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Encourage curiosity and problem solving!
(K-5th Grade) at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This picture book teaches students basic mathematics concepts and how to make simple comparisons. Featuring engaging images of various animals and simple, repetitive phrases, students will be eager to learn about basic measurement and data concepts with this engaging text that aligns to mathematics standards.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Usa las matemáticas: Descríbelo (Use Math: Describe It) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Engage students with fascinating content that will keep them enthralled from the first page to the last. Focusing on the sizes of different animals, children will determine which one is bigger than the other. This informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, vivid photographs,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This lesson focuses on linear function rules and graphs. Students begin by reviewing the meaning of a function, and that a function can be represented by a table, a graph, a formula, or in words. They then explore the relationship between a function and the coordinates of the points on its graph. They examine the effect of changing the value of a in y = ax, and look at the slope of a road defined as the change in y divided by the change in x. They...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This video begins the exploration of: How can I find the area, volume, or surface area of a geometric figure? We will begin by talking about nets and surface area. We will use a real world scenario to find out how much foam I need to sound proof the room I will use for my band.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When we use art to weave math into stories, we make it fun and memorable. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will use their imagination to create art that adds extra noses, eyes and maybe even animal features to people.Children will cut out features from one character and glue them onto others, then describe characters using number sentences. “My character had two eyes, then grew five more!
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Language
English
Description
In this program, geometry is combined with approximation to solve relatively complex problems involving shooting an arrow and landing an airplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Emphasizing the value of sketching as a visualization tool, the program also explains how the solution of the archery problem, through geometric inversion, can help solve the problem of a plane landing.
Series
Language
English
Description
This awesome game is great for TEACHING latitude and longitude and world geography. In Coordinates, students learn latitude and longitude while learning the locations and names of the world's nations. First, students are prompted to find the latitude coordinate. Once the latitude coordinate is found, the game locks the latitude position and the longitude lines animate into the map. Finally, students are prompted to find a point of longitude. If the...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Students will revisit multiplication and division and travel beyond the basics. Gear up for a challenge in factorization, exponential notation, and solving multiple-digit problems. You'll learn how to make sense of order of operations, square roots, exponents, and justifying solutions. So hold on to your hats and prepare to multiply and divide. Topics include: Number Sense; Comparing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Squares and Square Roots; Adding,...
Series
Language
English
Description
A fun 3D animated learning episode to support the early years development area of communications and language. Vicky Voice is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! In this mission she is learning about everyday noises and sounds. She is listening very carefully to the noises coming from the big screen inside the mission control room. Try and guess each sound before the pictures appear on the big screen. Have fun listening to each sound... there...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This program meets all of the Common Core kindergarten math standards for counting and comparing numbers. After viewing, kids will be able to identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group by using matching and counting strategies. They will also be able to compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals utilizing the symbols for greater than, less...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fear not, workshop math is not something to be scared of or avoided; Practical Shop Math covers it all from the basic to the advanced. By its very nature, woodworking requires a basic understanding of math. Various numbers, in the form of thickness, width, and length dimensions, are used to describe the physical size of a a woodworking project and its component parts. Inevitably, these dimensions -written as whole numbers, fractions, and decimals...
Series
Language
English
Description
This program demonstrates how "qualitative" bivariate data can be visualized by using a modification of the simple Bar Chart. Quantitative data is dealt with by developing the Dot Plot into the Scatter Diagram, which allows any correlation to show itself in a linear relation. The program explains how this correlation can be modeled by calculating a "Line of Best Fit," how to calculate 95% Confidence Bands, and how to calculate a summary measure for...
14) Reading Rainbow
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Feature Book - Mama Don't Allow When Miles gets a saxophone for his birthday, neither his parents nor his neighborhood can stand the racket! No one guesses what's in store for them, when Miles and his Swamp Band receive an invitation to play at the Alligator Ball. Alligator Farm - A visit to Kliebert's Alligator Farm where Heather Burden, a Naturalist from the New Orleans Zoo, tells LeVar about alligators and lets him hold a small one. Meet Fred Newman...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn about NumPy, the most useful Python library for data science and numerical computing.
NumPy provides Python with an elegant syntax and powerful array processing library. NumPy is the most useful and most powerful library in Python when it comes to data science and machine learning. In this course, Terezija Semenski introduces the NumPy data structure for n-dimensional arrays, then continues by showing functions for creating and manipulating...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Max is counting soda bottle caps, when Moon walks in and points out that he’s been drinking a LOT of soda lately. Max says he’s trying to collect 500 to participate in the soda company’s raffle to win the Robo-Captain 4000, a limited edition robot. Moon points out that this is a ploy by the soda company for people to spend more money on their soda. She says that Max has been living in a “fool’s paradise”, which is when someone is hopeful...
18) PBS Space Time
Series
Language
English
Description
The Kepler mission has determined that terrestrial planets are extremely common, and may orbit most stars in the Milky Way. But these planets are difficult to directly image because they're dense and small. Our Sun is about ten billion times brighter than Earth. Train a distant telescope on us, and it will be overwhelmed by the Sun's rays. So how can we find terrestrial planets around stars light
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Craft Kid Scarlett’s best friend Keith was born with cerebral palsy. Keith gets nervous when he rides the bus, so Scarlett wants to make Keith something that will boost his confidence and make him smile on the bus! Bondini and Super Mighty Maker Holly help Scarlett make Keith a cool fidget toy, the “In-Fun-ity Cube”.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Hard as it is to swallow, cutting-edge theories are suggesting that our universe may not be the only universe. Instead, it may be just one of an infinite number of worlds that make up the multiverse. In this show, Brian Greene takes us on a tour of this brave new theory at the frontier of physics, explaining why scientists believe it's true and showing what some of these alternate realities might be like. Some universes may be almost indistinguishable...
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