IB Pedagogy - TOK, IM, Aim 8 ... by https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u Share findings please en-us 2019-03-01 12:19:47 UTC 2025-12-31 22:09:44 UTC hello@padlet.com peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808430 2019-03-01 12:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808430 IM peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808493 IM Ancient clay tablets from Babylonia indicate that the Babylonians in the second millennium B.C., 1000 years before Pythagoras, had rules for generating Pythagorean Triples, understood the relationship between the sides of a right triangle, and, in solving for the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle, came up with an approximation of accurate to five decimal places.]]> 2019-03-01 12:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808493 Aim 8: Who really invented “Pythagoras’ Theorem”? peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808549 Hipparchus, Menelaus and Ptolemy. The first recorded use is in China, known as the "Gougu theorem" (勾股定理) and in India known as the Bhaskara Theorem.]]> 2019-03-01 12:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808549 The first zero peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808669 Cambodia]]> 2019-03-01 12:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/336808669 anya7us1 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339620979 Group 5: Euler in Action]]> 2019-03-10 01:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339620979 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339621704 2019-03-10 01:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339621704 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339623958 2019-03-10 02:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339623958 salirobo https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339624142 Group 4: BEHOLD!]]> 2019-03-10 02:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339624142 jayroy https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339626810 Math Applications vs Math Analysis - An obnoxious infographic]]> 2019-03-10 03:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/339626810 Why invent zero peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/341136148 Place value
Speed up calculations
lead to production of negative numbers
Use of different bases - link to binary system and hence computer computations.
Rabbit puzzle using Fibonacci sequence.
0! = 1 why?
a^0 = 1 why?
a + 0 v a.0]]> 2019-03-14 01:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/341136148 Pascal Triangle peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/341137023 Real life examples include:
The "dice race"
Taxi cab matrix
The price is right

Binomial coefficients

]]> 2019-03-14 01:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/341137023 Pascal T peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/344422369 2019-03-23 04:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/344422369 Pythagoras' peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/344422398 2019-03-23 04:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/344422398 Euler peter1_7 https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/344422420 2019-03-23 04:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/peter1_7/752m9lwovn7u/wish/344422420