{"id":26,"date":"2012-07-19T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2012-07-22T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:47:18","slug":"vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, a common vocabulary allows us to communicate with each other and the mathematical community at large.\u00a0 Although developing our own terms for mathematical ideas might make them more meaningful to us, it limits our understanding of our peers and other mathematicians and their understanding of us.\u00a0 If creating your own terms helps you understand, I encourage you to do so, but you must also be able to translate your math dialect into common math for the rest of us!<\/p>\n<p>We have already discussed the following vocabulary terms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allwords.com\/word-sinusoidal+function.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sinusoidal function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teacherschoice.com.au\/maths_library\/functions\/about_trigonometric_functions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">amplitude<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teacherschoice.com.au\/maths_library\/functions\/about_trigonometric_functions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">period<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wavelength\" target=\"_blank\">wavelength<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Review each term as a group<\/strong> and make sure everyone in the group understands them.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Relate the terms to the diagram below.<\/strong>\u00a0 Which term matches up with which letter? <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9a\/Sine_wave_amplitude_wavelength.svg\/600px-Sine_wave_amplitude_wavelength.svg.png\" alt=\"File:Sine wave amplitude wavelength.svg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Discuss and record your answer:<\/strong>\u00a0 What other subject area(s) uses common vocabulary for this type of curve?\u00a0 Why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Continue on to <a title=\"What Came Before\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/what-came-before\/\">What Came Before<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, a common vocabulary allows us to communicate with each other and the mathematical community at large.\u00a0 Although developing our own terms for mathematical ideas might make them more meaningful to us, it limits our understanding of our peers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/vocabulary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4429,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jbarkeretec530assignment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}