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- Zone of Proximal Development
- Vygotsky's term for the gap between what a learner can do alone and what the learner can do with guidance from a more capable adult or peer.
- Conservation (Piaget)
- The understanding that quantity, mass or volume stays the same despite changes in appearance or arrangement; typically achieved in the concrete operational stage from about age seven.
- Operant conditioning
- Skinner's learning principle in which behaviour is strengthened or weakened by the consequences that follow it, namely reinforcement and punishment.
- Formative assessment
- Assessment carried out during teaching to monitor learning and adjust instruction; its purpose is feedback rather than grading or certification.
- Dyscalculia
- A specific learning disability affecting the understanding of number concepts and the performance of arithmetic operations, occurring despite adequate intelligence and instruction.
- Intrinsic motivation
- The drive to engage in an activity for its own sake, because it is interesting or satisfying, rather than for external rewards or punishments.
- Child-centred pedagogy
- An approach in which the child's interests, experiences and active participation shape the learning process, with the teacher acting as facilitator rather than sole transmitter.
- স্বরবর্ণ (Bengali vowels)
- বাংলা বর্ণমালার স্বরবর্ণের সংখ্যা ১১; এগুলি স্বাধীনভাবে লেখা যায় এবং কার চিহ্ন হিসেবে ব্যঞ্জনের সঙ্গে যুক্ত হয়।
- সন্ধি (Sandhi)
- দুই বর্ণের বা শব্দের মিলনের ফলে যে ধ্বনি পরিবর্তন ঘটে; প্রধান ভেদ স্বরসন্ধি, ব্যঞ্জনসন্ধি ও বিসর্গসন্ধি।
- সমাস (Compound)
- একাধিক পদের মিলনে এক পদে পরিণত হওয়ার প্রক্রিয়া; দ্বন্দ্ব, কর্মধারয়, তৎপুরুষ, বহুব্রীহি, দ্বিগু ও অব্যয়ীভাব এর প্রধান প্রকার।
- কারক (Case relation)
- বাক্যে ক্রিয়ার সঙ্গে বিশেষ্যের সম্পর্ক; কর্তা, কর্ম, করণ, সম্প্রদান, অপাদান ও অধিকরণ - এই ছয় প্রকার।
- চর্যাপদ
- বাংলা ভাষার প্রাচীনতম নিদর্শন, রচিত আনুমানিক দশম থেকে দ্বাদশ শতকে; সহজিয়া বৌদ্ধ সিদ্ধাচার্যদের রচিত পদাবলি।
- অক্ষরবৃত্ত ছন্দ
- বাংলা ছন্দের একটি প্রধান প্রকার যেখানে অক্ষর ও মাত্রার সমন্বয়ে চরণ গঠিত হয় এবং সাধারণত অন্ত্যমিল থাকে।
- বিভক্তি (Inflectional suffix)
- বাংলা ব্যাকরণে শব্দের শেষে যুক্ত হয়ে বচন, পুরুষ বা কারক-সম্পর্ক প্রকাশকারী প্রত্যয়, যেমন -কে, -তে, -এর।
- Reported speech backshift
- The rule that when a reporting verb is in the past, the reported clause moves one tense back, so present becomes past and will becomes would.
- Third conditional
- A sentence pattern using if plus past perfect in the condition and would have plus past participle in the result, describing an unreal past situation.
- Passive voice
- A construction in which the object of an action becomes the grammatical subject, formed with a form of be plus the past participle.
- Alliteration
- A figure of speech in which the same initial consonant sound is repeated in nearby words, as in wild and windy weather.
- Diphthong
- A vowel sound that glides from one vowel quality to another within a single syllable, such as the sounds in coin and house.
- Relative clause
- A subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun such as who, which or that, modifying a preceding noun in the main clause.
- Definite article
- The article the, used before a noun when the referent is specific, already mentioned, or unique in context.
- Pythagoras theorem
- In a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides, as in 3-4-5.
- Simple interest formula
- Interest calculated only on the original principal, using the formula SI equals principal times rate times time divided by one hundred.
- HCF and LCM relation
- For two positive integers a and b, the product of their HCF and LCM equals the product a times b.
- Photosynthesis equation
- Six carbon dioxide molecules plus six water molecules, using light energy, yield one glucose molecule and six oxygen molecules inside chloroplasts.
- Newton's second law
- The acceleration of a body is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass, expressed as F equals ma.
- pH scale
- A scale from zero to fourteen measuring hydrogen ion concentration; values below seven are acidic, seven is neutral and above seven is basic.
- Trapezium area
- Half the sum of the two parallel sides multiplied by the perpendicular distance between them gives the area of a trapezium.
- Fundamental Rights
- Rights guaranteed in Part III of the Indian Constitution, Articles twelve to thirty-five, enforceable in courts through writs.
- Panchayati Raj
- The three-tier system of local self-government in rural India, given constitutional status by the 73rd Amendment in 1992.
- Dandi March
- Gandhi's 1930 march to the sea at Dandi to break the salt law, launching the Civil Disobedience Movement against British rule.
- Indian Standard Time
- The time meridian of India at 82 degrees 30 minutes east longitude, which is five hours thirty minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
- Lothal
- A Harappan site in Gujarat known for its dockyard and bead-making, indicating maritime trade links of the Indus Valley Civilisation.