Pythagorean theorem

of education should be introduced by the activities of everyday life and then encompassed around them in order to relate them to the child. You see this problem in today’s education with algebra students saying, “Why do I need to learn the Pythagorean theorem. I’m never going to use this in my…

David Hume wants to explain to us a radical kind of skepticism in which the contents of our mind are described into two parts. The first part is impressions, the actual experiences that we have. For example, tasting an apple is an experience that we can have. The second part is ideas, copies of impressions in which we are remembering the taste of the apple. Renee Descartes view of the external world is through God because he is not a deceiver so material objects comes to existence. The idea of…

So what do we make of this relationship, teacher and student? For me, my philosophy says it does not matter at what grade level these students are, they are your students and you are their instructor, their mentor and ultimately the one to guide the students through their own learning. At age six, most children are ready to enter school and join ranks as Kindergarteners! They have a teacher instructed by others who will take them on a journey of discovery. Teachers will place their charges in…

In school, I wasn’t the top student and I didn’t get all A’s. I didn’t wear the Top Ten cords at the graduation ceremony. On my final report card I was 17/117 in my class. Yet I enrolled as an Honor Student in college. In the 21st century, people no longer are harassed for being smart or are pariahs for studying more than others. Although I didn’t study as much as others for tests and exams, I paid attention in class and sought help from classmates or worked alone if I didn’t understand…

The school syllabus is the "...outline and summary of topics to be covered in an education or training course.". It is the reason kids sit in classrooms and learn. The school syllabus has many inefficient aspects to it. This branches off into whether the subjects we learn in school are beneficial for students, as well as does it serve real world application uses once students graduate and begin their lives. A small portion of students would express themselves and state that the school syllabus…

Oh Mighty Greeks! The Ancient Greeks from the Greek Golden Age (c.a.480-430 B.C.E) up to the culmination of the Classical Style during the Hellenistic Age (323-30 B.C.E), were able to build one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen. We all have probably heard stories from the Ancient Greeks in our lives, but no until we research and study in depth their culture, one cannot fully understand the magnitude of the legacy of their classical culture. Due to the Ancient Greeks influence in…

Purpose: To use Parallax and triangulation to measure the indirect distance between two points. Hypothesis: If a long distance is measured using triangulation then it will produce an accurate measurement. Materials: 1. Protractor 2. Ruler 3. Tape measure 4. Table or desk 5. Paper 6. Pencil 7. Masking tape Procedure: 1. Gather all of your materials 2. Clear off your table or desk 3. Place an object at one end of the desk (image A). Using masking tape, label this point C. 4. From the end…

Goals E. coli is a type of bacteria that sense and swim towards sugar, amino acids, pyrimidines and electron acceptors. Thus, the goal of this experiment was to determine whether E. coli has a direct motion or random motion when a chemoattractant (glucose) was present. This was done by observing the velocity before and after the chemoattractant and by making Log-Log Plot. Theoretical Chemotaxis refers to the ability of organisms to move in response to the presence of a chemical. The movement…

Ty Bollinger begins his book The Truth about Cancer discussing Hippocrates, a physician widely recognized as the father of western medicine. Hippocrates’ medicine derived from the Pythagorean Theorem which is applied as four elements, water, earth, wind, and fire. I find it interesting that the methods and ideas that Hippocrates presented are still in use today. The most common influences seen today would be the words of diagnosis and symptoms, which have their origins in Hippocratic medicine.…

artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” It is hard to be someone who doesn’t fit into the academic guidelines of the education system and therefore many people who feel a passion for anything beyond the creativity of the Pythagorean theorem. Being creative is necessary for many of us and the school system rarely acknowledges this leaving us to oppress those talents of artist that we are born with. Robinson points out something that is true and should be worrisome but no one…