Slide rule Essays

  • Technology in the Classroom

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    step toward technology education in the social studies.” The Social Studies v. 91 no.3. (May/June 2000): 121-5 5.Scott, Thomas J. and O’Sullivan, Michael K. (May/June 2000) 6.Dinan, Susan E. “Technology in the classroom: Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows.” The Sixteenth Century Journal v. 31 no. 2. (Summer 2000): 453-5 7.Dwyer, Victor. “Surfing back to school.” Maclean’s v. 109. (Aug. 26, 1996): 40-6 8. Dwyer, Victor. (Aug. 26, 1996) *All of these sources were located at http://newfirstsearch

  • Math And Digital Computers

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    invention of the digital computers. Before people did the all complicated computation mainly by hands. Inevitably, there would be many errors due to carelessness or different accuracy. Then calculating devices like slide rules were invented to simply the calculations in the seventh century. Slide rules were mainly used for multiplications and divisions based on the concept of logarithm. But they weren’t very accurate. Thus some people had to rely on tables in order to have higher accuracy. The problem is

  • The History Of Computers

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    This was used for normal arithmetic uses. These type of computers are considered analog computers. Another analog computer was the circular slide rule. This was invented in 1621 by William Oughtred who was an English mathematician. This slid ruler was a mechanical device made of two rules, one sliding inside the other, and marked with many number scales. This slide ruler could do such calculations as division, multiplication, roots, and logarithms. Soon after came some more advanced computers. In 1642

  • Elementary Classroom Observation

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    For this field assignment, I chose to observe a seventh grade self-contained math class at William A Morris I.S 61 on Staten Island. I am currently a substitute teacher at the school and has worked at this school for approximately two years. For the purpose of this observations, I worked with Mr. Karl Knutsen, a 6th and 7th grade math, special education and technology supervisor at the school. Mr. Knutsen has been a teacher for seven years and has worked in I.S 61 for five. He currently teaches all

  • Calculator Use in Secondary Mathematics Classes

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    In 1972, Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP-35, the world’s first scientific pocket calculator at a cost of $395 (Hewlett-Packard, 2007). As advances in technology increase so has its accessibility. Currently, a scientific calculator will cost about $12. Additionally, anyone with internet access also has access not only to free scientific calculators but graphing calculators as well. Let’s not forget iPhones and all of the calculator apps that are ready for download. Needless to say calculators

  • I Love Technology!

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    as a child of seven or eight being taught what a slide rule was. My father pulled it out one day when I was checking my math homework with a calculator. He explained to me how it worked and told me that that was his “calculator” when he was in school. I took one look at that contraption, with all of its confusing measurement markers and immediately felt lucky to have my calculator, which did not look nearly as complicated as his old slide rule. From that point on I remember my father always

  • Ice Hockey Vs. Roller Hockey

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    on a dime, because the wheels just slide out from underneath the player. The stopping technique for roller hockey is basically the same as ice hockey, but the player slides a little before coming to a complete halt. If a player happens to fall in ice hockey he or she just slides along the ice and most of the time it doesn't hurt, but in roller hockey if a player falls on the plastic floor, it is going to hurt. When players in roller hockey fall, they do not slide, it is more of a...

  • Observation of the Early Childhood

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    completing the obstacle course. The obstacle course involved running up a slide, crawling through a tunnel, crossing a shaky bridge and then walking along a balance beam. Karligh ran up the slide with a considerable amount of effort. She quickly crawled through the tunnel and crossed the shaky bridge with little effort. She crossed the balance beam more quickly than I'd seen any child do that whole day. Bethany climbed up the slide in a time that was a bit quicker than Karligh's. The crawling through

  • Impact of cumputers on business and education

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    put into use: the MARK 1 in 1944 at Harvard and ENIAC in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania. Early use of computers in education was primarily found in mathematics, science and engineering as a mathematical problem-solving tool, replacing the slide rule and thus permitting students to deal more directly with problems of a type and size most likely to be encountered in the real world.[6] In 1959, at the University of Illinois, Donald Bitier began PLATO, the first, large-scale project for the use

  • An Investigation to Show the Effect of Temperature on Daphnia

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    metabolism will have stopped or decreased sufficiently to have stopped the daphnia's heart rate. Apparatus list Test tube Beaker Different temperatures of water Daphnia Pipette Stop clock Microscope Slide Safety Follow usual lab safety rules. There are no major safety considerations in this experiment as the daphnia aren't harmful and water above 40ËšC will not be used. Method To determine if temperature does have an effect on the daphnia, I intend to carry

