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  2. Quintic function - Wikipedia

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    In other words, a quintic function is defined by a polynomial of degree five. Because they have an odd degree, normal quintic functions appear similar to normal cubic functions when graphed, except they may possess one additional local maximum and one additional local minimum.

  3. Education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational standards, often mandate standardized tests for K–12 public school systems and supervise, usually through a board of regents, state colleges, and universities.

  4. K–12 education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A fifth-grade class in Paramus, New Jersey, c. 1957. Typically, the curriculum in public elementary education is determined by individual school districts or county school system. The school district selects curriculum guides and textbooks that reflect a state's learning standards and benchmarks for a given grade level.

  5. William Wilson Morgan - Wikipedia

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    William Wilson Morgan (January 3, 1906 – June 21, 1994) was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. [1] The principal theme in Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our galaxy. In addition to his scientific achievements he served as professor and astronomy ...

  6. Are You Smarter than a Canadian 5th Grader? - Wikipedia

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    The Canadian version of the game was played essentially in the same way as its American counterpart: a contestant was asked a series of eleven questions taken from elementary school textbooks; with each correct answer, the contestant accrued more money; the contestant has 5th grade "classmates" to help them; and in the event of the contestant ...

  7. Fifth grade - Wikipedia

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    Fifth grade. Fifth grade (also 5th Grade or Grade 5) is the fifth or sixth year of formal or compulsory education. In the United States, This is mostly the last grade of primary school, but for some states, it could be the first year of middle school, primary school generally goes from Kindergarten and ends in fifth or sixth grade. Students in ...

  8. Amber Straughn - Wikipedia

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    Amber Straughn. Amber Nicole Straughn (born c. 1979) is an American astrophysicist at NASA 's Goddard Space Flight Center where she serves as the deputy project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, responsible for science communications. [1] Her research focuses on interacting and star-forming galaxies in the context of galaxy assembly ...

  9. NGC 6822 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard's Galaxy, IC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884, with a six-inch refractor telescope. It is the closest non-satellite galaxy to the Milky Way ...