Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Investigate symmetry, one of the most important ideas in mathematics. Explore geometric notions of symmetry by creating designs and examinin g their properties. Investigate line symmetry and rotation symmetry 9; then learn about frieze patterns.
In mathematics, symmetry has more than just a visual or geometric qual ity. Mathematicians comprehend symmetries as motions
Begin examining rational numbers. Explore a model for computations wit h fractions. Analyze proportional reasoning and the difference between absolute and relative thinking. Explore ways to represent proportiona l relationships and the resulting operations with ratios. Examine how ratios can represent either part-part or part-whole comparisons, depen ding on how you define the unit, and explore how this affects their be havior in computations.
Investigate the circumference and area of a circle. Examine what under lies the formulas for these measures, and learn how the features of th e irrational number pi (π) affect both of these measures.
Watch Videos 11 and 12 in the 10th session for grade 6–8 teachers . Explore how the concepts developed in this course can be applied thr ough case studies of grade 6–8 teachers (former course partic ipants) who have adapted their new knowledge to their classrooms.
Topology, known as "rubber sheet math," is a field of mathematics that concerns those properties of an object that remain the same even when the object is stretched and squashed. In this unit we investigate top ology's seminal relationship to network theory, the study of connected ness, and its critical function in understanding the shape of the univ erse in which we live.
This session explores how objects used in religious ceremonies embody the spiritual beliefs of the cultures they represent. By better unders tanding these sacred beliefs, teachers learn to help their students co nnect to literary texts from unfamiliar cultural contexts.
I Choose My Future, a captivating presentation and video series, provides viewers with comprehensive, straightforward insight into how substance abuse impacts the individual, their families, and society.
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How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the persp ectives of historians shift? This unit recaps the economic and politic al events that led to the rise of the West, but examines and re-examin es those events through differing opinions of its causes, reflecting c hanges in historical interpretation.
The origins of the human race are traced from anthropoid ancestors to the agricultural revolution.n
This episode explores how written pieces are created and structured. W riting experts suggest various methods, such as freewriting and brains torming, that can be used to come up with ideas for written pieces. Th ese methods can also help a writer discover the structure of the piece . Guests also discuss the importance of revising and editing so that r eaders may fully understand the writer's intentions.
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