Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Investigate the difference between a count and a measure, and examine essential ideas such as unit iteration, partitioning, and the compensa tory principle. Learn about the many uses of ratio in measurement and how scale models help us understand relative sizes. Investigate the co nstant of proportionality in isosceles right triangles, and learn abou t precision and accuracy in measurement.
The flapping of a butterfly's wings over Bermuda causes a rainstorm in Texas. Two sticks start side by side on the surface of a brook, only to follow divergent paths downstream. Both are examples of the phenome non of chaos, characterized by a widely sensitive dependence of the fu ture on slight changes in a system's initial conditions. This unit exp lores the mathematics of chaos, which involves the discovery of struct ure in what initially appears to be random, and imposes limits on pred ictability.
Continue learning about organizing and grouping data in different grap hs and tables. Learn how to analyze and interpret variation in data by using stem and leaf plots and histograms. Learn about relative and cu mulative frequency.
Learn about the classifications of triangles, their different properti es, and relationships between them. Examine concepts such as triangle inequality, triangle rigidity, and side–side–side congruence , and look at the conditions that cause them. Compare how these concep ts apply to quadrilaterals. Explore properties of triangles and quadri laterals through practical applications such as building structures.
Learn that area is a measure of how much surface is covered. Explore t he relationship between the size of the unit used and the resulting me asurement. Find the area of irregular shapes by counting squares or su bdividing the figure into sections. Learn how to approximate the area more accurately by using smaller and smaller units. Relate this counti ng approach to the standard area formulas for triangles, trapezoids, a nd parallelograms.
In his tribute to Revolutionary War sites in New York City, Dave also pay tribute to contemporary New York, the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway in New York City, and the New York tradition of Lombardi's pizza. Beginning at the Shrine to Liberty on Long Island, Dave recalls how their overnight retreat and the dense fog that descended saved Washington's troops. Dave explains that prisoners of war were kept in horrible conditions on ships in the Hudson River and that 20,000 of the 30,000 Hessian troops hired to supplement the British army died from unsanitary conditions, rather than battle wounds. The defeat at Fort Washington is followed by the Battle of Harlem Heights that renews the faith of Americans that they can win the war against the British.
Connections can be physical, as with bridges, or immaterial, as with f riendships. Both types of connections can be understood using the same mathematical framework called network theory, or graph theory, which is a way to abstract and quantify the notion of connectivity. This uni t looks at how this branch of mathematics provides insights into extre mely complicated networks such as ecosystems.
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Media Arts Center Showcase highlights media created by the Media Arts Center San Diego
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This episode of GED Connection takes a look at patterns and shows how to solve problems by looking for constant relationships. It also takes a look at how to display solutions on a coordinate plane. The program starts out by looking at the kinds of patterns and how to look for co mmon threads within patterns. It then explains how to plot points on a grid and defines such terms as an ordered pair, x-axis, y-axis, origi n, solution set, and slope. It shows how to graph an equation and how to compare one equation to another by looking at graphs. This episode explains that the ability to recognize patterns is a math skill. When you get stuck on a problem look for patterns that can help you find so lutions, and look for patterns among solutions to see the bigger pictu re.
Media Arts Center Showcase highlights media created by the Media Arts Center San Diego