How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries - Adam Savage
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Adam Savage (Mythbusters) walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed. One, Eratosthenes’ calculation of the Earth’s circumference around 200 BC, could be used as stimulus for a lesson on finding the circumference of a circle.
27 May 2012 Edit: 23 February 2014
- Topics:
- General, Space and Geometry, Circles, Science
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Measurement and Geometry, MA4-16MG Right-Angled Triangles (Pythagoras)
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