Integrating Math Across all Subjects

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Integrating Math Across all Subjects

• By Dr. Harold Williams
• of Montgomery College Planetarium
• http//montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/

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What subjects are Represented?

• English reading and writing
• Social Studies
• History
• Physical Education Health

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News Papers Useful

• Pluto, Soon to Orbit in a Less Important Circle?
  http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
  le/2006/08/16/AR2006081601830.html

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Plutons, trans-Neptunian objects
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Nicholson Physics Building at LSU with 8 known
major planets
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Proportional Reasoning and Unit Conversion
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Pythagoras Right Triangle Theorem

• Calculating distances given points
• Special Relativity
• Metric calculations

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Three circles one Intersection

• GPS, Global Positioning System, or celestial
  navigation, same problem
• Finding the location of earthquakes
• Triangulation with radio loop antenas

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