Terms Can Be Grouped Differently
There is often more than one way to group a polynomial expression for factoring. The commutative law can be applied to rearrange the terms into different factorable groups.
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Conflict with Parents
At the onset of puberty, conflict with parents increases and does not decline until middle or late adolescence. Although the conflict is usually about trivial things, it is part of the process of teens attempting to deve..
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Risk Taking
Research on adolescent risk taking has yielded some interesting findings. First adolescents who do not take risks are less likely to have favorable long-term outcomes than those who occasionally take moderate risks. This..
The Becoming Years: Adolescent Social Development
In the early stages of adolescence, children tend to be egocentric, feeling the eyes of an imaginary audience on them, believing their life is unique and different from other people. These early stirrings of "self" inclu..
The Becoming Years: Aging and Cognitive Changes
Certain physical and cognitive changes are inevitable with aging. Older adults will have trouble remembering names and show a greater tendency to have false memories. Correlational evidence, however, suggests that an act..
The Becoming Years: Development: from Womb to Tomb
Adolescence and older adulthood, two stages of development at near opposite end of life, share a common thread of exploration, discovery, and growth. From womb to tomb-childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood ,..
The Becoming Years: Developmental Tasks of the Elder Years
People who have something that captures their attention and their sense of purpose make richer contributions than people who are self focused. Psychologist Erik Erikson theorized that the developmental task of the elder ..
The Becoming Years: Impending Death
All animals experience fear in response to something that could end their lives, but only humans have the intellectual capacity to realize that death is inevitable. Most people deny the prospect of their own death until ..
The Becoming Years: Mark of an Adult, The
The age at which adulthood begins varies depending on when an individual takes on adult roles such as a full-time job and marriage. Changes in the brain brought on by puberty are largely complete in young adulthood and p..
The Becoming Years: Myths and Realities of the Aging Adult, The
For aging adults, the loss of work due to retirement marks a major event in life's progression. For some, it is like losing a spouse; the meaning in their life is gone. But this image of older age is a far cry from what ..