Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Explore the basics of geometric thinking using rich visualization prob lems and mathematical language. Use your intuition and visual tools fo r geometric construction. Reflect on the basic objects of geometry and their representation.
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 examining the number line and the relationships among sets of numbers that make up the real number system. Explore which operations and properties hold true for each of the sets. Consider the magnitude of these infinite sets and discover that infinity comes in more than one size. Examine place value and the significance of zero in a place value system.
Explore what can be measured and what it means to measure. Identify me asurable properties such as weight, surface area, and volume, and disc uss which metric units are more appropriate for measuring these proper ties. Refine your use of precision instruments, and learn about altern ate methods such as displacement. Explore approximation techniques, an d reason about how to make better approximations.
Review and explore transformations such as translation, reflection, an d rotation. Apply these ideas to solve more complex geometric problems . Use your knowledge of properties of figures to reason through, solve , and justify your solutions to problems. Analyze and prove the midlin e theorem.
Standing on the banks of the Delaware near Philadelphia, Dave recalls the victory at Trenton, New Jersey when the Continental Army crossed the Delaware and overcame the Hessian troops under the command of Colonel Rall. At Monmouth Battlefield State Park Dave introduces the "first Pentagon", a dining room at Ford House that served as meeting place for the leaders of the Continental Army in the two winters that Washington and his troops prepared for the final battles of the Revolutionary War.
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.
Paintings, sculpture, and other works of visual art express ideals in their own language. This session demonstrates how to identify the styl e, form, and subject matter of appropriate works to help draw out the cultural setting of literary texts.
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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What factors shape the ways in which the basic resources are exploited by a society? From Southeast Asia to Russia, Africa, and the Americas , the ratios between land availability and the usable labor force were the primary basis of pre-industrial economies, but politics, environm ent, and culture played a part as well.
Two hundred years of war and plague debilitated Europe.
This episode of GED Connection talks about the elements of fiction you need to look for when you read. Fiction is a story that the writer ha s made up and the GED test has passages from both contemporary and cla ssic works of fiction. This program discusses ways to analyze fiction and says that a good way to start doing that is to react to a story in light of your own experiences. Every work of fiction has characters, a plot, and a setting. Another element found in fiction is conflict. C onflict involves come sort of tension or struggle and can be internal or external. In fiction, plot, character, and conflict help reveal the theme or message of a story. The program also discusses point of view , that knowing the perspective from which a story is told determines w hat kind of information we get as readers. In fiction it is important to recognize what type of narration is used and if the passage conveys some sort of feeling or attitude. This feeling or attitude is called tone, whereas the personality of the piece is called style and has to do with the kind of story the author is writing. The student is remind ed that the best way to prepare for this portion of the test is to rea d a variety of fiction.
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