A whole new world

Yesterday morning, I wanted a refresher on rigid transformations in the plane, so turned to Bing or Google, I forgot now which.

This led me to reference 1, which did indeed refresh. Once again, I now know something about translations, rotations and reflections. From Topic 1, Module 1, Lesson 6: Every Which Way. With all these modules and so forth listed in something close to reverse order; all very confusing. And a filmic reference which goes with the name of their parent, as snapped above and noticed below.

From there to reference 2, the web site of the author, a mathematics teacher at the La Mesa Junior High School, to be found at reference 3.

With this school being the member of the William S. Hart family of schools, to be found at reference 4. A family which appears to be into secondary education, and a bigger operation than most of our county level local education authorities. William S. Hart was a big player in the days of silent film.

While reference 5 includes the mathematics syllabus which guides the likes of La Mesa Junior High.

So it might be the land of Trump, but they still have a very serious looking public education operation. I wonder if our own schools operate such flashy web sites and provide such flashy online resources?

Reference 1: http://mrpunpanichgulmath.weebly.com/math-8-notes.html. 

Reference 2: http://mrpunpanichgulmath.weebly.com/. 

Reference 3: https://www.lamesajuniorhigh.org/. La Mesa Junior High School in a place called Santa Clarita, a little to the north of Los Angeles proper. Sandwiched between some serious looking green space, the sort of spaces we would call National Parks.

Reference 4: https://www.hartdistrict.org/. William S. Hart Union High School District. Which appears to include all the secondary schools in Santa Clarita and its suburbs.

Reference 5: https://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/mathresources.asp. The big government referees. People Trump would perhaps have tried to get rid of, had he secured a second term.