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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Calculus Iii: Partial Derivatives

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource examines partial derivatives. Topics investigated are limits, higher order partial derivatives, chain rule, and directional derivatives. Class notes, definitions, and examples with detailed solutions are included. The notes...
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Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Direction and Vectors 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are given the level curve of a function and are asked to sketch the vector showing the greatest rate of increase of the function. The practice exercise is available in PDF format.
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Science Direct: Recent Advances on Two Dimensional Bin Packing Problems

For Students 10th - 12th
This paper surveys recent advances obtained for the two-dimensional bin packing problem, with special emphasis on exact algorithms and effective heuristic and metaheuristic approaches.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tropical Forest Foragers

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "tropical-forest foragers," or "pygmies," refers to ethno-linguistically diverse peoples distributed across the forested regions of Central Africa who are particularly short in stature and who traditionally have lived by...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Zoroastrians

For Students 9th - 10th
The ethnic identity of this Iranian minority group is derived from their religion, Zoroastrianism. They constitute only 0.18 percent of the Iranian population. The term "Zoroastrian" is taken from the name of their prophet Zarathushtra...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Somalis

For Students 9th - 10th
The Muslim Somalis of the Horn of Africa speak the Somali language and live in the Somali Democratic Republic (Somalia). There are also substantial numbers of Somalis in neighboring countries: the southern half of Djibouti, the eastern...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Amhara

For Students 9th - 10th
Amhara culture is often identified with Abyssinian culture, which is regarded as the heir to the cultural blending of ancient Semitic and Cushitic (African) patterns. "Ethiopia" is derived from an ancient Greek term meaning "people with...
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Saudi Aramco World: Keyboard Calligraphy

For Students 9th - 10th
In a recent exhibition on Ottoman culture held in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk was an unimpressive-looking little 18th-century book, a printed version of a manuscript produced 150 years earlier. Usually a manuscript is more rare than a...
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: General Ambrose Everett Burnside

For Students 9th - 10th
Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824 - 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. Burnside was a Union Army general in the Civil War and...