Math Links for Week Ending Mar. 22nd, 2019

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It's always good to hear that the folks at @ONmathies continue to refine and update their apps. The latest is a fresh version of the pattern block app. So now, not only do you have an infinite amount of pattern blocks to use but you have more than the standard blocks (with more to come) but you can now save your work and upload it later. Here is the saved file from this image if you want to try out uploading into your own Patter Block app.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://mathies.ca/learningTools.php#Pp0

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I have long been an advocate of coupling proving trig identities algebraically with verifying them graphically. Now @LukeSelfWalker has had the same idea and taken it to the next level with @Desmos Activity Builder. Check it out.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://twitter.com/LukeSelfwalker/status/1107974858745491456

Using the Desmos table feature as a structure in proving trig identities. Then students see graphs of all of their steps as a way to check to their work. There is a lot of opportunity here to use snapshots in showcasing different paths for a proof. https://t.co/xEGe76HCNX pic.twitter.com/sLaNYrTyHl

— Luke Walsh (@LukeSelfwalker) March 19, 2019

Do you want to have your students practice their fundamental skills in an engaging way? Then you might want to use @GFletchy's subitizing multiplication cards. This is an update to his original cardset and includes over 100 cards including some to focus on students moving away from counting.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MAT1L, MAT2L
https://gfletchy.com/2019/03/17/multiplication-subitizing-cards/

Here's a neat idea, @MrNiksMathClass has developed what he calls Elastic Band Puzzles where the purpose is to find the sets of values that have the same characteristic. In these three examples it's the zero principal, fractions adding to 1 and factorable trinomials.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, MPM1D, MFM1P, MPM2D, MFM2P
https://twitter.com/MrNiksMathClass/status/1106497179127025664

These are examples of my "Three Elastic Bands Puzzles" (simple to make, use with any concept, packed with thinking). Pick a theme and create 3 groupings. Then, challenge your kids to identify the groups by drawing non-overlapping elastic bands around each. #tvdsbmath #iteachmath pic.twitter.com/ZdBqLunna7

— Math with P. Nik (@MrNiksMathClass) March 15, 2019

This data originally came out in 2014 but has recently been updated with 75 new artists. It shows the hip hop artists who have the highest number of words used in their first 35000 lyrics. The data is interactive on the original post and I have pulled out the raw data so that your students can actually use it for some single variable analysis.
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U, MBF3C
https://found-data.blogspot.com/2019/03/hip-hop-vocabulary.html

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Here's a nice video display of some data about the proportion of highest paid artists who are female from @MonaChalabi. It's a simple representation but the animation makes it look so elegant.
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://www.instagram.com/p/BugsC0Jlu9Z/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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Art never seemed like a career that could give me financial security (and good god I want financial security). The fact is, women's art is just valued less than men's art. At best, 7 of the 100 highest paid artists in the world have been women, at worst, just 1. Biiiiiig thank you to @tate and @womeninthearts for commissioning me to do this! Source: Magnus.net (2007-2017)

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Some interesting looking patterns.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/solvemymaths/status/1106868124090011648

1 + 2 = 3

4 + 5 + 6 = 7 + 8

9 + 10 + 11 + 12 = 13 + 14 + 15

16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 = 21 + 22 + 23 + 24

n²+(n² +1)+...+(n²+n)=(n²+n+1)+...+(n²+2n) pic.twitter.com/GMbeh5BpPO

— Ed Southall (@solvemymaths) March 16, 2019

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I love this visualization from @MonaChalabi where she looks at the preferred age of date from dating site data. It's pretty interesting how this is split by gender.
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPK8-hHFnx/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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Preparing my slides for a talk tonight @nytimes about why I don’t date older men. See second photo 🤮. Source: Data from OKCupid's users, 2014 (tens of millions of preferences were analysed by the site's founder Christian Rudder. I also copied his data visualisation technique here because it works so well). I'm really sorry that there isn't good data on same-sex attraction - will keep hunting!

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Math Links for Week Ending Mar. 15, 2019

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I have always been a fan of MC Escher so this dynamic Escheresque tiling by @GHSMaths is super awesome. I have created my own dynamic sketch where you could make your own tessellation here but this is just way more attractive. Make sure you click on the link in the Tweet so you can get the original Desmos sketch.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://twitter.com/GHSMaths/status/1104522817989763072

Tiling turtles 🐢https://t.co/QDnfjLKlY1#mathart (cc @Trianglemancsd) pic.twitter.com/5Ct753zyoH

— Martin Holtham (@GHSMaths) March 9, 2019

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Here is a nice little dynamic sketch that demonstrates this interesting geometric property. Take a quadrilateral and create similar quadrilaterals on two adjacent sides and keep doing that and, as it turns out, those two lines of quadrilaterals will always spiral towards each other. So @dpscher has made a dynamic sketch to show it works for all quadrilaterals. Check it out at the link below.
Curriculum tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
http://www.sineofthetimes.org/a-double-spiral-from-david-henderson/




