The Skateboard Designer - Video from the Futures Channel
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| Audience/Grade: | 6-8 |
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Design Industrial Design Mechanical Engineering |
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Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
| Media Type: |
WWW |
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Organization:The Futures Channel |
| Description: | Digital video from the Futures Channel. Synopsis: "Tim Piumarta took his love for the sport of skateboarding, combined it with his skills in mathematics and design and became one the world's most influential skateboard designers." Running time 5:19 minutes. |
| Rating: | No Rating |
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| Is Component of: |
The Futures Channel |
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How I use the Skateboard Designer - video from the Futures Channel This video comes with lesson plans for grades 6-8 with details: Skateboard Flex Subject: Mathematics Topics: Decimal operations, Statistics, Algebra Grades: 6 - 8 Concepts: - Ratio - Mean - Coordinates - Function Knowledge and Skills: - Can describe a real world situation in terms of ratios. - Can do operations with decimal numbers. - Can find the mean of a set of data. - Can plot a point in a two-dimensional coordinate system, given the coordinates. - Can relate aspects of a graphical model to the real world situation which is being modeled. |
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| Publication Date: | October 2007 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/realworld/skateboard_des |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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