Copyright and Terms of Use Agreement
LearnAlberta.ca

A. COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2003 Alberta Education. The LearnAlberta.ca portal and any trademarks associated with it under the Trade Marks (Canada) Act are owned by the Crown in Right of Alberta as represented by the Minister of Education, Alberta Education, 10155 -102 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4L5. All rights reserved.

Users should reference the copyright link on each resource for any special terms and conditions or third-party credits that may be attached to the use of that particular resource.

All digital learning resources found on the LearnAlberta.ca web site have been developed or licensed specifically for Alberta Education/LearnAlberta.ca. Canadian copyright law and international copyright treaties protect all these resources, which consist of a series of audience-specific web pages that facilitate access to a learning object collection that supports Alberta curriculum.

The LearnAlberta.ca portal contains third-party content that has been licensed to Alberta Education by third-party copyright holders. Some of that third-party content has been licensed specifically for the use of Authorized Users who qualify for a User ID and Password. Every effort has been made to identify all licensed material with a copyright symbol © or an appropriate credit located near the borrowed excerpt or in a copyright credit index attached to the resource. Please notify Alberta Education at copyright.coordinator@gov.ab.ca of cases where copyright has not been appropriately acknowledged so that corrective action can be taken.

Except as expressly provided herein, it is illegal to reproduce, modify, translate, distribute, sublicense, sell, rent, or lease any third-party material without written permission from the copyright owner or their representative.

Material that is not identified with a © symbol or copyright credit is the sole property of Alberta Education. Except as provided in the accompanying Terms of Use Agreement, it is illegal to reproduce, modify, translate, distribute, sublicense, sell, rent, or lease any portion of this material, including any derivative work without written permission from Alberta Education.

If Crown-owned content is to be used, reproduced, stored, or transmitted for commercial purposes or if you have any questions or concerns about permissions or copyright, please contact the Copyright Coordinator at: copyright.coordinator@gov.ab.ca.

Logo: The LearnAlberta.ca logo may be reproduced with written permission for non-profit educational purposes or for promotional and/or professional development purposes in Alberta's learning community. Any commercial use of the logo is strictly prohibited.

B. TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT

DEFINITIONS:

1. Authorized Users - "Authorized" users are currently enrolled students, their parents, and school staff of all publicly-funded, Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools in Alberta. This includes Public, Separate, Francophone, Charter, and publicly funded Private or Virtual schools. In addition, Alberta students in Education programs in universities and colleges and students working in upgrading programs within the K-12 context at colleges (for example in high school upgrading or college preparation programs) and faculty members, instructors and library staff associated with these programs are authorized to access the resources.

2. Guest Users - "Guest" users are those who do not qualify for authorization to access protected content on the Portal.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: Users should reference the copyright link on individual Resources found on the Portal for special conditions and/or restrictions that may be attached to the use of that particular Resource.

In return for the right to use the content accessed through the portal, You agree as follows:

1. Scope of Use
   LearnAlberta.ca Resources are licensed, not sold, to You for use on single workstations at home or at school on a computer network in an Alberta school jurisdiction provided. You also reproduce and include the Copyright Statement and all other proprietary notices attached to the original.

   A "computer network" is any number of terminals electronically linked and capable of sharing the use of a single Resource. To "use" any Resource is to load included files in either the temporary (e.g., RAM) or permanent (e.g., hard disk, CD-ROM) memory of a computer.

2. User Identification and Password
   A User Identification (ID) and Password are issued annually to those who qualify as Authorized Users. The UserID and Password enable Authorized Users to access content that has been licensed specifically for the use of school authority personnel, students, and their parents who are registered in publicly-funded, Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools in Alberta. UserIDs and Passwords may not be posted to a publicly accessible web site or distributed to anyone in any way who has not been authenticated by LearnAlberta.ca as an Authorized User. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your ID and Password.

3. Permitted Uses
   The following permitted uses do not require written permission from Alberta Education. With respect to content owned by Alberta Education, You:

   • may view, download (where allowed), store, reproduce and transmit Resources, including third-party items marked with a © symbol or credit line, "AS IS" for inclusion in your own electronic or printed lesson materials for your online or classroom students provided. You include any copyright or proprietary notices that accompany such material.
   • may modify Crown-owned content to suit your lesson needs but You may not change or alter accompanying third-party items. You may use the original and/or the resulting revised work for personal and non-profit educational purposes only. Once any change is made to Crown-owned material, the following acknowledgement must be shown in a prominent place on the revised work: "This work has been adapted from a learning resource originally owned by Alberta Education. (http://www.learnalberta.ca)"
   • may provide or embed links in online lessons for your students.

   Derivatives developed from Crown-owned content may also be reproduced for use within your school jurisdiction. Alberta Education is not responsible for such derivative works since they are not considered authorized resources of Alberta Education.

