ASAC'ers, The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight. I'm at the beach in NC so should have very nice skies. I hear we can expect perhaps 80-10 per hour in...
Hi Everyone! Welcome back to YEAR 5 of Space Math @ NASA and the 'Weekly Problems' program!!! We have revised the website at http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov to...
Hello Everyone! I am now on Facebook, so if any of you would like to visit me and join a small group to discuss math and science, please be my friend ;> I will...
Dear Seniors My name is Juan Carlos Arias Cańón i'm Physics Teacher in the School Esclavas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Bogotá Colombia I interesting ...
Hi Everyone! Welcome back to YEAR 5 of Space Math @ NASA and the 'Weekly Problems' program!!! We have revised the website at http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov...
Hello Everyone! This weeks problems involve working with an image of the rings of saturn and the satellite Pan to determine the size fo the satellite in...
Hello Everyone! Today I have uploaded the problems for the October-December Quarter at http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov. There are a total of 12 new problems,...
ASAC'ers, The NASA Sun Earth Day 2009 website is up. Our theme is "The Sun, Yours to Discover" and you can see it at: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov We have many...
I have recently been using the Sega Homestar planetarium at school. This fills the huge gap between those terrible toy planetariums and the cheapest...
Mike, Nice to hear from you. This sounds like a great alternative for budget strapped schools. Is there a web site that might have some more information? ...
Hi there Mike, It is wonderful to hear from you! How is your school year going? Would your students be interested in an occasional email swap during the year...
A good review with pictures at http://the- gadgeteer.com/review/sega_toys_homestar_planetarium Check out ebay sellers who can ship to US addresses for as low...
Hi Dorian, I'm just setting up email pals between our older astronomers and learners in South Africa. I'm sure some of my younger members would like to make...
Hi Everyone! This is just a reminder that this years announcements for news fro mSpace MAth will be posted on the E-Teachers listserve from now on, so that I...
ASAC'ers I found a great HR diagram activity. It consists of colored circles representing stars with temperature, age, and luminosity printed on them. Students...
ASAC'ers; Happy New Year! I just got back from a wonderful ski trip in Canaan Valley, West Virginia and I think the skies were as clear as I have ever seen ...
Happy New Year! Welcome to the second quarter of Space Math @ NASA. I have posted some new and 'exciting' problems, 172-189 for you and your students to enjoy....
Hi Sten, My wife may be willing to translate into Russian for us if you like. What quantity of wordage (?) are we talking about? - I'll have a look at the...
Hi Graham, Thanks for the offer! Look at the 'international' page at the Space Math website and download the english version. Thanks for anything you can do,...
Oops..here's the URL..as it always is..just bookmark it for future use!! http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov Sten ________________________________ From: Odenwald,...
Hello Everyone! I have posted some more math problems today ( Problems 190-197) including many fine specimens from calculus and from our old favorite: Unit...
In the past, demonstrating the idea that constellations are composed of stars at different distances could be a bit tricky with bulbs and wires all over the...
Awesome! Just how do you think of these things! I'm gonna do it next week with my Astronomy Club kids. Cheers Mike, Graham ... composed ... and ... LED ... ...
Here is a little project for Afterschoolers to try. Please feed back your results and thoughts to the group. A Universe of Sand The numbers that are used in...
Mike, Thanks for an intriguing exercise. I'll bet Sten Odenwald would be interested in your math activity. By the way, do you know what general volume of sand...
Hello Everyone!! I have just uploaded the latest math problems that cover some really fun science too! Visit the usual place http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov to...
