laboratoryequipment: Analyzer Ensures Great Pizza CrustBrookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the TA-PTF Pizza Test Fixture for their CT3 Texture Analyzer. The Pizza Test Fixture is designed to test the extensibility and tensile breaking strength of pizza crust and other similar food items. The measurements are used as an indicator that corresponds with the firmness and stringiness you experience as the pizza is pulled away from your teeth and palate. Brookfield works with customers to develop the testing methodology required to provide consistent test results.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Analyzer-Ensures-Great-Pizza-Crust-052112.aspx Tensile testing pizza! It’s not every day you see materials science interact with food like this. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find this interesting.
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Analyzer Ensures Great Pizza Crust

Brookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the TA-PTF Pizza Test Fixture for their CT3 Texture Analyzer. The Pizza Test Fixture is designed to test the extensibility and tensile breaking strength of pizza crust and other similar food items. The measurements are used as an indicator that corresponds with the firmness and stringiness you experience as the pizza is pulled away from your teeth and palate. Brookfield works with customers to develop the testing methodology required to provide consistent test results.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Analyzer-Ensures-Great-Pizza-Crust-052112.aspx

Tensile testing pizza! It’s not every day you see materials science interact with food like this. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find this interesting.

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The precarious decline in children’s participation in mathematics can only be reversed by tackling a complex mix of factors, including positive and negative attitudes of a student’s parents, peers and teachers, new research from the Univ. of Sydney has found.

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Math Education has been in a steady state of decline for a while now. We need to stop teaching just how to do things and start teaching why. Math is much more than a process; it’s an art.