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Algebra Magic - Create Your Own Number Puzzles Automatic Windshield Wipers Can an Astronaut on Mars distinguish the Earth from its Moon? Coastal Threat: A Story In Unit Conversions Color and Spectrum Contouring and Topo Maps Corrupted Politicians Could a World of Swimmers Raise Sea Level? Cross Section and Slope Determining the Altitude of Iridium Flares Dollar$ or Cent$? Domino Multiple Game Dr. Smith vs. The Lawyer Dream Job Earth Turns? Prove It! Geometric Addition + Logarithms = Geometric Multiplication Geometry to the Rescue: A Story in Pictures Grandpa’s Social Security How Far Can You See? How Many Days Are in a Year? How Now, Pythagoras? How Thick is the Atmosphere? Hypothermia in the Little House Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise Isoperimetric Geometry Just What is a Logarithm,pumas-56Home Pumas Rugby, Anyway? Launch Speed Learning from Slide Rules Learning to Think Globally Length of the Day Logarithms: Taking the Curve Out Making Months Mapping Your State and Community Matching Birthdays Metric Wins! Mixing and Stirring Modeling the Motions of the Earth, Moon and Sun Modulus in Real Life Now You See It, Now You Don’t Particle Man and the Photon Pilots, Airplanes, and the Tangent of Three (3) Degrees Preventing Hypothermia Probability and Traffic Signals Right Place, Wrong Time Rotational Motion and Rocket Launches Sand or Rock? Finding Out from 1,000 km Scavenger Hunt: Simulating Natural Selection Seeing Interference Fringes Seeing Interference Fringes with a Telescope Snowmelt and Floods Spoon Mirror Square Root of 2: Irrational, Yes! Impractionical,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], No! Square Roots Using a Carpenter’s Square Teaching Atomic Structure Using Cooperative Learning Teaching Radicals in Less than Five Minutes The Cause of the Earth's Seasons The Cause of the Phases of the Moon The Fall of the Ruler The Mathematical Implications of Lying The Moon Orbits the Sun?!?! The Rubber Band Problem The Shadow of the Dog There's Air in There! Thermo and Fluid Dynamics of a Homecrazye “Lava Lamp” Two Answers are Better than One Volcanic Clouds and the Atmosphere Volcanoes and Urban Planning Water Bottles, Root Beer, and Air What is Wind Chill? What the Doppler Effect Tells Us About Distant Stars & Planets When a Ruler Is Too Short Who Hits Harder: The Nordic Skier or Aerial Jumper? Why Don’t Clouds Fall Out of the Sky? Why is Summer Hot?
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