Historia de un árbol

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Two-dimensional (2-D) shapes are all around you. There are regular and irregular 2-D shapes, which are both used in art including sculptures, mosaics, and paintings. One special pattern is a tessellation, which has shapes that fit together with no gaps in between. Many pieces of artwork and architecture use lines of symmetry-one side is exactly like the other. Another special pattern is a tangram, which is a puzzle in which there are different shapes that form a square.

El único deseo de Tim es dejar de ser Tim el pequeñajo, Tim el gordinflón. Por eso, cuando llega su cumpleaños, sólo pide eso. Pero el regalo de sus padres es un auténtico chasco: un par de zapatos, una mochila y la promesa de una larga excursión veraniega con su padre. ¿Será que los deseos recorren caminos inimaginables insospechados para que se cumplan?

One of the main tasks of the Institute for Teacher Training and Educational Research and Innovation (IFIIE), is, since decades, the periodic preparation of reports describing the Spanish education system in a detailed and up-to-date way. This report constitutes a brief version of the one recently carried out by the IFIIE: The Spanish Education System 2009. Its methodology of work has been structured into three stages: 1) search, analysis, choice and classification of both state and regional regulations as well as official statistics, 2) juxtaposition of the information obtained, presented in...