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Decoding the Global History Regents Curve: A Comprehensive Guide
Are you a New York State high school student preparing for the Global History and Geography Regents exam? The prospect of this crucial exam can be daunting, especially understanding the elusive "curve." This comprehensive guide will demystify the Global History Regents curve, exploring what it is, how it works, and most importantly, how you can strategize your studies to maximize your score, regardless of its intricacies. We'll delve into the scoring process, common misconceptions, and offer practical advice to help you achieve your desired grade.
Understanding the Global History Regents Curve: It's Not What You Think
Many students mistakenly believe the Global History Regents exam utilizes a simple "curve" in the traditional sense, where scores are adjusted based on the overall class performance. This is incorrect. The Global History Regents exam doesn't involve a curve that artificially raises or lowers scores. Instead, the scoring process involves a complex rubric and pre-determined standards that translate raw scores into final grades.
How the Global History Regents Exam is Scored
The exam is broken down into several sections: multiple choice, thematic essay, and document-based question (DBQ). Each section is weighted differently, contributing to your final raw score. This raw score is then converted into a final Regents score (ranging from 0 to 100) using a predetermined conversion chart. This chart isn't publicly released, adding to the mystery surrounding the "curve." However, understanding the scoring process itself is crucial.
Multiple Choice Section: Accuracy is Key
The multiple-choice section is a significant portion of your overall score. Each correct answer earns you points, and there is no penalty for incorrect answers. Focus on accurate content knowledge and careful reading of the questions and answer choices.
Thematic Essay: Structure and Content
The thematic essay requires you to analyze a historical theme, demonstrating your understanding of historical context, causation, and consequences. A well-structured essay with clear arguments supported by relevant historical evidence is key to achieving a high score. Practice writing essays under timed conditions to improve your speed and efficiency.
DBQ: Mastering Document Analysis
The DBQ, or document-based question, presents you with several primary source documents related to a specific historical event or theme. You need to analyze these documents, synthesize information, and formulate a well-supported argument. Practicing analyzing primary sources and developing clear thesis statements is critical for success in this section.
Debunking Myths About the Global History Regents Curve
Let's dispel some common myths surrounding the Global History Regents scoring process:
Myth 1: A higher percentage of students scoring poorly means an easier curve. False. The scoring is standardized, not adjusted based on overall performance.
Myth 2: Guessing on the multiple-choice section is a good strategy. While there's no penalty for wrong answers, educated guesses are far more effective than random guesses. Focus on eliminating obviously wrong options.
Myth 3: Memorization alone will guarantee success. While knowing historical facts is crucial, understanding historical context, causation, and the ability to analyze information are equally important.
Strategies for Success: Beyond the "Curve"
Focusing on mastering the content and exam format is far more effective than worrying about a non-existent curve. Here's how to maximize your score:
Comprehensive Study Plan: Create a detailed study plan covering all major historical periods and themes.
Practice Exams: Regularly take practice Regents exams to familiarize yourself with the format and identify areas needing improvement.
Review Past Exams: Analyze past exams to understand common question types and recurring themes.
Seek Help: Don't hesitate to ask your teacher, tutor, or classmates for help if you're struggling with specific concepts.
Effective Time Management: Practice managing your time effectively during the exam to ensure you complete all sections.
Conclusion
The concept of a "Global History Regents curve" often causes unnecessary anxiety. Instead of focusing on an elusive curve, concentrate on mastering the content, developing strong analytical skills, and practicing the exam format. A well-structured study plan, consistent effort, and effective time management will significantly improve your chances of success on the Global History and Geography Regents exam. Remember, your success is directly tied to your preparation, not some mysterious adjustment of scores.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What is the passing score for the Global History Regents exam? There isn't a fixed passing score; the passing score is determined by the New York State Education Department based on the overall performance on the exam.
2. Are there different versions of the Global History Regents exam? Yes, there are multiple versions of the exam administered throughout the year to maintain test security.
3. Where can I find practice Regents exams? Many websites and resources, including your school's website and online educational platforms, offer practice exams and study materials.
4. How much time do I have for each section of the exam? The exact time allocation for each section is specified in the exam instructions, so familiarize yourself with this before the exam.
