Administration: Individual. The DAB-4 is a revision of one of the most popular individual achievement tests available. Its 8 subtests identify studentsâ strengths and weaknesses across important areas of school achievement. A supplemental manual shows how to probe student responses to obtain information about studentsâ thinking processes and problem-solving strategies.
In 1992, the first evidence of a planetary system other than our own was discovered, orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. Three years later, 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet around a Sunlike star, was discovered.
Neptune was the first planet to be discovered by using mathematics. After the discovery of Uranus in 1781, astronomers noticed that the planet was being pulled slightly out of its normal orbit. John Couch Adams of Britain and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier of France, used mathematics to predict that the gravity from another planet beyond Uranus was affecting the orbit of Uranus.