Showing posts with label Trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trains. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Building the Einstein Brain in Your Baby is Easy

A few weeks after conception, your baby's brain is already on its way to being developed. Several months before child birth, your baby's brain could already do basic functions. Your role in enhancing your baby's brain and developing it further starts as soon as child birth and continues throughout his life, or at least until he starts learning on his own.

According to Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory, there are about seven different types of intelligence - linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Some people can excel in all things involving math while others may have the gift of tongue. How we develop which intelligence would depend on how we were reared as a child.

Toys such as alphabet blocks and story books with large pictures can help your child develop his linguistic intelligence. For toddlers, you can give them toys that talk and say the alphabet and numbers out loud. Your child can them repeat after them. On the other hand, musical intelligence can be enhanced by crib mobiles that come with music as well as baby rattles. These toys give your baby a first-hand experience on how sound is produced.

Your visual-spatial intelligence can be enhanced with the use of building blocks or clay. Older children can be given puzzles to solve. You might also want to try handing your child a few drawing tools which they could use to draw what's on their mind. A trip to a nearby park can also enhance your child's visual intelligence.

If you want to enhance your child's logical-mathematical abilities, you might want to try giving him or her building blocks. Older children can be given construction sets as well as experiment sets. Rubik's cube is another way by which you can enhance your child's intelligence as well as toys that allow your child to mix and match. Computer games that feature cause-and-effect activities can also help enhance his or her way of thinking. A trip to the local museum can also help hone their intelligence.

Children with bodily-kinesthetic intelligence can participate in physical activities such as running around, scavenger hunts, dancing, etc. For babies, activities could include walking around, crawling and dancing about. They could also be given construction sets, building blocks and even clay.

On the other hand, enhancing your child's interpersonal skills would involve make-believe games. You can also allow them to act out characters from story books that you have read to them. On the other hand, puzzles and some quiet time for reflection, observation and analysis of things are just what your child needs in order to enhance his intrapersonal skills. Older children can be given puzzle books as well as brain teasers for them to work on.

Your child's brain can absorb thousands of information during the first three years of his or her life. Take advantage of this phase of his or her life by giving him or her toys that would help in the development of his or her brain. The more types of toys he or she is exposed to, the higher the chances of him developing his intelligence.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Why study mathematics? linear equations and the form of point-slope

As we saw in the article "Why Study Mathematics - linear equations and slope-shape, linear equations or functions, only some of the most fundamental areas of mathematics and basic algebra studied. Here we will look to consider and another common way to write linear equations: the point-slope form.

As the name suggests, the shape point-slope equation of a line depends on two things: the slope and a point on the line. Once we know the two things we canWrite the equation of the line. y1 = m - Mathematically, the shape of the point-slope equation of the line passing through the point (x1, y1) with a slope of m, y (x - x1). (The 1 in x and y is actually an index that distinguishes us from X1 and Y1 of Y allows X)

To show how this form is used, take a look at the following example: Suppose you have a line, the track 3, and the point (1, 2). We can easily graph this line byThe point (1, 2) and then use the 3-3 slope unit and then go right one unit. To write the equation of the line, using a smart device. There are variables x and y as a point (x, y). In point-slope form y - y1 = m (x - x1), we have (1, 2) as the point (x1, y1). We then write y - 2 = 3 (x - 1). Using the distributive property on the right side of the equation, we can write y - 2 = 3x - 3 -2 By right, we can write
y = 3x -1. If you have not already guessed, is to make this last equation in slope-intercept.

To see how this form of equation of a line in a real world "is used, take the following example, the information taken from an article in a newspaper. It turns out that the temperature influences the speed. In fact, the optimum temperature for operation below 60 degrees Fahrenheit. If a person was at his best, at 17.6 meters per second, he or sheslow down to about 0.3 meters per second for every 5 degree increase in temperature above 60 degrees. We can use this information to write the linear model of this situation, and then calculate, for example, the optimal speed of 80 degrees.

Let T is the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Let P represent the optimal speed in meters per second. The information in this article we know that the optimal speed of 60 degrees 17.6 meters per second. This point(60, 17.6). We use other information to determine the slope of the line for this model. The slope m is equal to the speed variation of the temperature change or M = P / T change We are told that the pace slowed from 0.3 meters per second for every increase of 5 degrees above the 60 ° A decrease is represented by a negative. Using this information we can calculate the slope to -0.3 / 5 or -0.06.

Now that we have a point and the slope, we can write the modelrepresents this situation. We have P - P 1 = m (T - T1) or P - 17.6 = -0.06 (T - 60). Using the distributive property can use this equation in slope-intercept. We get P =- 0.06T + 21.2. To find the optimal speed of 80 degrees, we need to get a compensation of only 80 for the Model T on 16.4.

Situations like these show that math is really used to solve problems that arise in the world. If we're talking about the optimum speed and maximum profit is the key to the mathematicalUnlock our potential for understanding the world around us. And if we understand, we are the power. There was a nice way!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

3D contain three Trains Puzzle

3D contain three Trains Puzzle








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This 3D puzzle is made in high quality paper. It is fun to play with. When you finish assembling it, you will get a great decoration item. It is a prize for you work. Enjoy it!


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