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A brief history and description of the 4-colour theorem and its proof.
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AUTHOR(S): Chris Fisher
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A geometric description of the square root algorithm.
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AUTHOR(S): A. Grzesina
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Aboriginal Perspectives is a companion web site to Math Central. It is part of Mathematics with a Human Face. The purpose is to create and make available lesson ideas for teachers, constructed around video clips with an Aboriginal focus. The site is under construction and in its infancy but the intent is that the number of video clips will increase and the lessons will span all areas of the curriculum.
Proceed to Aboriginal Perspectives.
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AUTHOR(S): Faculty and Students at the University of Regina
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Karen designed this website to assist teachers and pre-service teachers in the area of mathematics from Kindergarten to Grade 12 . Here you will find a multitude of teacher resources to assist you in incorporating Aboriginal content in your mathematics program.
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AUTHOR(S): Karen Arnason
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. This activity shows students that the answers to the census become useful in decision making when they are totalled and associated with geographic areas. Students will engage in activities centred on using a neighbourbood map, summarizing data about persons in households, and making decisions based on the results of their calculations (2 class periods). This is a pdf document and Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. In this activity, students create and analyse a population pyramid based on age and sex data from the 2001 Census. (1-2 class periods)
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. This activity introduces students to an overview of the Census of Agriculture. It helps them understand why a record of Canada's most important primary industry is needed every five years. Students will begin to form values about the place of agriculyure in today's society (1-2 class periods). This is a pdf document and Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This resource contains instructions on building a uniform polyhedra "star ball" from modules of folded paper. Animation is used to illustrate the folding of the paper. Students are then challenged to construct other uniform polyhedra from the same modules and to discover how they can be "coloured" by using coloured paper. The construction should be possible for beginning middle year students and some of the questions challenging to students at the upper secondary level.
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AUTHOR(S): Stacey Wagner and Jason Stein
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. It uses E-STAT which provides graphing tools to help us explore relationships among data variables. Forestry is a renewable resource, but are we planting enough trees to replace the trees that we are cutting down in Canada? In this activity we first look at the area of trees harvested for each province, using bar charts and pie charts. Then we analyse the total area of trees harvested and the total area of trees planted, for each province. The scatter graph is a powerful graphing technique to examine relationships. Through a series of analyses, we also look at forest harvesting trends in Canada over time, and the impact of extreme values or outliers on the overall "line of best fit" for the scatter graph.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. It uses E-STAT which provides graphing tools to help us explore relationships among data variables. The following example analyses the economic impact of tourism in relation to the Balance of payments. We will review the concept of seasonal effect. Also, we will complete a scatter graph. The scatter graph is a powerful graphing technique to examine relationships.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. Intermediate students research the demographic profiles of a neighbourhood in a large urban centre, retrieving data that will help them analyse the job market for babysitters. They will develop a better understanding of how population dynamics can affect them, either directly or indirectly.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This note is a response to a question sent to Quandaries and Queries by Ben Dixon asking how to approximate pi. Chris wrote a nice description of the method used by Archimedes in approximately 250 BC.
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AUTHOR(S): Chris Fisher
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The atlatl and dart, the predecessor to the bow and arrow, was very important in the lives of Aboriginals in Saskatchewan and all over the world up until about 2000 years ago. Experiment based lessons allow students to learn about the science behind the weapon system that put humans on top of the food chain. Subject integrated lessons for grades 4-12 in the areas of math, science and social studies based on Saskatchewan curriculum objectives.
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AUTHOR(S): Janice Cotcher
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. Grade 7-9 students select, retrieve and print data from a database. This activity will help students become familiar with the components of population growth.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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Canada at a glance is one of the teaching activities on the Statistics Canada website. In this activity students examine the Statistics Canada publication Canada at a Glance. They select data for subjects of their choice to prepare graphs, formulate textual descriptions of data trends and make predictions. The objectives are to promote development of data interpretation, chart reading, graphing and data analysis skills. (The publication Canada at a Glance is available online as a pdf file.)
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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