If you like @SteveWyborney's Splat or Estimation resources then you will like this newly released content for 20 days of Number Sense and Rich Math Talk. In it he has 20 new activities and each could be used in a grade k all the way to grade 12 class (depending on how you use it. It's all new content so there is no need to worry about overlap if you are already using his stuff. And if you are not, you should be.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.stevewyborney.com/?p=1891

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Yup, there's a new record for the number of digits of Pi that we know.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-after-31-trillion-digits-were-still-no-closer-to-the-end-of-pi/











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It's time for @ViHartViHart's 9th annual Pi Day video and even she (purposely) makes a mistake it's just fun to hear her say "...that words are just sounds made out of our vibrating meat flaps...".
Curriculum Tags: All
http://vihart.com/pi-day-2019-6-digits-of-pi-%F0%9F%8D%B0/

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Some great work with area here from @JStevens009 in this new Would you Rather?
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
http://www.wouldyourathermath.com/birthday-cake/

Math Links for Week Ending Mar. 8th, 2019

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So this popped up in my feed a couple of time and I love the idea but not so much the reaction. The idea is that you have your student track their phone notifications for 30 min (or a whole period). The end result is basically that phones are a distraction. Up until that point, I am with most people. However, much of the response (when you look at the Tweets) amounts to "see, that's why phones shouldn't be allowed in class". I think differently. I think that these devices that our students bring to class everyday are among the most powerful learning tools they can have (for one, they have the sum total of all human knowledge at their literal finger tips) and we should be exploiting them. But this experiment shows that students (and most humans) are distracted by them.

This is where I think we have to come in. We (all teachers in all subject areas) should take it upon ourselves to help students navigate those distractions and show them proper uses of these devices. If we want them to become productive members of society, part of what they have to learn is how not to be distracted by all those notifications. And who better to teach them that is us while we have them sitting with us for 5 hours a day? So we have to show them how to turn their notifications off, how to have their phones within reach without actually reaching for them and show them when it's appropriate to use them. If students don't get to practice those skills in a low stakes environment, how can we expect them to master them when it counts (ie when they are actually at a job).
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/loudlearning/status/1102211998522241024

Are cell phones a distraction in class? A math teacher asked her class to tally every text & notification.THIS is what the board looked like after 30 minutes.
☑️23 students
☑️58 texts
☑️182 social media notifications
☑️28 other notifications
That's 268 disruptions in 1/2 an hour! pic.twitter.com/uglyx6o3XD

— тσм ℓσυ∂ (@loudlearning) March 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/courosa/status/1103528663243476992

"A teacher had her students turn their phone volume up and create a tally of the notifications they received in a single class period." #edchat #digcit pic.twitter.com/4W5Hy4t1EW

— Dr. Alec Couros (@courosa) March 7, 2019

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Here is a great little activity from @MrSchwen. It's a single Desmos activity slide where students are given two points on a grid and asked to come up with the equation of the line between them. It then checks their answer and if it's not correct it will show them a custom solution based on their mistake. Then the can try again with a randomly generated set of new points. Perfect for practicing this skill.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM2P
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5c754e10fbfa1e570a1389fe

A couple of new features in Desmos. One is a zoom fit button for tables. With the new statistics functions came this feature and now it's extended to tables. Just create your table and then click the little magnifying glass with a plus sign and the axes will scale to maximize the view of the data. The next thing is that you can now copy whole slides from one activity to another within Activity Builder. Simply get into edit mode on your two activities (the one you want to copy from and the one you want to copy to), select the slide you want to copy and use ctrl-c (command-C on a Mac) and then go to your new activity and use ctrl-v (command-V on a Mac) to paste it there.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/Desmos/status/1102948328403230720

Okay – here's how you copy screens between activities! pic.twitter.com/N6cLt5bIf8

— Desmos.com (@Desmos) March 5, 2019

Be sure to read this whole thread (click into the actual Tweet link) to show how minor changes to interpretations can lead to wildly differing conclusions. Perfect for any senior statistics class
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/TysonWepprich/status/1101518183322677248

This new @PNASNews paper estimates 100+ year monarch butterfly and milkweed abundance, which is cool but…1/https://t.co/SApYTfuri5 pic.twitter.com/6fIuZwXpa6

— Tyson Wepprich (@TysonWepprich) March 1, 2019

Have kids sort into groups by matching up radicals and mixed radicals
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/pejorgens/status/1103076011464261633

d125 #teach180 Human sort at the door today. Instead of a playing card each student received a radical card. They needed to find their group of 3 others with an equivalent radical. Discussion about my group of 5 dilemma continued after school. https://t.co/askdU9uxyK #iteachmath pic.twitter.com/DXYbcQE7oA