5. What kind of primary sources are typically included in the DBQ section? DBQs usually incorporate a variety of primary sources, including maps, letters, excerpts from speeches, and images, all relevant to the historical theme being examined.
| global history regents curve: A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic Mark J. White, 2022-10-10 This book tells the story of both the ancient humans who made handaxes and the thoughts and ideas of scholars who have spent their lives trying to understand them. Beginning with the earliest known finds, this volume provides a linear and thematic account of the history of the Old Stone Age, or Palaeolithic period, covering major discoveries, interpretations and debates worldwide; a story that takes us from the embers of the Great Fire of London to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers a comprehensive and unique history of archaeological theory and interpretation, seeking to explain how we know what we know about the deep past, and how ideas about it have changed over time, reflecting both scientific and societal change. At its heart lies the quest for an answer to a most curious and sometimes beautiful tool ever made – the handaxe. While focused on the Earlier Palaeolithic period, the book provides a readable account of how ideas about the prehistoric past generally were formed and altered, showing how the wider discipline came to be dominated by a succession of different theoretical ‘paradigms’, each seeking different answers from the same data set. Serving a dual purpose as a historical narrative and as a reference source, this book will be of interest to all students and researchers interested in deep human prehistory and evolution, archaeological theory and the history of archaeology. |
| global history regents curve: Brief View In Global Studies. Prentice-Hall Staff, 1997 |
| global history regents curve: Ahead of the Curve Shane Crotty, 2003-06 A biography of one of America's most famous and important molecular biologists. |
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| global history regents curve: Utopian Universities Miles Taylor, Jill Pellew, 2020-11-12 In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments. |
| global history regents curve: Global 2000 Revisited Gerald O. Barney, Jane Blewett, Kristen R. Barney, 1993 |
| global history regents curve: North African Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Systems Eulàlia Gili, Mohamed El Hédi Negra, Peter W. Skelton, 2003-11-30 This volume arises from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on 'North African Cretaceous rudist and coral formations and their contributions to carbonate platform development , which was held in Tunisia, on 13-18 May, 2002. It was convened by M. El Hedi Negra (Universite 7 Novembre de Carthage, now Universite de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) and Eulalia Gili (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). The aims of the ARW were: (1) to review and critically assess currently available data on rudist/coral formations in North African Cretaceous carbonate platforms, and their correlations, and to integrate these data with other studies around the Mediterranean; (2) to place the findings in a global context, noting both similarities with other regions of platform development as well as local differences, and (3) exploring possible reasons for these; and to help promote the creation of a vibrant peri-Mediterranean collaborative research community, embracing researchers from the entire region, to carry forward this ambitious research programme. Twenty-two presentations (oral and poster) provided both topical reviews (covering rudist evolution, and ecology, mineralogical changes, applications of strontium isotope, and graphic correlation methods, and platform typology) as well as regional syntheses (Tunisian reservoirs, Moroccan platform history, Tunisian platforms and rudist/coral facies, Algerian platforms, and Egyptian platforms). Fifteen of these presentations are expanded here as papers. The workshop was attended by 24 academic staff, 4 geologists from the oil industry, plus several observers and students. |
| global history regents curve: Testing Regimes, Accountabilities and Education Policy Bob Lingard, Goli Rezai-Rashti, Wayne Martino, 2017-10-02 Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems in particular directions, and having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula. There has also been a complementary global aspect to this with the OECD’s PISA and IEA’s TIMSS and PIRLS, which have had impacts on national education systems and their policy frameworks. While there has been a globalized educational policy discourse that suggests that high stakes standardised testing will drive up standards and enhance the quality of a nation’s human capital and thus their international economic competitiveness, this discourse still manifests itself in specific, vernacular, path dependent ways in different nations. High stakes testing and its effects can also be seen as part of the phenomenon of the ‘datafication’ of the world and ‘policy as numbers’, linked to other reforms of the state, including new public management, network governance, and top-down and test-based modes of accountability. This edited collection provides theoretically and empirically informed analyses of these developments. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy. |
| global history regents curve: A Global History of War Gérard Chaliand, 2014-11-17 While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective. A Global History of War is one of the first works to focus not on the impact of war on civilizations, but rather on how civilizations impact the art and execution of war. World-renowned scholar Gérard Chaliand concentrates on the peoples and cultures who have determined how war is conducted and reveals the lasting historical consequences of combat, offering a unique picture of the major geopolitical and civilizational clashes that have rocked our common history and made us who we are today. Chaliand’s questions provoke a new understanding of the development of armed conflict. How did the foremost non-European empires rise and fall? What critical role did the nomads of the Eurasian steppes and their descendants play? Chaliand illuminates the military cultures and martial traditions of the great Eurasian empires, including Turkey, China, Iran, and Mongolia. Based on fifteen years of research, this book provides a novel military and strategic perspective on the crises and conflicts that have shaped the current world order. |
