Curated Video
Estimating Fractions to the Nearest Half Using a Number Line
In this video lesson, students will learn how to estimate fractions to the nearest half by placing them on a number line. By understanding the concept of estimating and identifying the closest round value, students can quickly compute...
Curated Video
Estimating Subtraction of Fractions with Unlike Denominators
This video explains how to estimate the subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators using a benchmark fraction of 1/2. By visualizing what 1/2 looks like and comparing it to the given problem, students can determine whether the...
Curated Video
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: Explained in Simple Words
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says that if we know everything about where a particle is located, we know nothing about its momentum. Conversely, if we know everything about its momentum, then we know nothing about where the particle...
Curated Video
Estimating Solutions to Multistep Story Problems
In this lesson, students learn how to estimate solutions to multistep story problems by rounding. They are taught the concept of rounding and how to use benchmark numbers to determine whether a number should be rounded up or down.
Curated Video
Dividing Using Rectangular Arrays
In this video, the teacher explains how to divide using a rectangular array. They also discuss the concept of multiplication and division as inverse operations and demonstrate how to break down challenging problems into smaller parts.
Healthcare Triage
Prescription Opioids: Balancing Short Term Pain and Long Term Gain
A new simulation study published in the American Journal of Public Health shows that reducing opioids for short-term pain saves lives in the long run, even as it leaves some patients experiencing more pain. This is the fundamental...
Science360
Self-Sacrifice Among Strangers Has More to Do with Nurture than Nature
Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to those who contribute to food banks. This is the...
Curated Video
Estimating and Judging the Reasonableness of Answers
In this lesson, mathematicians will learn how to judge the reasonableness of an answer by estimating. They will understand that estimation involves rounding numbers to simplify calculations and obtain approximate solutions.
Next Animation Studio
Oceans are absorbing more heat than previously estimated
The world's oceans have absorbed considerably more heat than previously estimated, according to a new study.
Science360
Navy veteran studies genetic variation - Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)
Graduate Research Fellow Amy Battocletti is a Navy veteran who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship in 2014. She’s a doctoral candidate in biology at Georgetown University conducting research on the impact of genetic variation...
Brian McLogan
Graphing Polar points as they compare to rectangular points
Graphing Polar points as they compare to rectangular points
Healthcare Triage
Overestimation of Benefit
In previous episodes of Healthcare Triage, we've discussed how people often misunderstand risk and how it affects them. We've also talked about how you can calculate the explicit metrics of numbers needed to treat and harm. But people...
Curated Video
Using Log Graphs to Estimate Parameters in Exponential Functions
This is a lecture presentation on how to use log graphs to estimate parameters in exponential functions. The presentation explains how to plot log graphs of exponential functions and how to determine the power and constant terms from the...
Brian McLogan
What do we have to know Classifying real numbers
👉 Learn how to classify numbers. We will classify numbers as real, imaginary, rational, and irrational.
Catalyst University
Fick's First Law (3): Graphical Estimation of Concentration Gradient
Fick's First Law (3): Graphical Estimation of Concentration Gradient
Curated Video
Methods of Estimating and Environmental Factors Affecting Transpiration in Plants
This video explains what transpiration is, how it can be estimated through experiments measuring the uptake of water by plants or the mass of water lost by the plants, and how changes in environmental conditions such as temperature,...
Curated Video
High Performance Scientific Computing with C 1.6: Monte Carlo Methods
How can we use random numbers to solve problems? • Learn why randomness is useful • See how we can solve integrals with random numbers • See how the accuracy of Monte Carlo methods scales
Curated Video
Estimating Liquid Volume
In this video, students learn how to estimate the volume of liquids using reasoning and benchmark volumes. The teacher explains the concept of volume and introduces common units of measurement such as milliliters and liters.
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Control – Building a Very Simple Epsilon-Greedy Policy
From the section: Model-Free Prediction and Control With Monte Carlo (MC). In this section, we will learn one of two improvements on DP – Monte Carlo, a method which does not require a model of the environment. We talk about a new...
National Parks Service
Glacier National Park - Grizzly Bear Research (Accessible Version)
Research Biologist, Kate Kendall with the USGS, explains the exciting work being done in Glacier to help understand one of the most magnificent animals on the North American Continent ). CREDIT: Glacier National Park
National Parks Service
Glacier National Park - Grizzly Bear Research
Research Biologist, Kate Kendall with the USGS, explains the exciting work being done in Glacier to help understand one of the most magnificent animals on the North American Continent. CREDIT: Glacier National Park
Curated Video
Assessing the Reasonableness of Sums Using Clustering
In this lesson, students will learn how to assess the reasonableness of addition problems by using clustering. By grouping similar-sized numbers together, they can estimate the sum and check if the actual answer is reasonable. This...
ProTeachersVideo
Jonny Heeley's Masterclass: Averaging Continuous Data
This maths masterclass explores practical ways of looking at continuous data averages usung the very practical example of what size gloves a glove company should make. To gets to grips with continuous data such as hand sizes rather than...
NASA
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 37, NASA Safety Center Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Safety Center Director Harmony Myers discusses resources to help achieve technical excellence in safety and mission assurance.