers can be divided into rational numbers‚ such
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Find The nth Term Of The Bell Numbers Abstract A pattern was discovered when elements in a set were rearranged as many ways as possible without repeating. This pattern is a sequence of numbers called Bell Numbers. In combinatorial mathematics‚ which is said to be the mathematics of the finite‚ the nth Bell number is the number of partitions of a set with n members. This find the number of different ways an element or
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RATIONAL NUMBERS In mathematics‚ a rational number is any number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two integers‚ with the denominator q not equal to zero. Since q may be equal to 1‚ every integer is a rational number. The set of all rational numbers is usually denoted by a boldface Q it was thus named in 1895 byPeano after quoziente‚ Italian for "quotient". The decimal expansion of a rational number always either terminates after a finite number of digits or begins to repeat the
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