1001 Wonders of the World aims to take you on an adventure! The purpose here is clearly to give you an experience of what it would be like be at each location. It not only features 2000 spectacular images, and interesting information on the most beautiful places on earth but it has the sounds to help capture the feel of each of those amazing places.
Many elementary students would need to use manipulatives to solve the division problem above, probably by counting out 30 of some object then partitioning them into groups of six. But, how come as an adult, you were able to solve this problem without manipulatives? Is it because you learned math in school without manipulatives?
Let’s celebrate with music today’s super-special π Day that comes around only once a century—if we make sure to use standard American date-writing conventions. While traditionally, π Day is celebrated on 3/14 at 1:59, this year we can celebrate it twice on 3/14/15 at 9:26 AM and 9:26 PM. Head inside for opportunities for students to celebrate on their own.
With wide-ranging educational apps available today encouraged by the rapid growth of academic institutions that are leveraging mobile learning, children are now significant beneficiaries and successors of digital tools. Many of them might be aspiring to be designers, developers, and even app creators to become the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg.
The sun is a star and gives us heat and light and believe it or not, that heat that comes from the sun is constant and does not change in its intensity. So the same amount of heat that the sun gives in January in Chicago is the same amount of heat as July in Chicago! Yet, we know temperatures in Chicago are vastly different during that time of year.
While in the office and doing some research I overheard two of my co-workers discussing Raspberry Pi. Two things happened next, and I can’t remember which came first. One, my stomach growled loud enough for my family to hear it back in California; and two, I jumped from behind my desk and asked where the pie was, and who had the whipped cream.
This is not a law of physics nor of nature but an observation about the rate of advancement in computing. “Moore’s law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years—this roughly translates into the speed of computing doubling every two years.”
Love exploring? Love travelling? Love photography? Love to see new things? Here’s something that combines all of those: Panoramio is a user-generated collection of images superimposed on a world map, powered by Google Earth. If you’re interested in looking at images of a certain place, just move the map over to that place, and zoom in!
Ever call someone and accidentally hear a conversation between two people you’ve never met, you just happened to tune in to their phone line? As far as I understand it, one of the mechanisms developed to prevent interference or unauthorized connections, especially between devices connected by radio waves, is called frequency hopping.
Technology really is everywhere, even if sports doesn’t come to mind first as a field with high technology use and implementation. Staff Writer Eli Kell-Abrams writes about a piece of software used to perfect basketball. As our society continues to advance itself technologically, we also see some of these developments in the world of sports.