4. Restrictions
   

   • You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for any Resources without permission from Alberta Education.
   • You may not delete, remove, or obscure any author attributions, legal notices, proprietary designations, or copyright or trademark notices on the Portal or in any of the Resources.
   • You may not rent, lease, sublicense, loan, or sell any Resources.
   • LearnAlberta.ca Resources are designed to meet Alberta Education Recognizing Diversity and Promoting Respect Guidelines. You must not alter any of the Resources in a way that renders them inconsistent with these guidelines. For details on the guidelines, contact Nausicaa Rogoz.

5. Links
   

   • Permission is granted to LearnAlberta.ca guest users to post direct text hyperlinks to the LearnAlberta.ca web site provided. You link to the home page at www.learnalberta.ca and on the understanding that our content will not be used for commercial purposes or gain. The window, when opened, must be unrestricted in size and unframed. Alberta Education has no power over the content of sites that link to LearnAlberta.ca and hence takes no responsibility for their content. However, Alberta Education reserves the right to demand that a link to an inappropriate site be shut down.

     Please notify LearnAlberta.ca of your intent to provide a direct text hyperlink so we can track our site usage. Note that You may not use the LearnAlberta.ca logo as a link. Guests will not be able to link to portions of the LearnAlberta.ca web site that are password-protected.

6. Assignment: Rights under this Agreement are non-exclusive and non-transferable.

   Term: This Agreement is effective until terminated. This Agreement will terminate automatically, and without notice to You, if You fail to comply with any of its terms. Upon termination, You must destroy all copies of any Resources and related documentation obtained from this site. If You download and store or reproduce any copies of Resources found on this site, You agree to destroy or delete those copies once they no longer exist on the site or an expiry date for the Resource has passed or You cease to be an Authorized User in Alberta.

7. Updates: The Minister reserves the right to provide updates to the Resource from time to time. Once an update is provided, You agree to destroy all prior copies and versions. Only then does this license transfer to the updated Resource.

8. Warranty: The Minister makes no warranties - express or implied - arising from your use of the Resource and the Minister expressly excludes any and all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third-party rights.

9. Limit of liability and hold harmless: Under no circumstances will the Minister be liable to You for any consequential or incidental damages arising from your use of the Resource, including lost profits or lost savings, or for any claim by any party. You agree to hold harmless the Minister from any and all third-party claims, demands, or actions for which You are legally responsible, including those arising out of negligence or willful acts by You or by others under your control.

10. Governing Law: The laws of the Province of Alberta shall govern this Agreement.

C. INTERNET DISCLAIMER

• Many of the resources found on LearnAlberta.ca contain external Internet site listings as a convenience and an added source of information to users on an "AS IS" basis and without warranty of any kind. Alberta Education is not responsible for maintaining these links or the content on external sites, nor do URL listings in this Resource constitute or imply endorsement of that site's content. The Crown, its agents, employees or contractors will not be liable to You for any direct or indirect damages arising from your use of any of these sites.

• Exploring the electronic information superhighway can be educational and entertaining. However, be aware that these computer networks may not be censored. Students may unintentionally or purposely find offensive or inappropriate articles on the Internet. Since information sources are not always cited, students should be encouraged to confirm facts with a second source.

  See the following for information on web awareness and safety:

  • Safe and Appropriate Internet Use http://www.media-awareness.ca/
  • Safety 'Net@2learn.ca http://www.2learn.ca/mapset/SafetyNet/safetynetindex.html
  • Federal Cyberwise Strategy http://cyberwise.gc.ca/english/home.html

GRADE 6 MATHEMATICS LEARNING OBJECTS
ISBN: 0-7741-2417-2
Release Date: March 14, 2003

Copyright © 2003, the Crown in Right of Alberta, as represented by the Minister of Education. Alberta Education, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4L5. All rights reserved.

Some material in this electronic/digital resource is licensed to Alberta Education by the copyright owner for Alberta Education's use only. Every effort has been made to identify any such third-party material included in this resource by a copyright symbol © located near the borrowed excerpts. If cases are identified where copyright has not been acknowledged appropriately, please notify Alberta Education so corrective action can be taken. It is illegal to reproduce, modify, translate, loan, distribute, sublicense, sell, rent, or lease this material without written permission from the copyright owner or their representative.

Alberta Education is the sole copyright owner of all other material in this resource and, except as provided for in the License Agreement, or below, it is illegal to reproduce, modify, translate, distribute, sublicense, sell, rent, or lease any portion of this material, including any derivative work, without written permission from Alberta Education.

With respect to material owned by Alberta Education, you are permitted to:

• reproduce and distribute this material for educational use within the limitations of the Licensing Agreement.
• make Minor Modifications to the resource and use the resulting revised digital resource for personal and educational purposes within the limitations of the Licensing Agreement.