| global history regents curve: A Natural History of Rape Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer, 2001-02-23 A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape. In this controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations. Regardless of the answer, Thornhill and Palmer note, rape circumvents a central feature of women's reproductive strategy: mate choice. This is a primary reason why rape is devastating to its victims, especially young women. Thornhill and Palmer address, and claim to demolish scientifically, many myths about rape bred by social science theory over the past twenty-five years. The popular contention that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire is, they argue, scientifically inaccurate. Although they argue that rape is biological, Thornhill and Palmer do not view it as inevitable. Their recommendations for rape prevention include teaching young males not to rape, punishing rape more severely, and studying the effectiveness of chemical castration. They also recommend that young women consider the biological causes of rape when making decisions about dress, appearance, and social activities. Rape could cease to exist, they argue, only in a society knowledgeable about its evolutionary causes. The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biology's and social science's explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior. |
| global history regents curve: The Happiness Curve Jonathan Rauch, 2018-06-14 Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump even when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end? Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch answers all these questions. He shows that from our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a well-documented U-shaped trajectory, a happiness curve, declining from the optimism of youth into what's often a long, low trough in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s. This isn't a midlife crisis, though. Rauch reveals that this downturn is instead a natural stage of life – and an essential one. By shifting priorities away from competition and toward compassion, you can equip yourself with new tools of wisdom and gratitude to head positively into your later years. And Rauch can testify to this personally – it was his own slump, despite acclaim as a journalist and commentator that compelled him to investigate the happiness curve. His own story and the stories of many others from all walks of life – from a steelworker and a limo driver to a telecoms executive and a philanthropist – show how the ordeal of midlife malaise can reboot our values and even our brains for a rebirth of gratitude. Full of insights and eye-opening data, and featuring practical ways to endure the dip and avoid its perils and traps, The Happiness Curve doesn't just show you the dark forest of midlife, it helps you find a path through the trees. |
| global history regents curve: This City Belongs to You Heather Vrana, 2017-07-03 Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later persecuted by the government, all while crafting a powerful student nationalism. In no other moment in Guatemalan history has the relationship between the university and the state been so mutable, yet so mutually formative. By showing how the very notion of the middle class in Guatemala emerged from these student movements, this book places an often-marginalized region and period at the center of histories of class, protest, and youth movements and provides an entirely new way to think about the role of universities and student bodies in the formation of liberal democracy throughout Latin America. |
| global history regents curve: The Climate Crisis Adam Aron, 2022-12-31 Why, despite all we know about the causes and harms of global heating, has so little effective action been taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and what we can do to change that? This book explains the mechanisms and impacts of the climate crisis, traces the history and reasons behind the lack of serious effort to combat it, describes some people's ongoing scepticism and how to shift it, and motivates an urgent program of action. It argues that the pathway to stopping dangerous global heating will require a much larger mobilization of advocacy and activism to impel decision makers to abandon fossil fuels, and transition to renewable energy and electrification embedded in a political and social framework guided by justice principles. It is an excellent resource for students and researchers on the climate crisis, the need for a renewable energy transition, and the current blocks to progress. |
| global history regents curve: Student-staff Directory University of Minnesota, 2005 |
| global history regents curve: International Education at Community Colleges Rosalind Latiner Raby, Edward J. Valeau, 2016-07-26 This book brings together distinguished scholars, community college practitioners, and emerging leaders to expand upon existing theories, provide reflection on practice, and demonstrate the dynamic nature of community college internationalization. There is a special challenge for United States community colleges to move from selected international programs that impact a few students to sustainable change that influences the entire college community. A key importance is realization that reform is not based on chance, but on intentional designs that are intended to guide future endeavors. The research, case studies, and experiences of the authors in this book are both inspiring and critical in the quest to encourage an academic shift for long-term change that promotes international literacy as an integral component of the community college and celebrates the needs of the changing local communities. |
| global history regents curve: Championing Science Roger D. Aines, Amy L. Aines, 2019-01-22 Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education. This comprehensive guide provides real-world strategies to help scientists develop the essential communication, influence, and relationship-building skills needed to motivate nonexperts to understand and support their science. Instruction, interviews, and examples demonstrate how inspiring decision makers to act requires scientists to extract the essence of their work, craft clear messages, simplify visuals, bridge paradigm gaps, and tell compelling narratives. The authors bring these principles to life in the accounts of science champions such as Robert Millikan, Vannevar Bush, scientists at Caltech and MIT, and others. With Championing Science, scientists will learn how to use these vital skills to make an impact. |
