Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Algebra I

2.0 Students understand and use such operations as taking the opposite, finding the reciprocal, taking a root, and raising to a fractional power. They understand and use the rules of exponents.

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Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Algebra I

5.0 Students solve multistep problems, including word problems, involving linear equations and linear inequalities in one variable and provide justification for each step.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Algebra I

6.0 Students graph a linear equation and compute the x- and y-intercepts (e.g., graph 2x + 6y = 4). They are also able to sketch the region defined by linear inequality (e.g., they sketch the region defined by 2x + 6y < 4).

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Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Electric and Magnetic Phenomena

5. Electric and magnetic phenomena are related and have many practical applications. As a basis for understanding this concept:

b. Students know how to solve problems involving Ohm's law.

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Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Electric and Magnetic Phenomena

5. Electric and magnetic phenomena are related and have many practical applications. As a basis for understanding this concept:

d. Students know the properties of transistors and the role of transistors in electric circuits.

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Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Electric and Magnetic Phenomena

5. Electric and magnetic phenomena are related and have many practical applications. As a basis for understanding this concept:

e. Students know charged particles are sources of electric fields and are subject to the forces of the electric fields from other charges.

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Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Electric and Magnetic Phenomena

5. Electric and magnetic phenomena are related and have many practical applications. As a basis for understanding this concept:

f. Students know magnetic materials and electric currents (moving electric charges) are sources of magnetic fields and are subject to forces arising from the magnetic fields of other sources.

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English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Writing

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0. Using the writing strategies of grades nine and ten outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students:

2.5 Write business letters:
a. Provide clear and purposeful information and address the intended audience appropriately.
b. Use appropriate vocabulary, tone, and style to take into account the nature of the relationship with, and the knowledge and interests of, the recipients.
c. Highlight central ideas or images.
d. Follow a conventional style with page formats, fonts, and spacing that contribute to the documents' readability and impact.

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English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Writing

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0. Using the writing strategies of grades nine and ten outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students:

2.6 Write technical documents (e.g., a manual on rules of behavior for conflict resolution, procedures for conducting a meeting, minutes of a meeting):
a. Report information and convey ideas logically and correctly.
b. Offer detailed and accurate specifications.
c. Include scenarios, definitions, and examples to aid comprehension (e.g., troubleshooting guide).
d. Anticipate readers' problems, mistakes, and misunderstandings.

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English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Comprehension

1.1 Formulate judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments with convincing evidence.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Comprehension

1.2 Compare and contrast the ways in which media genres (e.g., televised news, news magazines, documentaries, online information) cover the same event.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.3 Choose logical patterns of organization (e.g., chronological, topical, cause and effect) to inform and to persuade, by soliciting agreement or action, or to unite audiences behind a common belief or cause.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.4 Choose appropriate techniques for developing the introduction and conclusion (e.g., by using literary quotations, anecdotes, references to authoritative sources).

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.5 Recognize and use elements of classical speech forms (e.g., introduction, first and second transitions, body, conclusion) in formulating rational arguments and applying the art of persuasion and debate.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.6 Present and advance a clear thesis statement and choose appropriate types of proof (e.g., statistics, testimony, specific instances) that meet standard tests for evidence, including credibility, validity, and relevance.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

1.7 Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of presentations.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications

1.10 Analyze historically significant speeches (e.g., Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream") to find the rhetorical devices and features that make them memorable.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications

1.11 Assess how language and delivery affect the mood and tone of the oral communication and make an impact on the audience.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications

1.12 Evaluate the clarity, quality, effectiveness, and general coherence of a speaker's important points, arguments, evidence, organization of ideas, delivery, diction, and syntax.

Broad Correlation

English-Language Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Listening and Speaking

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications

1.13 Analyze the types of arguments used by the speaker, including argument by causation, analogy, authority, emotion, and logic.

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History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (1998)

Principles of Economics

12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

1. Examine the causal relationship between scarcity and the need for choices.

Broad Correlation

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (1998)

Principles of Economics

12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

2. Explain opportunity cost and marginal benefit and marginal cost.

Broad Correlation

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (1998)

Principles of Economics

12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

3. Identify the difference between monetary and nonmonetary incentives and how changes in incentives cause changes in behavior.

Broad Correlation

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (1998)

Principles of Economics

12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

4. Evaluate the role of private property as an incentive in conserving and improving scarce resources, including renewable and nonrenewable natural resources.

Broad Correlation

History-Social Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (1998)

Principles of Economics

12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

5. Analyze the role of a market economy in establishing and preserving political and personal liberty (e.g., through the works of Adam Smith).

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