  • Huck Finn - Life on the raft vs land

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    on the Mississippi River. On land, Huck has more rules to live by and he has to watch himself so as not to upset the widow or his father. On the river, Huck didn't have to worry about anything except people finding Jim. He also had to worry about the king and the duke for a while. Even thought there are many differences of the two living styles, there are also some similarities. Life on land was filled with many difficulties. There were many rules that Huck had to follow set by both the widow and

  • Basketball Needs To Be Fixed

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    instead of the game and its fans. This problem needs to be addressed, and the best place to start is with the college players, or more specifically, the NBA draft. The rules and guidelines that pertain to the draft are greatly at fault for the down slide of both college and NBA basketball and they need to be changed before the game down slides into nothing. The changes that need to be made are simple, underclassmen should not be eligible for the NBA draft; or in other words, if you have years of eligibility

  • The History of Computers

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    as it was often referred to as, “performed it’s operations by wheels, which worked similar to a car’s odometer” (Evolution, 1). Still, there had not yet been anything invented that could even be characterized as a computer. Finally, in 1625 the slide rule was created becoming “the first analog computer of the modern ages” (Evolution, 1). One of the biggest breakthroughs came from by Blaise Pascal in 1642, who invented a mechanical calculator whose main function was adding and subtracting numbers

  • The Handmaids Tale

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    freedom to do whatever they wanted, but this freedom was severely inhibited by maniacs who could strike at any time.  Women followed rules to keep them out of danger, but they were not enforced. "I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew; dont open your door to a stranger, even if he is the police.  Make him slide his ID under the door.  Dont stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble.  Keep the locks on and keep going.  If

  • Identity, Intersubjectivity and Communicative Action

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    others have shown communication concerning the "private" objects of the immaterial world (of fantasies, dreams etc.) to be. Accepting that we cannot establish the "objectivity" of our experiences' content, Kant nevertheless attempts to resist a slide into relativism by insisting that they are mediated by rationally delineated categories which supposedly insure the transcendental or universal nature of their form, thereby providing an absolute standard against which we might check the veridicality

  • Free Essays on Kafka's Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa

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    “When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off completely, could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes.” Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor into a “monstrous vermin”. The anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism, which fill Gregor’s life, are expressed by Kafka throughout the novel

  • Teens, Sex, and Virginity - Teenagers and the Importance of Abstinence

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    graders into the chapel for a special program. One of the teachers had prepared a slide show to demonstrate the effects that a sexually transmitted disease had on the human body. The first several pictures were not too bad, showing not much more than some bumps around a girl's mouth. As the show progressed, the slides got more gruesome. A man's genitals with large sores displayed the effects of herpes. Another slide showed the bottom of a girl's foot that had a hole the size of a quarter in it, the

  • The Concept and Measurement of Density: Lab Report

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    Place the aluminum cylinder and note the final volume, V final. Record the mass of the aluminum cylinder, water, and graduate in the data table. 3. Repeat step 2, filling the 50.0mL graduate cylinder to the 30.0mL mark with tap water, tilt and slowly slide the irregular solid to the bottom. Record the initial and final volumes in the data table. Record the mass of the solid, water, and graduate in the table. 4. Fill the graduate cylinder to the 30.0mL mark with tap water. Remember to read the bottom

  • Avalanches And Landslides

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    sights and killed nearly one hundred people, and covered a small town near Alberta with ice and snow. Another devastating avalanche incident is the 1964 Sherman slide, in which a huge avalanche was triggered by the 1964 Alaskan earthquake. The slide spilled out onto the Sherman glacier, during the big slide several other smaller slides happened and those were the one that took lives in Anchorage, and destroyed property There are a couple of types of avalanches and how the destroy so much this

  • Mountain Biking

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    Mountain Biking I have come to love bicycles in the course of the past year. I am especially fond of mountain bikes, including my own. Riding it opens up a whole new world of opportunities and challenges for me. I am still fairly fresh to the whole mountain biking scene, so I push myself to become better with more experience. Riding is an outlet; it is something I can channel pent up energy through. I love the sport because it is a full body, soul, and mind experience that affects all five