Units of measurement by country
A number of units of measurement were used in Haiti to measure length, area, volume, etc. Since 1921, Metric system has been compulsory in Haiti. (Wikipedia).
Ex: Metric Conversions Using Unit Fractions - Length
This video provides three examples of how to perform metric conversions involving length using unit fractions. Site: http://mathispower4u.com Blog: http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com
From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units
Examples: Converting Between Metric Units
This video provides several examples of converting between different metric units of measure.
From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units
This video explains how to convert to different metric units of measure for length, capacity, and mass. http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com/
From playlist Unit Conversions: Metric Units
What is a metre: from Fizzics.org
The international base unit of length, accepted as the world wide standard, but where did it come from, who decided and how exactly is it defined.
From playlist Units of measurement
Trigonometry: Radians and Degrees
How do we measure angle? We measure distance with a ruler and use units like feet, meter, mile, and lightyear. We measure time using a clock and use units of seconds, days, or millennia, among others. With angle we could use a protractor and also use many units: the turn, gradians, degre
From playlist Trigonometry
This video shows how to use unit scale to determine the actual dimensions of a model and how to determine the dimensions of a model from an actual dimensions. http://mathispower4u.yolasite.com/
From playlist Unit Scale and Scale Factor
Micrometer/diameter of daily used objects.
What was the diameter? music: https://www.bensound.com/
From playlist Fine Measurements
International System (SI) Units
From playlist a. Numbers and Measurement
Gordon Geballe: Haiti and Sustainable Development in a Post-disaster Context
November 20, 2013 Gordon Geballe is Associate Dean of Alumni and External Affairs, and Lecturer in Urban Ecology at Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is interested in sustainability issues that are faced by small-island developing states. We talk with him about Haiti an
From playlist The MacMillan Report
On Surrounding a Polygon & JMA Outstanding Paper Award – Craig Kaplan
I introduce the problem of computing the Heesch number of a polygon, give some new results of non-trivial Heesch numbers of simple shapes like polyominoes, and demonstrate Good Fences, a mobile game I developed based on surrounding polygons. I reveal the short list of nominees for the 201
From playlist G4G12 Videos
More Standard Deviation and Variance
Further explanations and examples of standard deviation and variance
From playlist Unit 1: Descriptive Statistics
Guest lecture (2022): Unmaking and remaking community (part 2)
MIT 24.908 Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities, Spring 2017 (Guest Lecture, 2022) Instructor: Prof. Jean Casimir (guest lecturer) View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-908-creole-languages-and-caribbean-identities-spring-2017/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube
From playlist MIT 24.908 Creole Language and Caribbean Identities, Spring 2017
Pig Out Panel 6: Imperial Swine and Settler Colonialism
The second day of the conference, Panels 5-7, revolved around a broad theme of ecologies—in labor, history, politics, and literature. In the afternoon, Robin Derby and Marcy Norton offered an environmental perspective to our current understanding of empire by examining how pigs configured
From playlist Pig Out – Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Context
Banana Wars - US Marines Occupy Cuba, Haiti & Dominican Republic (Documentary)
Following the Spanish-American War, the United States foreign policy, under the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, intervened in several countries in Central America and the Caribbean. The United States Marine Corps was usually the military arm of these involvements as was the case in Cuba,
From playlist The Great War - 1921
The Haitian Revolution - Lies - Extra History
We answer your questions, correct small hiccups we made, and expand on the stories that were too wild, weird, or complicated to fit into the main series. Welcome to this episode of Lies! What about the Polish troops that helped the revolution? Where did we get our numbers from? How does Wa
From playlist Extra History (ALL EPISODES)
Global Health: Crash Course Public Health #9
Disease doesn’t care about national borders. The pathogen hopping the red eye from Berlin to Boston doesn’t need a passport. So, in order to be proactive about protecting our health, we need to think globally. In this episode of Crash Course Public Health, we’re traveling around the world
From playlist Public Health
Ugly history: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/ugly-history-the-1937-haitian-massacre-edward-paulino When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during and between the two World Wars. But two months before the Rape of Nanking in Chi
From playlist Facing our ugly history
Sèvi ak sondaj pami etidyan yo pou n byen kadre ansèyman an selon pwofil etidyan yo (Surveys)
MIT 24.908 Creole Language and Caribbean Identities, Spring 2017 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/24-908S17 Instructor: Michel DeGraff In this video, Michel DeGraff describes how he uses student surveys to customize his teaching in the course. License: Creative Commons BY-NC
From playlist How We Teach: MIT 24.908 Creole Language and Caribbean Identities, Spring 2017
Parsecs, astronomical units and light years, distance units explained: fizzics.org
Notes to support this video lesson are here: https://www.fizzics.org/measuring-distance-in-astronomy/ Astronomical units , the parsec and the light year are different units commonly used to measure distances in astronomy. Where they come from and how they relate to our basic units of measu
From playlist Astronomy - physics of measuring distance
Guest lecture (2022): Unmaking and remaking community (part 1)
MIT 24.908 Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities, Spring 2017 (Guest Lecture, 2022) Instructor: Prof. Michel DeGraff, Prof. Jean Casimir (guest lecturer) View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-908-creole-languages-and-caribbean-identities-spring-2017/ YouTube Playlis
From playlist MIT 24.908 Creole Language and Caribbean Identities, Spring 2017