http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVavAC3Tclk
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM2P
Where is the longest runway in the world? In the movie Fast & Furious 6 apparently. A lot of numerical calculations and rates go into solving this one.Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MFM1P
On the BBC's More or Less a really nice example of how 99% success rate in terrorist detection would result in a large amount of false positives in a country like th US with 300 million peolpe. Other stories include mistakes of decimal point in the media when reporting how manypeople die after surgury and the idea of whether some numbers are big (in this case the amount of paper used by the courts) and how hard it is, apparently, to divide 17 by 2. Those are on the May 31st Episode.
On the June 10th Episode they talk to Naked Statistics author who talks about the myths about caffeine drinking and pregnant women, where we send kids to school, and the target case mentioned below
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
If you liked Mine Sweeper and you like graphing then I have the game for you. Good for integers and plotting points. Make sure you read the instructions to figure out the strategy. Thanks to Laurie Hannan for htis onehttp://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MazeGame/
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM2D
How did Target figure out a teenage girl was pregnant before her father new? They used datahttp://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
I normally don't like these teaching videos but I actually do like this one on how to multiply integers using tiles. Really kind of neat.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
The development of the Area of a circle. Thanks to Kristina Smith for this one
Curriculum Tags: Gr8
A nice little primer for Probability. It starts off simple but actually gets more complex during the end. Probably best suited for MDM4U. Thanks to Stephanie De Boer for this one
Curriculum Tags: MDM4Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMe85qahPbk
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MFM1P, MPM1D
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Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MCF3M
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