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    Math Class Needs A Makeover

    Math Class Needs A Makeover

    Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics -- Study teaching
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers

    Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers

    From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.

    Subjects:
    Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics -- Study teaching
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    What It Takes to Do Extreme Astrophysics

    What It Takes to Do Extreme Astrophysics

    All over the planet, giant telescopes and detectors are looking (and listening) for clues to the workings of the universe. At the INK Conference, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy tours us around these amazing installations, taking us to some of the most remote and silent places on Earth.

    Subjects:
    Physics and Cosmology and Astronomy
    Keywords:
    Astrophysics -- Research Dark matter (Astronomy)
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    What Physics Taught Me about Marketing

    What Physics Taught Me about Marketing

    Physics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding.

    Subjects:
    Marketing and Physics
    Keywords:
    Bring Physics
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    The Political Chemistry of Oil

    The Political Chemistry of Oil

    Speaking one month after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Lisa Margonelli shows how drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract us from the issue at heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off oil -- by confronting consumers with its real cost.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Sciences
    Keywords:
    Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects Petroleum industry trade -- Political aspects Petroleum
    Resource Type:
    Video