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Life by the Numbers

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Description: Materials from the Public Broadcasting System seven-part miniseries Life by the Numbers, hosted and narrated by actor Danny Glover. Each unit has four parts: Start Here, Meet the Experts, About the Show, and Math Stuff, with QuickTime videos and Shockwave games. Units include: A New Age (geometry, calculus, boolean algebra); Patterns of Nature (fractals, knot theory, size and shape); Shape of the World (geometry, cartography, circles, angles, and echoes); Seeing is Believing (linear perspective, pictures from numbers); The Numbers Game (sports, crunching numbers); Chances of a Lifetime (statistics, the mathematics of games and gambling); and Making a Difference (using the tools of mathematics, linear perspective).
Levels: Elementary, Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Languages: English
Resource Types: Multimedia, Lesson Plans and Activities, Public and Government Institutions, Recreations
Math Topics: Fractals, Higher-Dimensional Geometry, Euclidean Plane Geometry, Statistics, Knot Theory, Geography, Sports

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