Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Friday, January 4, 2013

Tetris, Tetris, Tetris

       The game Tetris was first invented by a Russian scientist named Alexey Pajitnov. Alexey developed the game on an Electronica 60.            
       Over the years, Tetris showed up in a lot of gaming consoles, such as the PC, NES, Gameboy, iPod, Blue Lava Wireless, Nintendo DS, Wii, iPad, mobile phones, and in the Playstation Network. It even showed up as an in-flight game in over 50 airlines worldwide.  
       Did you know that Tetris can be healthy to you? Scientific research has shown that players of Tetris developed a thicker cortex and better brain efficiency. Also, a study by Emily Holmes, P.H.D, of Oxford suggested that Tetris may help victims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
      
       Link to a site with different Tetris games - freetetris.org

     Try to find these online games and play them:
    - Tetris Sprint    ( Try to make as many lines as you can to get the most points. )
    - Monotris    ( Instead of matching rows of blocks, you have to make basic Tetris shapes.
    - Tetris Labs    ( You are a scientist and you need to use Tetris blocks to make your way up to the flower. )
    - Mario Tetris 3    ( Mario/Tetris Mashup )
    - Tetris'D : The Game    ( You are a stickman and Tetris blocks are falling on you. Try to survive. )
    - RetroMash   ( Space Invaders/Tetris Mashup )
    - DropSum    ( Sudoku/Tetris Mashup )

 Roger Dean designed this logo for Tetris in 1997.
                                                  Image Screen-captured From tetris.com.

Today, Tetris is one of the greatest retro games in world history.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Tangled Headphones Phenomenon

Do you know why headphones, Christmas tree lights, or any other items that are stringy knot themselves for no good reason?
If you buy a pack of headphones, you'll find that they are not tangled. But, if you put it in your pocket or in your suitcase, it will tangle in strange knots. Scientists have conducted tests on this by figuring out what knots form in this process and how often they occur.
Do you know why this happens?

                                               Image Screen-captured On murphed.com.
 

Monday, December 24, 2012

A Fair(y) Use Tale


 Video Made By YouTuber "BelYaun".
This is a great video explaining what copyright law and Fair Use is. Interestingly, this video is protected by Fair Use since the Disney clips within this video is used educationally.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Different Infinities

No, I am not talking about the car model, Infiniti.
There are 2 different kinds of infinities: The decimal infinity and the whole number infinity. 
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     Ex. 0.111   Decimal Infinity              
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     Ex. 1,111,111,111,111,111,111,111 Whole Number Infinity

There are actually an infinite number of infinities. ( Mind Blown. )
I am just listing what I think is the main types of infinities.
Pi is a number where it goes on and on, but it never repeats itself. It's still an infinite number in my book. ( Figuratively, of course. )
If you wanted to see what the number Pi is on this blog, then here it is.
If you look really closely, you will see the number of pi go on forever in the background. It starts out 3.14 and moves on infinitely. 
                
     Image Screen-captured on Google Images. The image is from the site, pb145.com.