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English eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓ(w)-, and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary.
In Canada, the terms "middle school" and "junior high school" are both used, depending on which grades the school caters to. [5] Junior high schools tend to include only grades 7, 8, and sometimes 9 (some older schools with the name 'carved in concrete' still use "Junior High" as part of their name, although grade nine is now missing), whereas middle schools are usually grades 6–8 or only ...
Even though the IEA became a legal entity in 1967, its origins date back to 1958 when a group of scholars, educational psychologists, sociologists, and psychometricians met at the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss problems of school and student evaluation.
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
40.8: 95,252: 38.0: New Hampshire poll averages compiled by HuffPost Pollster at ...
After surviving an assassination attempt in the Tucson mass shooting last January, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) resigned from Congress in January 2012. In the June special election, Jesse Kelly (R) — an Iraq War veteran who lost to Giffords in 2010 — was defeated by Ron Barber (D), Giffords' district director who was also wounded in Tucson.
The designation E 8 comes from the Cartan–Killing classification of the complex simple Lie algebras, which fall into four infinite series labeled A n, B n, C n, D n, and five exceptional cases labeled G 2, F 4, E 6, E 7, and E 8. The E 8 algebra is the largest and most complicated of these exceptional cases.
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