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  2. Building block - Wikipedia

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    Building block or building blocks may refer to: Toy blocks; Building blocks (toy) Concrete masonry unit; Building block (chemistry) Components that are part of a larger system; Building block model, a form of public utility regulation that is common in Australia

  3. Toy block - Wikipedia

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    KEVA Planks is a wooden block construction toy. Froebel gifts are a range of educational materials first used in the original Kindergarten. Montessori sensorial materials are a range of educational materials including wooden blocks. Pattern blocks and Cuisenaire rods are sets of small blocks used in mathematics education and also in block play.

  4. Concrete block - Wikipedia

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    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  5. Building block model - Wikipedia

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    The building block model is a form of public utility regulation that is common in Australia. Variants of the building block model are currently used in Australia in the regulation of electricity transmission [1] and distribution, [2] gas transmission and distribution, [3] railways, [4] postal services, [5] urban water and sewerage services, [6] irrigation infrastructure, [7] and port access. [8]

  6. Live Search Books - Wikipedia

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    Live Search Books was a search service for books launched in December 2006, part of Microsoft's Live Search range of services. Microsoft was working with a number of libraries, including the British Library , to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books, available across the web.

  7. Base ten blocks - Wikipedia

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    Wooden Dienes blocks in units of 1, 10, 100 and 1000 Plastic Dienes blocks in use. Base ten blocks, also known as Dienes blocks after popularizer Zoltán Dienes (Hungarian: [ˈdijɛnɛʃ]), are a mathematical manipulative used by students to practice counting and elementary arithmetic and develop number sense in the context of the decimal place-value system as a more concrete and direct ...

  8. How Buildings Learn - Wikipedia

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    The book inspired a 6-part TV series by the BBC, produced by James Runcie, [2] executive producer Roly Keating, [3] which was screened in July 1997. [4] Pier 21, Canada's National Museum of Immigration, exemplifies a building which learns. It is a "low road" building, by Brand's definition.

  9. Block-stacking problem - Wikipedia

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    The first nine blocks in the solution to the single-wide block-stacking problem with the overhangs indicated. In statics, the block-stacking problem (sometimes known as The Leaning Tower of Lire (Johnson 1955), also the book-stacking problem, or a number of other similar terms) is a puzzle concerning the stacking of blocks at the edge of a table.