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Try to draw some fireworks pictures with your graphing calculator. We've inverted parabolas and experimented with moving them left and right, making them fatter, deciding on their maximum Y value and changing our calculator's viewing window. When you figure out better pictures, please let us know and we'll add your ideas (and give you credit) to this post.

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Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.

You can't believe everything you read on the Internet. How do you evaluate the reliability of online information? Check out the conference archives from this National Air and Space Museum interactive online conference developed especially for teachers and secondary students.

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Why Page 99, Not Page 1? Because it's arbitrary. It's rarely as worked on as the elements we usually judge a book by. Like the synopsis, the first few pages, or (you know it's true) the cover. Why Not More Than 1 Page? Because it's supposed to be a snapshot.

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The World Bank announces new Open Access Policy and Open Knowledge Repository The World Bank has announced a new Open Access Policy! Effective July 1, 2012, the Open Access Policy requires that all research outputs and knowledge products published by the Bank be licensed Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a default.