Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Learn about the relationships between units in the metric system and h ow to represent quantities using different units. Estimate and measure quantities of length, mass, and capacity, and solve measurement probl ems.
Investigate various approaches for summarizing variation in data, and learn how dividing data into groups can help provide other types of an swers to statistical questions. Understand numerical and graphic repre sentations of the minimum, the maximum, the median, and quartiles. Lea rn how to create a box plot.
Explore the properties of polygons through puzzles and games, then pro ceed into a more formal classification of polygons. Look at mathematic al definitions more formally, and explore how terms can have different but equivalent definitions.
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.
In Jamestown, Virginia, Dave recalls the hardships encountered by English settlers who established the colony in 1607. He reviews the biography of Pocahontas and credits the Powhatan Indians with saving the colony from certain disaster. A tour of Colonial Williamsburg allows Dave to explore life as lived in Colonial Times. Standing near canon emplacements at Yorktown, Dave recalls details of the British surrender and Thomas Nelson's role in the Battle of Yorktown.
Systems of synchronization occur throughout the animate and inanimate world. The regular beating of the human heart, the swaying and near co llapse of the Millennium Bridge, the simultaneous flashing of gangs of fireflies in Southeast Asia: these varied phenomena all share the pro perty of spontaneous synchronization. This unit shows how synchronizat ion can be analyzed, studied, and modeled via the mathematics of diffe rential equations, an outgrowth of calculus, and the application of th ese ideas toward understanding the workings of the heart.
In Part I, Cathie Wright-Lewis and her class explore the tradition of spoken word and the works of poet Abiodun Oyewole. In Part II, Sandra Childs
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