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  2. Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity - Wikipedia

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    Al-Khalili expands on the development of the electric battery following Volta's discovery that simultaneously licking a copper coin and a silver spoon would generate a tingle of electricity. [3] The programme finishes with the first breakthrough in finding a commercial use for electricity: [ 6 ] Humphry Davy demonstrating the first carbon-arc ...

  3. Quiz bowl - Wikipedia

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    Other formats include a written worksheet round, where teams work together for 2–5 minutes to agree on their written answers. [20] [21] [22] Match length is determined by either a game clock or the number of questions in a packet. [3] [17] In most formats, a game ends once the moderator has finished reading every question in a packet, usually ...

  4. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    According to Mikhail B. Sevryuk, in the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, "The number of papers and books included in the Mathematical Reviews (MR) database since 1940 (the first year of operation of MR) is now more than 1.9 million, and more than 75 thousand items are added to the database each year. The ...

  5. ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers for NYT's Tricky ... - AOL

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    Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #206 on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. ... January 3. 1. Description of what a kite does in the air 2. Related to the work of secret ...

  6. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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    The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).

  7. Discovery learning - Wikipedia

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    The label of discovery learning can cover a variety of instructional techniques. According to a meta-analytic review conducted by Alfieri, Brooks, Aldrich, and Tenenbaum (2011), [3] a discovery learning task can range from implicit pattern detection, to the elicitation of explanations and working through manuals to conducting simulations ...

  8. Number theory - Wikipedia

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    Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions.German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory is the queen of mathematics."

  9. Answers (periodical) - Wikipedia

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    Answers was a British weekly [1] paper founded in 1888 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe). Originally titled Answers to Correspondents , before being shortened soon after, it initially consisted largely of answers to reader-submitted questions, [ 1 ] along with articles on miscellaneous topics, jokes, and serialized literature.