Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms through the history of navigation, adventure and new worlds.
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Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms through the history of navigation, adventure and new worlds.
View full lesson:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-math-guide-our-ships-at-sea-george-christoph
Subtítulos en español.
The folks at Pixar are widely known as some of the world's best storytellers and animators. They are perhaps less recognized as some of the most innovative math whizzes around. Pixar Research Lead Tony DeRose delves into the math behind the animations, explaining how arithmetic, trigonometry and geometry help bring Woody and the rest of your favorite characters to life.
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/pixar-the-math-behind-the-movies-tony-derose
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Duración 7:23.
Math is full of symbols: lines, dots, arrows, English letters, Greek letters, superscripts, subscripts... it can look like an illegible jumble. Where did all of these symbols come from? John David Walters shares the origins of Mathematical symbols, and illuminates why they're still so important in the field today.
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-do-Math-symbols-come-from-john-david-walters
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Duración 4:16.
Michael Jordan's legendary slam dunk from the free throw line has been calculated at 0.92 seconds of pure hang time. But how many seconds could Jordan have gotten were he doing the same jump on Mars? Or Jupiter? Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson share the math equation behind hang time.
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-math-behind-michael-jordan-s-legendary-hang-time-andy-peterson-and-zack-patterson
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Duración 3:33.
Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient and hotly debated question.
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-math-discovered-or-invented-jeff-dekofsky
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Duración 4:58.
Graph Paper - all forms for high school math.
Downloadable forms of graph paper, number lines and grid papers.
Incluye papel pautado ortométrico, cuadriculado con ejes de coordenadas, para funciones trigonométricas, para coordenadas polares...
IXL is the Web's most comprehensive math practice site. Popular among educators and families, IXL provides unlimited questions in more than 2,000 topics. An adaptive learning system, featuring games and awards, inspires students to achieve.
When two people join a dating website, they are matched according to shared interests and how they answer a number of personal questions. But how do sites calculate the likelihood of a successful relationship? Christian Rudder, one of the founders of popular dating site OKCupid, details the algorithm behind 'hitting it off.'
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/inside-okcupid-the-math-of-online-dating-christian-rudder
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Duración 7:20.