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Your Teacher Tuesday Offer -- April 24, 2012

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Your Teacher Tuesday Offer -- April 24, 2012

Postby Kathy_Bautista » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:09 am

According to Wolfram|Alpha, today we'll see a waxing crescent moon, with only 7.36% of the surface being illuminated. Here's a fun Demonstration that you can use to explore the phases of the moon with your students.

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Motion of the Moon: Phases by Marvin De Jong

Using the html code below you can embed this Demonstration into your own website, and it will now retain it's interactivity for anyone who is using Mathematica or the free Wolfram CDF Player.

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<iframe src="http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ext/embed.jsp?h=443&w=644&id=MotionOfTheMoonPhases&sig=vTU2450gbeimdwAj9G1LKVQC&nm=Motion of the Moon: Phases" width="654" height="493" style="border-width: 0px;"></iframe>


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