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Forming a Good Hypothesis 150 150 Deborah

Forming a Good Hypothesis

Overview of the Process Forming a good hypothesis is essential to the success of any science experiment.  In order for a hypothesis to work well, it should be clear, testable, and express a relationship between something changed (the independent variable) with something that can be measured (the dependent variable).  Even though the word guess is…

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Choosing an Essay Topic 150 150 Deborah

Choosing an Essay Topic

  Choosing a Topic Overview Before students begin to write essays, they must first choose their topics.  Sometimes that is easy, because the topic is already assigned, such as “Who Am I?” or the dreaded “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.”  Then, the challenge is simply to make it interesting enough to stand out from…

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How to Use the Quadratic Formula 150 150 Deborah

How to Use the Quadratic Formula

 Overview of the Quadratic Formula   The Quadratic Formula is a special math expression that can be used to help students solve math equations that take a distinct form: ax2 + bx + c = 0 Quick Factoring to Solve the Problem There are 2 things to remember.  First, a, b, and c are numbers…

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Subject-Verb Agreement 150 150 Deborah

Subject-Verb Agreement

Overview of Subject-Verb Agreement Among the many things writers need to watch carefully is for the subject (the actor) to agree with the verb (the action).  In English, this is usually broken down into two categories, the singular subject with a singular verb, and the plural subject with a plural verb.  The first step is…

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Fractions to Decimals and Decimals to Fractions 150 150 Deborah

Fractions to Decimals and Decimals to Fractions

Fractions can be changed to decimals and decimals to fractions in a few simple steps. The rule is that both fractions and decimals are different ways to express the same relationship between numbers, a ratio, using division and multiplication. All fractions can be written as a/b, where the two numbers have a relationship with one…

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Cognitive Studies on Mirror Neurons 150 150 Suzanne

Cognitive Studies on Mirror Neurons

One of the interesting things about cognitive studies, or studies of how the brain works, is that oftentimes a piece of research into an area like medical research can also yield useful information for education or psychology. And so is the case with mirror neurons, a function of the brain, which has implications in all…

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What is a Homonym…Well a Pair of Pears! 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

What is a Homonym…Well a Pair of Pears!

Homonyms are words that sound alike, but they do not have the same meaning. Unfortunately, they look just enough alike to get past the unwary writer. In addition, those pesky words may also escape the spell-check feature of the computer’s word processing program. They are meaningful words, just not the word the writer wants. However,…

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Diffusion, Osmosis and Osmotic Pressure 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Diffusion, Osmosis and Osmotic Pressure

Diffusion is the net movement of molecules because of a difference in the chemical potential or concentration between two regions. Molecules move faster when the difference/gradient is larger. Molecules tend to move to the region where their chemical potential or concentration is lower.   Osmosis is the diffusion/movement of water through a cell membrane. Since…

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Distance Between Two Points 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Distance Between Two Points

People usually forget a formula to find a distance between two points. The thing is that, you don’t need to memorize the formula if you know where the formula comes from. The key essence to find the distance between two point is Pythagorean Theorem. If you have a right triangle, the square of hypotenuse is…

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Naming Covalent Compounds 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Naming Covalent Compounds

When naming covalent compounds, prefixes must be used to identify the number of atoms. The prefixes are as follows. 1: Mono- 2: Di- 3: Tri- 4: Tetra- 5: Penta- 6: Hexa- 7: Hepta- 8: Octa- 9: Nona- 10: Deca- To begin naming, identify the number of atoms of the first element in the compound. Find…

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