| global history regents curve: CrossRoads , 1996 |
| global history regents curve: Moments of Impact Jaime Schultz, 2016 In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University, respectively. At a time when the overwhelming majority of their opponents and teammates were white, the three men, all African American, sustained serious injuries on the gridiron due to foul play, either because of their talents, their race, or, most likely, an ugly combination of the two. Moments of Impact tells their stories and examines how the local communities of which they were once a part have forgotten and remembered those assaults over time. Of particular interest are the ways those memories have been expressed in a number of commemorations, including a stadium name, a trophy, and the dedication of a football field. Jaime Schultz focuses on the historical and racial circumstances of the careers of Trice, Simmons, and Bright as well as the processes and politics of cultural memory. Schultz develops the concept of “racialized memory”—a communal form of remembering imbued with racial significance—to suggest that the racial politics of contemporary America have generated a need to redress historical wrongs, congratulate Americans on the ostensible racial progress they have made, and divert attention from the unrelenting persistence of structural and ideological racism. |
| global history regents curve: Forthcoming Books Rose Arny, 1998 |
| global history regents curve: The Practice of Reproducible Research Justin Kitzes, Daniel Turek, Fatma Deniz, 2018 The Practice of Reproducible Research presents concrete examples of how researchers in the data-intensive sciences are working to improve the reproducibility of their research projects. In each of the thirty-one case studies in this volume, the author or team describes the workflow that they used to complete a real-world research project. Authors highlight how they utilized particular tools, ideas, and practices to support reproducibility, emphasizing the very practical how, rather than the why or what, of conducting reproducible research. Part 1 provides an accessible introduction to reproducible research, a basic reproducible research project template, and a synthesis of lessons learned from across the thirty-one case studies. Parts 2 and 3 focus on the case studies themselves. The Practice of Reproducible Research is an invaluable resource for students and researchers who wish to better understand the practice of data-intensive sciences and learn how to make their own research more reproducible. |
| global history regents curve: Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences , 2006 |
| global history regents curve: The State and Revolution V. I. Lenin, 2024-01-30 Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a ‘semi-state’ of soviets, or workers’ councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas. |
| global history regents curve: The World Turned Right Side Up Godfrey Hodgson, 1996 The World Turned Right Side Up is the brilliant chronicle of the ideasd and events that led to an astounding turnabout in American politics--when the citizens of the United States woke up to find that convervatism, once held in contempt, had become the nation's ruling ideology. Godfrey Hodgson, a veteran journalist and historian, traces the patriotic, religious, social and economic strands of conservatism over the past 15 years. |
| global history regents curve: Practical Research Paul D. Leedy, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, 2013-07-30 For undergraduate or graduate courses that include planning, conducting, and evaluating research. A do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself manual designed to help students understand the fundamental structure of research and the methodical process that leads to valid, reliable results. Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Suitable as the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-instruction, this text will show students two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally. |
| global history regents curve: Racist America Joe R. Feagin, 2001-07-12 Racist America is a bold, thoughtful exploration of the ubiquity of race in contemporary life. It develops an antiracist theory rooted not only in the latest empirical data but also in the current reality of racism in the U.S. |
| global history regents curve: College Learning for the New Global Century Association of American Colleges and Universities, National Leadership Council (U.S.), 2007 College Learning for the New Global Century, published through the LEAP (Liberal Education and America's Promise) initiative, spells out the essential aims, learning outcomes, and guiding principles for a 21st century college education. It reports on the promises American society needs to make - and keep - to all who seek a college education and to the society that will depend on graduates' future leadership and capabilities. -- Foreword (p. vii). |
| global history regents curve: Transactions Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, 1983 |
| global history regents curve: Beyond Bioethics Osagie K. Obasogie, Marcy Darnovsky, 2018-03-13 For several decades, the field of bioethics has played a dominant role in shaping the way society thinks about ethical problems related to developments in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphases on, for example, doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and individual autonomy have led the field to not be fully responsive to the challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic enhancement, and DNA forensics. Beyond Bioethics provides a focused overview for students and others grappling with the profound social dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to a new perspective that is grounded in social justice and public interest values. The contributors to this volume seek to define an emerging field of scholarly, policy, and public concern: a new biopolitics.--Provided by publisher. |
| global history regents curve: Green Thoughts, Green Shades Jonathan F.S. Post, 2002-02-01 Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present. |
