TeslaTown vs Napier's Bones Simulation

Enter Tesla Town and explore electricity generation and delivery. Go into a hydroelectric power plant and see the turbine. Visit a solar powered house or a wind farm. - Designed for upper elementary and middle school students, grades 3-8 - Introduces topics related to electromagnetism - Demonstrates the importance and workings of current and future electricity generation and delivery systems. - Features include interactive structures and informational photographs Developed by power engineering experts and educators from the Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) and from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ©2018 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. The Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) performs multidisciplinary R&D that addresses the cybersecurity of power grids and oil & gas refinery and pipeline operations. CREDC is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (https://energy.gov), and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (https://www.dhs.gov). Consortium partners include: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, Oregon State University, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Rutgers University, Tennessee State University, the University of Houston, and Washington State University.

John Napier's contribution to mathematics was truly significant. Born in Scotland, Napier studied as a mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He is best known as the inventor of logarithms, but he also invented one of the first computing devices. The device, known as Napier's Bones, is manually operated and can be used to find the products and quotients of numbers. Napier's device was based on Arab mathematics and used the lattice method of multiplication. Each of the rods are inscribed with the multiplication tables for a specific number. By arranging the rods on the board, the product of two numbers can be found by performing addition operations. Use the Napier's Bones app to learn how one of the earliest calculating devices worked. More than 400 years ago, people used Napier's Bones to find the product of large numbers. In using this simulation you will discover a new way to multiply. Have fun!