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  • Linear Eq. – Slope Forms

    This page assumes you have some basic knowledge of linear equations and slope. In the linear equations basics section we discussed the standard form of a linear equation where Ax + By = C. There are other ways that linear equations can be written that can help provide useful information for graphing. They are called…

  • Intro to Linear Equations

    A linear equation is an equation that describes a straight line on a graph. You can remember this by the “line” part of the name linear equation. Standard Form Linear equations have a standard form that looks like this: Ax + By = C Where A, B, and C are coefficients (numbers) while x and…

  • Keloglan and the Magic Seal

    One day, Keloğlan was walking back from the marketplace after selling his crops to the people of the neighbouring village. He had earned three gold coins that day and was pleased with himself because now his mother would be able to buy food and clothing to last through the long winter. Suddenly, Keloğlan came across…

  • His Fathers Kingdom

    Once upon a time, a prince inherited his father’s kingdom. Although it had once been a prosperous nation of fertile lands, his father’s incompetence had led the kingdom into ruin. The young king could not afford to live the life expected of royalty. It was up to him to govern his fading realm. The young…

  • Deer and Jaguar

    Deer walked along by the great river into the forest: ‘Oh, but what a life have I got? No home. Perhaps I will build myself a house. Here is as good a place as any.’ Deer went on. Along came Jaguar by the great river, padding along into the forest. He came to the same place: ‘Oh,…

  • Chips

    Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a small house in a small village in the east of a big country, there lived a widow with lots of children. She was young and quite beautiful, and she lived in a small house with her mother and father and all of her children. The…

  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 

    Each evening Ali Baba went out to gather twigs and branches for his wife so that she had enough firewood to cook the stew for dinner. One day, Ali Baba went further than usual to hunt for fallen branches beneath the trees that grew beside the rocky cliffs near the high hills. Suddenly, he heard…

  • Baba Yaga the Russian Witch

    Once upon a time an old man lived in a hut with his little girl, Natasha. So happy they were!  At tea time, they would play peek-a-boo behind the samovar (a very tall teapot used in Russia).  They would drink tea with honey bread and strawberry jam. Everything was fine! The only sad times were…

  • Exponents

    Skills needed: Multiplication Using exponents is just a short way of saying that you want to multiply something by itself a number of times. Let’s say for example that you want to do the following: 4 x 4 x 4 This could be written with exponents and would look like this: 43 They both equal…

  •  Yuuki and the Tsunami 

    FOR AS LONG as people can remember, the shores of Japan have been swept from time to time by enormous tsunamis. These awful sudden risings of the sea are caused by earthquakes or by underwater volcanic action. The story of the boy Yuuki is the story of such a calamity. Yuuki lived with his family…

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