The St. Nicholas Center has a great site talking about the background of many Christmas traditions from around the world,
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Preventing Identity Theft
Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 16:19Read About Jobs
Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 12:09Here are stories from NPR and Marketplace Money that are about jobs:
Digital Disruptor- Read how the Internet has effected one person's life who grew up with the Internet
Newroom Disruption- How has technology effected newsrooms?
Where did the January jobs come from? - What areas of the economy are growing?
Additon, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division: Contemporary's Number Power and Khan's Academy
Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 12:31Place Value 1-pp. 6-10
Basic Addition Facts- p. 15-16
Adding and Carrying- p. 19-22
Adding Larger Numbers -p.19-22
Rounding Whole Numbers- p. 25-26
Subtracting Whole Numbers- p. 37-38
Subtracting and Borrowing/Regrouping- p.39-43
Subtraction from Zeroes- p 45-48
Mental Subtraction- p. 49
Basic Multiplication- p.; 62-64
The Multiplication Table- p. 65
Multiplying by One Digit Numbers- p. 66
Multiplying by Larger Numbers- p. 67-68
Multiplying & Carrying- p. 71-73
Dividing by One-Digit Numbers- p. 93-95
Division with Remainders- p. 96-99
More Long Division with Remainders
Dividing by Two Digit Numbers-p. 100-104
Applying Your Division Skills- p. 111-116
Dividing Whole Numbers and Application 2
Dividing Whole Numbers and Application 3
Dividing Whole Numbers and Application 3
Dividing Whole Numbers and Application 4
Dividing Whole Numbers and Application 5
Dividing Whole Numbers and Application 6
Changing Units of Measuremenrt- p. 130- Length
Adding Different Units of Length
Changing Units of Measuremenrt- p. 130- Pounds to Ounces
Changing Units of Measuremenrt- p. 130- Other Weights
Changing Units of Measuremenrt- p. 130- Quarts, Cups, and Pints
Multiplying Measurements- Performing Arithmetic Operations on Units of Volume
Perimeter and Area- p. 136-138
Volume: Measuring the Space Inside a 3-Dimensional Object- p. 140- 141
Volume: Application problems- p. 140-141
Finding an Average (Mean)- p. 149-150
Fractions: Contemporary's Number Power and Khan's Academy
Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:23Fractions
- Understanding Fractions-Numerator and Denominator of a Fraction- p.11
- Writing Fractions- p. 12
- Proper and Improper Fractions-p.13
- Ordering Fracions- p. 14
- Comparing Fractions 1- p. 14
- Comparing Fractions 2- p. 14
- Fractions in the Lowest Terms (Reducing Fractions)- p. 15
- Changing an Improper Fraction to a Mixed Number- p. 19
- Converting Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions-p. 21
- Adding Fractions with the Same Denominators-pp. 22-24
- Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators- p. 25
- Subtracting Fractions- p. 31
- Subtracting Mixed Numbers- p. 34-36
- Subtracting Mixed Numbers 2- p. 34-36
- Subtracting Fractions Word Problems- p. 37
- Multiplying Fractions- p. 38
- Multiplying Mixed Numbers- p. 43
- Multilplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers- p. 43
- Multiplying Fractions Word Problems-p. 46-47
- Dividing Fractions- p. 47-48
- Dividing with Mixed Numbers- p. 53
- Dividing Mixed Numbers and Fractions- p.53
- Dividing Fractions Word Problems- p. 56-57
- Decimal Place Value- pp. 62-63
- Decimal Place Value
- Changing Decimals to Fractions- p. 67
- Changing Fractions to Decimals- p.68
- Changing Fractions to Decimals Example
- Comparing Decimals- p. 70
- Rounding Decimals- p. 71
- Adding Decimals- p. 73
- Subtracting Decimals- p. 75
- Estimation with Decimals- p. 76
- Decimal Subtraction Word Problems- p.77
- Multiplying Decimals- p. 79
- Multiplying Decimals- p. 80-81
- Multiplying a Fraction by a Power of 10- p. 82
- Dividing Decimals- p. 87
- Dividing Decimals by 10, 100, and 1000- p. 90
- Understanding Percents- p. 98
- Understanding Percents 2
- Changing Decimals to Percents- p. 99
- Percent and Decimal
- Percents, Fractions, and Decimals
- Finding a Percent of a Number- p. 104
- Solving Percent Problems 2
- Solving Percent Problems 3
- Finding What Percent One Number is of Another- p. 114-115
- Finding the Perimeter of Rectangles and Squares- p. 136-137
- Area and Perimeter- p. 138-139
- Circles: Radius, Diameter, Circumference- p. 142-143
- Parts of a Cicle
- Finding the Area of a Circle- p. 144
Food and Nutrition Stories
Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 16:25Step Forward- Choose Book 3 and Chapter 6
KidsHealth.org
- Reading Food Labels
- Staying Healthy section (Choose Fabulous Food)
Marshall Adult Education stories
Beehive
- Healthy Eating to Feel Great
- Seven Tips for Healthy Eating
- Ten Holiday Foods Made Healthy
- How to Portion Food Your Plate
Algebra- Contemporary Number Power and Khan Academy Videos
Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:28Here are the Khan Academy videos that match Contemporary's Number Power- Algebra book:
Signed numbers
- Introduction to Negative numbers -p.10-11
- Adding and Subtracting Negative Numbers- pp. 12-17
- Multiplying and Dividing Negative Numbers- p18-21
Powers and Roots- pp. 24-37
- Understanding Exponents
- Understanding Exponents 2
- Exponent Rules 1
- Exponent Rules 2
- Exponent Rules 3
- Simplifying Expressions with Exponents
- Simplifying Expressions with Exponents 2
- Simplifying Expressions with Exponents 3
- Negative exponent intuition
- Scientific Notation 1
- Scientific Notation Example 2
- Scientific Notation 3
- Square Roots
- Approximating Square Roots
Algebraic Expressions and Formulas- pp. 38-51
- Simplifying Expressions
- Simplifying Expressions
- Evaluating a Formula
- Rearrange a Formula to Isolate a Variable
- Word Problems 1
- Word Problems 2
- Algebraic Word Problems
- Age Word Problems
- Age Word Problems 2
- Age Word Problems 3
- Perimeter and Area Basics
- Circumference of a Circle
- Perimeter of a Polygon
One-Step Equations- pp. 52-67
- Solving One-Step Equations
- Solving One-Step Equations 2
- Solving Equations
- Application problems with one variable
- One-Step Equation Involving Fractions
Multistep Equations- pp. 68-85
Special Equations- p. 86-99
- Introduction to Ratios
- Ratio Problem with Basic Algebra
- More Advanced Ratio Problem
- Understanding Proportions
- Alternate Solution to Ratio Problem
- Basic Ratio Problems
- Advanced Ratio Problems
- Finding an Unknown in a Proportion
- Finding an Unknown in a Proportion 2
- Linear Equeations in Standard Form
- Solving Systems of Equations by Elimination
- Introduction to Quadratic Equations 1
- Quadratic Equatioin 2
Graphing Equations
- Quadrants of the Coordinate Plane
- Graphing Using X-Y Intercepts
- Grahing a line in slope intercept form
- Graphical Slope of a Line
- Slope of a Line 2
- Slope of a Line 3
- Linear Equations in Slope Intercept Form
