Welcome to the PBIS 187 Home Page

Homework from Sink or Float? (not to turn in)

Web sites related to Probability :

• Cardano biography
• The Chevalier de Mere
  • biography
  • game
• Pascal biography
• Fermat biography
• Pascal's Wager
• Gerd Gigerenzer , Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin
• Gerd Gigerenzer on risk literacy TED talk
• Harding Center for Risk Literacy Facts Boxes
• U.S. Census Bureau
• CDC

Web sites related to Numbers:

• Calendars
• Leap year
• The UPC as a form of the GTIN
• The circumference of the earth
• The Astronomical Unit
• Metric to U.S. Customary
• Powers of 10
• Powers of 2
• National debt to the penny
• National debt by year
• Population clocks
• Median income
• Photographic Artist Chris Jordan
• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
• ngram ted talk
• ngrams
• Euclid on prime numbers
• Vi Hart: Origami Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

Web sites related to Geometry:

• The Four Color Theorem
• Euler in google doodle
• Polyhedra
• Euclid's Elements
• Semi-regular tessellations
• M.C. Escher
• Snowflakes and Snowflake symmetries
• Penrose tiles and coloring

Web sites related to Astronomy:

• Orbits:
  • Earth's orbit
  • Misc orbits
• NASA video of moon phases 2015
• NASA : Fun search topics:
  • earth's orbit
  • moon's orbit
• Libration of the Moon
• The Calendar

Maple is available on the campus lab pcs. If you want to know more about Maple, check out Maple's web site.

A TI-83 Plus manual is available on the web at TI-83 Plus Guidebook.