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From Larry Ferlazzo's tips blog. This is excellent! What are the events of the day that shaped the speech, given which words were uttered most often in it? How did his term match the tone/goals of his speech? Great potential!
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.
Crappy graphs is a quick graph maker for CONCEPTS (not fancy excel type graphs with numbers). This is great for making a fast graphs that demonstrate trends, projections, relationships...
The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.
This site explains how to round whole numbers to the nearest hundred thousand. Gives practice and games to practice this skill which are fun and helpful on the subject.
Gives a precise definition of scientific notation; included is how to determine the order of magnitude of a number with respect to scientific notation.
The Power of a Power law is demonstrated by Algebrahelp.com with several examples using numbers and variables. An online worksheet is available for extra practice.
The site explains what scientific notation is, how to convert numbers into scientific and decimal notation, and gives some example problems that are worked through step by step.