Day: April 9, 2021

Circling the Tangent

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Circling the Tangent is a lesson for students in a high school level calculus course or precalculus class. TSW learn and write the equations for circles. TSW solve equations to find values from inputs. TSW define tangent and normal lines. TSW use definitions of tangents and normals with the circle equation to create a unique artwork. Instructions. Students will write 5 equations. Each for a circle with a radius of 8 units. The centers are the origin and then in each quadrant such that four circles are tangent to both…

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Practicing from masters.

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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a standard for a style of writing that one need not be and do to be great but it is an excellent one to study for elevating one’s adaptability with language. I can not remember where I read it, perhaps it is in Death in the Afternoon, a book that I am unsure of finishing but Hemingway did talk a something about the craft in it (Stephen King’s On Writing is a much superior text on that subject and he is totally not Hemingway and…

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Insanity: An Open Letter to America

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Kelsea Comb first published as a start to her blog. She is a person of many things, poet and writer are two. She wrote this letter in the days after the election for the 46th president. November 04, 2020 (Excuse punctuation, just started writing) I would like to start with a poem by Countee Cullen. Incident Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee;I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked outHis…

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Tech Wolves Turning Up

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Electric guitars are cool by definition. They make for best projects for all manners of learning as sound as converted to electric frequencies and back again through an instrument that can be so pretty and bring real thunder. Between learning to make a guitar and play one, learners will find much of the course that is rewarding in of itself. Start when you start and we shall be somewhere along the way. We are started with the following curriculum. Guitar Building | High School Engineering | MIT OpenCourseWare “In this…

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Make your kindness natural.

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We had the chance to sit down with Memphis City Councilman, Dr. Jeff Warren, and listen to him talk about what people should be doing in regards to health and this virus. If you listen, Dr. Warren gives a nice explanation of exponential growth. This circumstance is very much at the intersection of math and science. Below are some resources on that aspect. Learning to count in a number base is the strangest concept at first for most. We associate the one we first learn with everything. Below is a…

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