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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
     
  • Video 
    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
     
  • Video 
    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
     
  • Video 
    Shh! Sound Health in 8 Steps

    Shh! Sound Health in 8 Steps

    Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental illness -- Prevention Noise pollution -- Health aspects
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
  • Video 
    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
     
  • Video 
    Is Anatomy Destiny?

    Is Anatomy Destiny?

    Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate?

    Subjects:
    Sociology
    Keywords:
    Gender
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Plumber apprenticeship program, Level 3. Cross connection control for plumbing and piping trades

    Plumber apprenticeship program, Level 3. Cross connection control for plumbing and piping trades

    "This manual is as part of your third year of apprenticeship training program you must have completed your level 1 and level 2 training to be eligible for this level of training in cross connection control. If you pass the theory and practical portion of this third year and your fourth year training during your apprenticeship training and pass your Red Seal Interprovincial examinations, you will be issued a Red Seal Certificate of Qualification. This Red Seal endorsement entitles you to work anywhere in Canada in your trade without material additional training, experience, examinations or assessments. Refer to labour mobility guidelines 2009."--BC Campus website.

    Subjects:
    Building Services Engineering
    Keywords:
    Cross-connections (Plumbing) Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
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    Introductory business statistics

    Introductory business statistics

    "Introductory Business Statistics provides students with an intuitive understanding of sampling distributions and their place in hypothesis testing. This texts aims to help students understand how statistics works, not just how to "get the right number"."--BCcampus website.

    Subjects:
    Management and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Commercial statistics Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • e-book 
    Analytical chemistry 2.0

    Analytical chemistry 2.0

    "Analytical chemistry is more than a collection of analytical methods and an understanding of equilibrium chemistry

    Subjects:
    Chemistry
    Keywords:
    Analytical chemistry Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book