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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Math Guide Our Ships at Sea? Unit PlanTed: Ted Ed: How Does Math Guide Our Ships at Sea? Unit Plan
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Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Math Guide Our Ships at Sea?

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Explore the history of logarithms and sailing by watching this animated video. [4:19]

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Concepts

angles, clocks, logarithms, sailing

Additional Tags

dead reckoning, sextant, briggs common logarithms, john bird, john harrison, john napier, math in real life, ted ed, ted ed lesson

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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