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Video 1: How to add decimals
Video 2: Examples of adding decimals
Video 3: Common mistakes made when adding decimals

Video 1: An introduction to adding decimals 
Video 2: Adding decimals with ones and tenths parts
Video 3: Adding decimals (tenths)
Video 4: Adding decimals (hundredths)
Video 5: Adding decimals with ones, tenths and hundredths
Online activity: This activity poses four questions where you are required to add different forms of decimals

Part 1: Applications of decimals
Part 2: Examples showing how the application of decimals is used in everyday life
Part 3: Common misconception when applying decimals

The amount of effort saved when using machines is called mechanical advantage (MA). Simple machines use mechanical advantage as a key property to their functionality, helping humans perform tasks that would require more force than a person could produce. We will use the lever as an example of a simple machine to illustrate the concept of mechanical advantage.

Video 1: Explores the conversion of fractions to decimals: tenths, hundredths and thousandths
Video 2: Two examples of converting fractions to decimals

Video 1: Dividing a decimal by a whole number with fraction models
Video 2: Dividing a decimal by a whole number on the number line
Video 3: Example of dividing a decimal by a whole number
Online activity 1: Dividing decimals by whole numbers
Video 4: Visually dividing a whole number by a decimal
Online activity 2: Dividing whole numbers by decimals

There are many different processes and phenomena that emit electromagnetic radiation. Humans have taken advantage of many of these processes to develop technologies that use electromagnetic radiation.

The beauty of a coral reef, the warm radiance of sunshine, the sting of sunburn, the X-ray revealing a broken bone, even microwave popcorn—all are brought to us by electromagnetic waves. The list of the various types of electromagnetic waves, ranging from radio transmission waves to nuclear gamma-ray (γ-ray) emissions, is interesting in itself.

Even more intriguing is that all of these different phenomena are manifestations of the same thing—electromagnetic waves (see Figure 15.1). What are electromagnetic waves? How are they created, and how do they travel? How can we understand their widely varying properties? What is the relationship between electric and magnetic effects? These and other questions will be explored.

An image that illustrates light reflecting off a plain mirror.

In this unit we will learn how these factors can affect the output of a simple machine. We will also learn about the difference between ideal mechanical advantage (IMA) and actual mechanical advantage (AMA), and how to apply your knowledge to calculate the efficiency of various simple machines.