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More...Practise simulated contest questions for Math Kangaroo Contest preparation for Grade 1 and Grade 2 students: GO
You can also try the popular mobile app: MathJump, like a Kangaroo! It provides challenging math questions for students of Grades 1-4. MathJump! helps students prepare for the Math Kangaroo contest from level 1 to level 4, with hundreds of high-quality questions simulating the typical Math Kangaroo contest question categories.
Here is a list of the 2015 top 20 US national universities, just released today by US News: More...
Math Kangaroo questions are challenging but have patterns. Our experienced teachers will teach students how to decipher the question patterns and master related Math concepts and Math techniques, so that they can do well in Math Kangaroo contests. More importantly, our Math Kangaroo test prep program will improve the students' overrall problem solving skills of:
Homesweet Learning's Math Kangaroo Test Prep Program takes the following 3 different formats:
You can also try the popular mobile app: MathJump, like a Kangaroo! It provides challenging math questions for students of Grades 1-4. MathJump! helps students prepare for the Math Kangaroo contest from level 1 to level 4, with hundreds of high-quality questions simulating the typical Math Kangaroo contest question categories.
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When should you use who, and when should you use whom?
These days, it is becoming rare to see whom, because most of us use who in almost all cases. In fact, whom can sound rather pretentious and stuffy, For example:
To whom am I speaking?
Whom am I speaking to?
These sound very formal. Many of us would be more inclined to write or say:
Who am I speaking to?
Nonetheless, there are still a few stock phrases that use whom, even in contemporary English. For example:
To whom it may concern
In almost all other cases, it has become acceptable in contemporary English usage to use who.
Besides a diagram, you can also use the Thin Lens Equation and the Magnification Equation to determine characteristics of an image in curved lens (converging and diverging).
The Thin Lens Equation
1 / d0 + 1 / di = 1 / f More...
A Prime number can be divided evenly only by 1 or itself. And it must be a whole number greater than 1.
Prime Factorization is the process of finding all the prime factors of an integer. Here is a simple way. In the first diagram below, the prime factors of integer 891 is 3, 3, 3, 3, and 11. More...
In this section, we study the reflection of light, focusing on how light is reflected in
The law of reflection states that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. Remember that the angles are measured relative to the normal line. More...