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Visit our website and click on "Teaching" for a number of lessons plans and units. These captivating and ready-to-use lessons are available for students of all ages and grades and for a number of subject areas including the sciences, language arts, social sciences, and mathematics.
Some lessons available on our website include:
- The Sciences: the properties of air, heat, and butterfly transformations.
- The Language Arts: distinguishing homophones, homonyms, the comma.
- The Social Sciences: the gold rush, the underground railroad, revolutions.
- Math: Infinity, place value/decimalization, complex numbers, calculus.
The lesson for complex numbers, for example, begins with:
“Thinking about complex numbers is like thinking about five-dimensional objects: they pose a serious challenge to the imagination, and yet they become quite simple matters with the help of a few easy-to-master mathematical tools. In learning about complex numbers, students finally get a complete picture of the full range of numbers, a quest that began around the time they learned to speak, with the teaching of the first few natural numbers. However, to complete this quest, they must put all their faith in the power of their mathematical intelligence, accepting that they can graph and compute numbers that their imagination reels at. In introducing the concept of complex numbers, this unit brings out the magnificent power of abstract thinking.”
For the rest of the lesson, please click on: www.ierg.net/teaching/units/complexnum.html