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==Links to various things==
 
==Links to various things==
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This has various links useful to Mr. Rasmusen's 7th grade math.
  
*The Zoom address is [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4850284384?pwd=1i9MBgKH1r8 https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4850284384?pwd=1i9MBgKH1r8 ]
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*The Zoom address is <span style="background:#00FF00">  [https://bit.ly/3TisLrj  https://bit.ly/3TisLrj]  </span>  or  [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4850284384?pwd=1i9MBgKH1r8 https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4850284384 ] Office hours will be sdfsfd on Thursday when we have them. Passcode:  1U9ygu.
 
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* An online Python compiler that can import the matplotlib module is at [https://www.codabrainy.com/en/python-compiler/  codabrainy.com.]
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* An online Python compiler that can import the matplotlib module is at <span style="background:#00FF00"> [https://www.codabrainy.com/en/python-compiler/  codabrainy.com.] </span> 
  
 
* An online  Latex math typesetting compiler is at [https://www.tutorialspoint.com/online_latex_editor.php https://www.tutorialspoint.com/online_latex_editor.php].
 
* An online  Latex math typesetting compiler is at [https://www.tutorialspoint.com/online_latex_editor.php https://www.tutorialspoint.com/online_latex_editor.php].
  
*The Zooming Scratch Paper Page is at [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mfuy8BLaIAYxYBG9tvY25upqMSbBfTxQo6BU49ix8HU/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mfuy8BLaIAYxYBG9tvY25upqMSbBfTxQo6BU49ix8HU/edit].
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*The Scratch Paper Page is at [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mfuy8BLaIAYxYBG9tvY25upqMSbBfTxQo6BU49ix8HU/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mfuy8BLaIAYxYBG9tvY25upqMSbBfTxQo6BU49ix8HU/edit].
  
[[Cedars Math:Handouts Handouts]] and [[Cedars Math: Words]]
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===Videos===
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*[https://twitter.com/MagicPi2/status/1656361958315106304?t=Rs3Id791BgUuLoHdBvJ88A&s=03 "Dissection of Square to Regular Hexagon"]
  
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY "How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room"] (6 minutes)
==Handouts==
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01a_How_to_Multiply_5_by_15_handout.pdf  "How to Solve It: Ways to Compute 5x15"]
 
  
*The "All Odd Numbers Are Prime"  [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Jokes#All_Odd_Numbers_Are_Prime joke]
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLffxwRlXcc An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland] (1961) (also contains  Mathemagicland) or just  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BqnN72OlqA "Donald Duck in Mathemagicland,] Disney. 27 minutes.
  
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script--14Students.pdf  joke script]
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*[https://www.google.com/search?q=whos+onb+first&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1012US1013&oq=whos+onb+first&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i13i512l2j0i13i512j0i10i13i512l6.1625j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1cf2aa14,vid:sShMA85pv8M "Who's on First?"] (4 minutes)
  
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_04b_hw_Plotting_Functions.pdf  HW 2.4b supplement: Plotting Functions with Python]
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4 "New Math,"] Tom Lehrer. About 5 minutes. Also, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlfXirQF3A "Lobachevsky,"] Tom Lehrer (1953). About 5 minutes.
  
*I've written up [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_04b_handout_python_divisibility.pdf    a handout of  some Python code for testing divisibility] by 2,3,5, and 7.   
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2SvqhfevE "I Am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist"]
 
*  The [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Polya_python_Connell.pdf  Python code]  by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.
 
  
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_08b_ Prime_Proof_handout.pdf Handout] on Euclid's proof, ]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_08b_Writing_letters_and_Emails.pdf Handout] on writing emails
 
 
   
 
   
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01a_How_to_Multiply_5_by_15_handout.pdf  "How to Solve It: Ways to Compute 5x15"]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01a_HW_Test_Two_Studying.pdf  "Homework: Things to Study"]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01b_Python_LaTeX_handout.pdf  Handout: "Notes on LaTeX"]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01b_Anaconda_Python_handout.pdf  Handout: "Notes on Installing Anaconda Python"]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.03_Adding_fractions.pdf  "Handout: Adding Fractions"].
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.03_All_Numbers_Are_interesting.pdf Handout: "All Numbers Are Interesting" joke].
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.03_Latex_rotating_symbols.pdf Handout: Rotating Symbols in Latex, and How to Find A Computer Command You Don't Know].
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/04_01_SixFootEleven.pdf  Handout: The Six Foot Eleven Puzzle] 
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/04_02_Puzzle_Decimalization_Shillings Handout: Puzzle Decimalization Shillings]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/04_03_order_symbols.pdf  Handout: Order Notation and Intervals]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/05_03_Cats_and_Rats_Handout  Handout: Cats and Rats Puzzle]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/05.03a_For-Test_Three.pdf  Handout: For Test Three]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06.03b_Handout_amicus_rasmusen.pdf  Handout:  Email Filtering Python code with If-Else statements ]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06_03b_syllogism.pdf  Handout: Syllogisms  ]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06_04_death_rates.ppt  Handout:  Death Rates  ]
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/nothing ]
 
  
 
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* <span style="background:#00FF00">  [[Cedars Math:Handouts|List of Handouts]]  </span> 
  
==Words==
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*[[Cedars Math:Words|List of Words]]
*Alpha and Beta
 
  
*Amicus
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*[[Cedars Math:Proverbs and Phrases|Proverbs and Phrases]]
 
 
* Amiable
 
 
 
*Century
 
 
 
*Copyright.
 
