Los Angeles City College - 1 views
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mathprof on 19 May 12Los Angeles City College Welcome to Boan's Chemistry Web page.
Golden Ratio - 1 views
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Website discusses golden ratio, the idea behind it, how to calculate it, how to draw it, and it's relationship to the fibonacci sequence.
Put Down That Highlighter! - 0 views
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Put Down That Highlighter! Important article by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, on the Scientific American website: "Most teachers would agree that it is important that students remember much of what they read.
Math Skills - Dimensional Analysis - 0 views
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Website that shows how to do dimensional analysis and unit conversion.
Pythagorean Theorem - 0 views
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Links to various Pythagorean Theorem applets. There are various activities that allow students to explore the theorem, including various drag and drop situations to helps students see how the sum of the two squares is equal to the square of the third side.
scientific notation - YouTube - 0 views
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Video explains how scientific notation works in a stylish way with somewhat groovy music.
TeacherTube Videos - The Fibonacci Sequence-Rabbit Story - 0 views
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Video introducing Fibonacci sequence in warm and fuzzies using Rabbits and popsicle sticks.
The Fibonacci Numbers and Golden section in Nature - 1 - 0 views
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Website has loads of information about the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Number and how they occur in nature (Rabbits, cows, bees family trees, rectangles and shell spirals.
Theobrominated: June 2011 - 0 views
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Website talking about Fibonacci Sequence and how it occurs in nature (plants, trees, etc)
Mathematics Tutorials - 0 views
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Website has interesting number-sense/critical thinking style questions
Open Textbooks - 0 views
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Open Source Textbook
Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum Projects - 0 views
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A collection of math projects contextualized across different disciplines.
MindShift | How we will learn - 0 views
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education, technology, teaching, mind, shift
How to Safely Convert From One Unit to Another - 0 views
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Website has three examples of increasing difficulty on unit conversion (dimensional analysis) in a clear fashion.
The Scale of the Universe 2 - 0 views
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Applet that helps students get a sense of the relative scale of objects in the universe. A great site that helps students develop their number sense and help familiarize them with exponents and scientific notation (powers of 10)
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [1 of 3] - YouTube - 0 views
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Introduces the fibonacci sequence and how it appears in nature with pine cones, artichokes, flowers, etc. Vihart actually show how she counts the number of spirals using a marker.
Origami Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem - YouTube - 0 views
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Illustrates the Pythagorean Theorem using origami (folding a piece of paper). One actually sees the area of the squares of the sides! The top comment is insightful.
Doodling in Math Class: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [2 of 3] - YouTube - 0 views
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This vid discusses how the fibonacci sequence occurs in plants and introduces the number phi, which is the limit of the ratio between two consecutive fibonacci.
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant [Part 3 of 3] - YouTube - 0 views
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Discusses situatiions in plants where we don't have fibonacci sequences but we get something similar - Lucas numbers.Vihart also explains why these fibonacci numbers occur in nature (sort of).
logarithmic spiral - 0 views
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A website that talks about the logarithmic spiral. It relates the square root spiral with construction of golden spiral, which shows up in nature as a Nautilus.