This video explores the topology of the double-napped cone and through computer technology and graphics, demonstrates conditions necessary to produce the conic sections and their degenerates. Place Value of Large Numbers Uses special visuals to help give viewers a sense of numbers up to and including one million. So Pythagoras Introduces the Pythagorean theorem using a tiled floor. Animated squares and triangles alter their size and shape as possibilities are examined. Probability Students are given a clear understanding of probability and how it is used.
Viewers see how an insurance company, a mayor's decision, and a dice game all use probability.
Finding a pattern helps solve a problem. Viewers are encouraged to find a pattern by looking at data from different perspectives. Illustrates how flow charts, models, assembly plans and blueprints simplify, clarify, abstract or make concrete. Using Graphs Focuses on how to choose the right kind of graph to convey a particular point and compares situations in which the different characteristics of bar, circle or line graphs are most appropriate. Using Maps Focuses on reading and interpreting a map that someone else has prepared.