Cedars Math:Chapter 5

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Chapter 5: Ratios

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5.3. Equalities (Proportions)

• Altitudes and water boiling

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5 Various

• Video: How to pick random numbers from lists in Python; programming a two-die roll (2024)

• "Per centum": for each 100, in Latin.

• Kyrie Eleison

• Just the statue scene from Don Giovanni and the entire opera, "Don Giovanni."

• Population of European Countries, per Capita

• Altitudes (not covered 2024)

• De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum (not finished)

• A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas (1984). (not covered 2024)

• Using a computer to make Christmas cards. The card is available in pdf and in Powerpoint. (not covered 2024)

• "Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné, " "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." From Paul Verlaine and W.H. Auden. (not covered 2024)

• "Venite Adoremus": Come and let's adore, or Come let us adore him. (not covered 2024)

• "Veni, Vidi , Vici": I came, I saw, I conquered, in Latin. Julius Caesar said this. (not covered 2024)

• Handout: Cats and Rats Puzzle (not covered 2024)

• Handout: For Test Three, 2023

• We had a good discussion of Interesting Numbers, including a reference to The Incredibles. See "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is," Lessons from the Mouse blog (2017).:

On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special.

(not covered 2024)

• Decline in Death Rates (not covered 2024)

• Myriads (not covered 2024)

• Test from 1912 for 8th Graders (not covered 2024)

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