• All front-end modifications to pages that link off the launch page, e.g., Work plan, Structure, Support, Navigation, and Assessment. Information on these pages may be altered to reflect school policy and philosophy, and general school or course information and scheduling. For example, the teacher could include an e-mail address in the Support area where students may contact him/her for help. Similarly, specific instructions about assignments could be added to the Assessment area. Front-end modifications may also include added pages and graphics and rewritten pages.
• Any corrections to spelling, grammar and reading levels for clarity.
• Changes to subject teaching material within lessons, activities, and elements such as the glossary, and customizing information specific to the school or jurisdiction, information on lesson submission, additional instructions to students (for example, instructing students to complete Activity 5 before Activity 4 or instructing students to skip an activity).
• Design and layout changes that don't involve the navigator.
• Integrating the resource into online delivery tools or software packages such as WebCT, as long as the digital resource is integrated in its entirety.

Written authorization of Alberta Education is required for any Major Modifications to the resource.

Major Modifications include:

• Deleting a lesson, activity, or section.
• Copying portions of the text or illustrations into online delivery tools or software packages such as WebCT, or using portions in another work (for example, including parts of the digital resource in a different interface).
• Any changes to the navigator.
• Upsetting the Recognizing Diversity and Promoting Respect balance of the digital resource as a whole.

If this digital resource is altered, the following acknowledgement must be displayed in a prominent, logical place at the beginning of the resource: "This work has been adapted from a resource originally created and owned by the Crown in Right of Alberta, as represented by the Minister of Education, Alberta Education."

For permissions or enquiries about specific modifications, contact the Director, Learning Technologies Branch, Alberta Education, Box 4000, Barrhead, Alberta T7N 1P4.

Internet Disclaimer: External Internet site listings in this resource are provided as a convenience and an added source of information to users on an "AS IS" basis and without warranty of any kind. Alberta Education is not responsible for the content on these external sites nor do URL listings in this resource constitute or imply an endorsement of the site's content. The Crown, its agents, employees or contractors will not be liable to you for any direct or indirect damages arising from your use of any of these sites.

Exploring the electronic information superhighway can be educational and entertaining. However, be aware that these computer networks may not be censored. Students may unintentionally or purposely find offensive or inappropriate articles on the Internet. Since information sources are not always cited, students should be encouraged to confirm facts with a second source.

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TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT

GRADE 6 MATHEMATICS LEARNING OBJECTS
ISBN: 0-7741-2417-2
Release Date: March 14, 2003

END-USER LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR THE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES BRANCH ELECTRONIC AND DIGITAL RESOURCES

NOTICE TO USER: This Terms of Use Agreement (this "Agreement") is a complete and legal agreement between you and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta as represented by the Minister of Education (the "Minister") regarding the use of [identify the resource(s) name and ISBN] "the Resource". By using the Resource you acknowledge that you understand and agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, STOP using this Resource and delete all associated files from your system.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: In return for the right to use this Resource, you agree as follows:

1. Scope of Use: This Agreement permits you to use the Resource on single workstations and/or on a computer network in one school jurisdiction. You may reproduce this Resource for unlimited use within the school jurisdiction provided you also reproduce and include the Copyright Statement and all other proprietary notices contained on the original. A "computer network" is any combination of two or more terminals electronically linked and capable of sharing the use of a single Resource. To "use" the Resource is to load included files in either the temporary (e.g., RAM) or permanent (e.g.,hard disk, CD-ROM) memory of a computer.
2. Restrictions: You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Resource unless permitted to do so under the Copyright Statement. You may not remove or obscure copyright or trademark notices and you may not rent, lease, sublicense, loan or sell the Resource. For more information see the Copyright Statement.
3. Assignment: Rights under this Agreement are non-exclusive and non-transferable.
4. Intellectual Property: This Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights with respect to the Resource.
5. Term: This Agreement is effective until terminated. This Agreement will terminate automatically, and without notice to you, if you fail to comply with any of its terms. Upon termination, you must destroy all copies of the Resource and related documentation.
6. Updates: The Minister may provide updates to the Resource and reserves the right to charge a fee for updates. You may refuse to accept updates, but by accepting one you agree to destroy all prior copies and versions. Only then does this license transfer to the updated Resource.
7. Warranty: You agree that your use of the Resource on an "AS IS" basis. The Minister makes no warranties whatsoever � express or implied � arising from your use of the Resource. The Minister expressly excludes any and all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third-party rights.
8. Limit of liability and hold harmless: Under no circumstances will the Minister be liable to you for any consequential or incidental damages arising from your use of the Resource, including lost profits or lost savings, or for any claim by any party. You agree to hold harmless the Minister from any and all third party claims, demands, or actions for which You are legally responsible, including those arising out of negligence or willful acts by You or by others under Your control.
9. Governing Law: This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta.

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