LINKS and Interesting Things!
Khan Academy
This link provided by MDCPS can help you prepare for the EOC. The link takes you to lessons in many areas, not just math. Try it out and you will find it a nice way to learn new things on the internet.
Albert Einstein
Shown on the right, 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
Please pick my brain!
Eucledian Geometry
This painting shown on the right is by the Renaissance artist Raphael. He depicts Euclid showing how to do geometry. Eucledian Geometry is the study of geometry based on definitions, undefined terms (point, line and plane) and the assumptions of the mathematician Euclid (330 B.C.) Click on the picture to find out more about Euclid and about Geometry.
al-Khwārizmī, in full Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Shown on a Russian postage stamp on the left was (born c. 780, Baghdad, Iraq—died c. 850), Muslim mathematician and astronomer whose major works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics. Latinized versions of his name and of his most famous book title live on in the terms algorithm and algebra.
Al-Khwārizmī lived in Baghdad, where he worked at the “House of Wisdom” (Dār al-Ḥikma) under the caliphate of al-Maʾmūn. (The House of Wisdom acquired and translated scientific and philosophic treatises, particularly Greek, as well as publishing original research.) Al-Kwārizmī’s work on elementary algebra