| global history regents curve: New Challenges for Future Sustainability and Wellbeing Ercan Özen, Simon Grima, Rebecca E. Dalli Gonzi, 2021-05-21 New Challenges for Future Sustainability and Wellbeing is a collection of studies about sustainability and related challenges, such as income, wealth, the environment, education and regional equality that influence the pace of economic development and affects the well-being of people and organisations all over the world. |
| global history regents curve: Governments of the World Chester Neal Tate, 2006 |
| global history regents curve: Golden-Silk Smoke Carol Benedict, 2011-04-10 Tobacco has been pervasive in China almost since its introduction from the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century. One-third of the world's smokers--over 350 million--now live in China, and they account for 25 percent of worldwide smoking-related deaths. This book examines the deep roots of China's contemporary cigarette culture and smoking epidemic and provides one of the first comprehensive histories of Chinese consumption in global and comparative perspective--Provided by publisher. |
| global history regents curve: Postcolonial Representations of Women Rachel Bailey Jones, 2011-06-11 In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education received in classrooms as well as ‘unofficial’ education ingested via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as two-dimensional stereotypes. The text analyzes both current and historical colonial representations of women in a pedagogical context. In doing so, it seeks to recast our conception of what ‘difference’ is, challenging historical, patriarchal gender relations with their stereotypical representations that continue to marginalize minority populations in the first world and billions of women elsewhere. These distorted images, the book argues, can be subverted using the semiology provided by postcolonialism and transnational feminism and the work of contemporary artists who rethink and recontextualize the visual codes of colonialism. These resistive images, created by women who challenge and subvert patriarchal modes of representation, can be used to create educational environments that provide an alternative view of women of non-western origin. |
| global history regents curve: Tales of Impossibility David S. Richeson, 2021-11-02 A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straightedge problems—squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, doubling the cube, and inscribing regular polygons in a circle—have served as ever-present muses for mathematicians for more than two millennia. David Richeson follows the trail of these problems to show that ultimately their proofs—which demonstrated the impossibility of solving them using only a compass and straightedge—depended on and resulted in the growth of mathematics. Richeson investigates how celebrated luminaries, including Euclid, Archimedes, Viète, Descartes, Newton, and Gauss, labored to understand these problems and how many major mathematical discoveries were related to their explorations. Although the problems were based in geometry, their resolutions were not, and had to wait until the nineteenth century, when mathematicians had developed the theory of real and complex numbers, analytic geometry, algebra, and calculus. Pierre Wantzel, a little-known mathematician, and Ferdinand von Lindemann, through his work on pi, finally determined the problems were impossible to solve. Along the way, Richeson provides entertaining anecdotes connected to the problems, such as how the Indiana state legislature passed a bill setting an incorrect value for pi and how Leonardo da Vinci made elegant contributions in his own study of these problems. Taking readers from the classical period to the present, Tales of Impossibility chronicles how four unsolvable problems have captivated mathematical thinking for centuries. |
| global history regents curve: Transforming Academia Linda Green Basch, Roberta Jill Craven, 1999 |
| global history regents curve: The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 Frederick Engels, 2014-02-12 The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000. |
| global history regents curve: Counter-Statement Kenneth Burke, 1968-05 A valuable feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Burke continues his curve of development in an Addendum which surveys the course of his though in subsequent books (up to the publication of his Collected Poems, 1915 - 1967) and work-in-progress. |
| global history regents curve: Euler's Gem David S. Richeson, 2019-07-23 How a simple equation reshaped mathematics Leonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects—from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller’s buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler’s theorem is so simple it can be explained to a child. From ancient Greek geometry to today’s cutting-edge research, Euler’s Gem celebrates the discovery of Euler’s beloved polyhedron formula and its far-reaching impact on topology, the study of shapes. Using wonderful examples and numerous illustrations, David Richeson presents this mathematical idea’s many elegant and unexpected applications, such as showing why there is always some windless spot on earth, how to measure the acreage of a tree farm by counting trees, and how many crayons are needed to color any map. Filled with a who’s who of brilliant mathematicians who questioned, refined, and contributed to a remarkable theorem’s development, Euler’s Gem will fascinate every mathematics enthusiast. This paperback edition contains a new preface by the author. |
| global history regents curve: Rent Control, Myths & Realities Milton Friedman, Friedrich August Hayek, Basil Kalymon, 1981 |
| global history regents curve: Nanoindentation Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps, 2013-03-09 This new edition of Nanoindentation includes a dedicated chapter on thin films, new material on dynamic analysis and creep, accounts of recent research, and three new appendices on nonlinear least squares fitting, frequently asked questions, and specifications for a nanoindentation instrument. Nanoindentation Second Edition is intended for those who are entering the field for the first time and to act as a reference for those already conversant with the technique. |
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Information Booklets pertaining to the scoring of the Regents Examinations administered in June. These booklets address the scoring of Regents Examinations in the following subject areas: English Language Arts; Algebra IGeometry; Algebra II; the Sciences;; Global History and Geography II; and United States History and Government.
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