 
*Digression
 
 
 
*Endless loop. 
 
 
 
*Expendable
 
 
 
*Imperative
 
 
 
*Lemma
 
 
 
*Millenium
 
 
 
*Obsolete.
 
 
 
*Premise
 
 
 
*Psychology
 
 
 
*Shilling.
 
 
 
*Syllogism
 
 
 
*Theorem.
 
 
 
==Proverbs and Phrases==
 
*"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."  Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi," <i> Atlantic Monthly</i>, 1874. 
 
 
 
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes",] Who will guard  the guards themselves?
 
 
 
*  "A pint's a pound the world around." Thus, a pint has 16 ounces, and so does a pound.
 
 
 
*"Venite Adoremus": Come and let's adore, or Come let us adore him.
 
 
 
*"Veni, Vidi , Vici": I came, I saw, I conquered, in Latin.  Julius Caesar said this.
 
 
 
*"Per centum":  for each 100, in Latin.
 
 
 
*"e.g.": "exempli gratia", "for example", "as a free example", from Latin.
 
 
 
*"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné, "  "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." From  [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Quotations#Valery.2C_Paul Paul Verlaine and W.H. Auden. ]
 
 
 
 
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 1|Chapter 1:Whole Numbers]]
  
==Chapter 1: Whole Numbers== 
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 2|Chapter 2: Fractions]]
=== 1.1 Counting ===
 
===1.2 Addition===
 
===1.3 Subtraction===
 
 
 
===1.4 Multiplication and Division===
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01a_How_to_Multiply_5_by_15_handout.pdf  "How to Solve It: Ways to Compute 5x15"]
 
 
 
===1.5  Long Division ===
 
 
 
===Lesson 6, Friday. Order of operations, exponents===
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06test01.pdf  Test 1],  (arithmetic, writing numbers in words).
 
  
===Lesson 7, Wednesday. Exponents, neatness===
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 3|Chapter 3: More on Fractions]]
  
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 4|Chapter 4: Decimals]]
  
=== Lesson 8,  Friday. Graphics. ===
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 5|Chapter 5: Ratios and Proportions]]
*[https://www.ttrepairables.com/ T and T Repairables], a used car dealership out west  in the country.
 
  
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/08_hw_Graphics.pdf  Homework 8] (graphics, Python)
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 6|Chapter 6: Percentages]]
  
=== Lesson 9, Monday. Word problems    ===
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*[[Cedars Math:Chapter 7|Chapter 7: Measurements]]
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/09_hw_word_problems.pdf    Homework 9] (word problems). Remember also to ask your parents what is necessary for salvation, and, in particular, why just deciding to believe is not enough.    The key verse is "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble."  James 2:19. 
 
  
*[https://www.kachinaphotosblog.com/prayer-flags-and-wheels/  Here ]  is a good blog post on prayer flags and prayer wheels, with gorgeous photographs if the Himalaya Mountains. Someone came up with the idea of the "prayer wagon": drawings  [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/1.9_Briley_White_pictures.jpg here  ] and [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/1.9_3pictures.jpg    here. ]    Relatedly, the parable of  [https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/rich-man-and-lazarus_bible/    Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke) ]  came up in class. 
 
*WORDS: Amiable, endless loop. 
 
 
   
 
   
*  "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."  Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi," <i> Atlantic Monthly</i>, 1874.   
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[[Cedars Math: Miscellaneous]] , which has Music, Quotations, Phrases, Words, Mr. Rasmusen's notes to himself
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/07_hw_neatness_exponents.pdf    Homework 7] (exponents, neatness)
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*Python Code
 
  print("Buddhist  code.")
 
  x = 4
 
  item=1
 
  while x<6:
 
  print("Glory to God in the highest!",item)
 
  item = item +1
 
  print ("The End.")
 
 
 
*<i>Steps in solving word problems: </i>1. Figure out what the question is and what kind of number is supposed to be the answer. 2. Figure out which numbers in the question are relevant--- some numbers might well be irrelevant to getting to the answer. 3. Figure out what techniques you are going to need, e.g., addition, division, Python coding, looking up something on the Internet.
 
 
 
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/2021_09_16_Python_Plots_Cedars.mp4  1/2-hour Zoom lecture on Python plotting.]
 

Revision as of 17:31, 30 May 2023

Links to various things

This has various links useful to Mr. Rasmusen's 7th grade math.

  • An online Python compiler that can import the matplotlib module is at codabrainy.com.

Videos






Cedars Math: Miscellaneous , which has Music, Quotations, Phrases, Words, Mr. Rasmusen's notes to himself