Introducing Fractions: Summary: Introducing Fractions
This clip provides a summary of Introducing Fractions. It discusses how and why fractions are used, including for purposes of comparing one quantity with another, as a means by which to express division, and as a way to measure.
Controlling
This clip talks about the final management function, known as controlling. This is the measurement/feedback process that enables managers to determine if the goals established during the planning process are being achieved.
Endless Questions: Scientific Method, The
Research studies require measurements that can be replicated Deciding what to measure often begins with an idea or hunch and the development of an hypothesis. Researchers must create operational definitions, specifying how variables will be mea...
Going with the Flow: Measuring Ocean Currents
Given the importance of ocean currents in the marine environment, oceanographers have tried for years to accurately measure them. Advances in current meters and acoustic technology have made the process easier, but the task of measuring currents rem...
Measurement and Unit Conversion: Exercises in Unit Conversion and Cancellation Involving Weeks and Days
This clip presents problems involving the unit equivalence for weeks and days. In the first of these, the clip states that, "
we are converting from 91 days to an equivalent number of weeks
We will convert the units by multiplying two fractions." ...
Measurement and Unit Conversion: Measuring Time
This clip explains the basic units of time and unit equivalences, including seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades and centuries.