— Paul Jorgens (@pejorgens) March 5, 2019

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Hey it's Pi Day coming up this week and this year @standupmaths is physically creating a partial infinite series with a balance to estimate the value of Pi. For the rest of my Pi Day resources, you can click here.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26_O2B8h8k

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What a great and fun way to create fraction rulers. So easy.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/geoffwake1/status/1103340618250678274

This page......
"let's make a fraction ruler" from a Japanese text book (in both English and Japanese). From Grade 3 (Year 4).
Great starting point for lesson with many year groups? pic.twitter.com/cq9sBw53Jk

— Geoff Wake 🇪🇺 (@geoffwake1) March 6, 2019

Here's a great Prime Climb/Which One Doesn't Belong mashup
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/nomad_penguin/status/1101562266510479360

Which one doesn’t belong? (With thanks to @Simon_Gregg for the idea!) #wodb #PrimeClimb pic.twitter.com/58hgpfflpr

— Amie Albrecht (@nomad_penguin) March 1, 2019

Nicely done
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/Trianglemancsd/status/1103133737531949056

This came out well. pic.twitter.com/hlkrlYQa2j

— Christopher Danielson (@Trianglemancsd) March 6, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Mar. 1st, 2019

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Say it loud and say it proud
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6hZbuQCQBc

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I've been sitting on this post for a while. In my quest to find all kinds of data sets that students can use for analysis, it's always fun to find one that is interesting in some way. This one isn't a particularly interesting data set (its a very linear set of data) but it's origins are fairly interesting. I got it from a 3Act Task that @Gfletchy did. I probably would do the 3Act Task first then have kids analyze the data. I think the best questions you could ask is to check whether she keeps the same skipping rate throughout the whole 30s of skipping. Check out all the data and the original video at the link below
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P, MDM4U, MAP4U
http://found-data.blogspot.com/2019/02/skipping-world-record.html

I'm a big fan of cardsorts for kids to practice skills. In this one @TypeAMathLand has created a Difference of Squares, Perfect Square Trinomial, or Neither Sort. Clearly this is a labour intensive creation to come up with the equations but she has done all the work fo you so just print it out, cut it up and you're ready. Thanks to @mathequalslove for pointing this out.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MBF3C
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rz5P9Xb4ynxIxMqAV7zGyL3bcdf3Uq9nNhjergbg82o/edit

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This is such a nice visualization from @anniek_p on the connection between the unit circle and the sine curve.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://twitter.com/anniek_p/status/1098699366410407936

I spent way too long making this, but at least 4 kids "ooh-ed" when the sine wave appeared, so...win? #mtbos #iteachmath pic.twitter.com/ljwv7zh8Tl

— Annie Perkins (@anniek_p) February 21, 2019

Here is a great 5 minute Ignite talk from @MathMinds where she talks about the importance of thinking of our lessons more like a mathematical story. Thanks to @MFAnnie for pointing this one out.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://youtu.be/LjkJBHdUXRM

Some conservation of momentum calculations from @standupmaths in doing this classic physics problem. Perfect for any solving simple equations curriculum.
Curriculum Tags: Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoYm8lcJQ0o

Some fun Futurama based math with exponents, primes and binary numbers from @SLSingh on @numberphile.
Curriculum Tags: Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwkX35bcdw

Thanks to @Gelada I now know that sometimes you can't tile the plane with some shapes but you can partially tile the plane and that can be described by a Heesch number. And as an added bonus I would check out his geometry based colouring books (with @alexbelos)
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aFcgATW9Mw

And as another added bonus from @Gelada, check out the cool way these shapes unpack.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/Gelada/status/1087175478966960128

The moment you have been waiting for...unpacking from the #curvahedrajourney cc @curvahedra @MoMath1 #mathart pic.twitter.com/UOSbTeAocf

— Edmund Harriss (@Gelada) January 21, 2019

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I see parabolas and circles, what other math do you see? Check out the thread to get the actual Geogebra sketch.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MCR3U
https://twitter.com/panlepan/status/1100782212973248512

How juggling works. @geogebra pic.twitter.com/gNptdkFb3a

— Vincent Pantal🍩ni (@panlepan) February 27, 2019

Yeah, that's definitely fun
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/SumDumThum/status/1099805542669783042

https://t.co/TCbwjITNKh pic.twitter.com/lXu6HkH2h5

— Andrew Osborne (@SumDumThum) February 24, 2019

Yup, that'll do it
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://xkcd.com/2118/

Here's a great way to visualize those 3D trig problems. Thanks to @mathequalslove for pointing this out.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MCF3M, MAP4C
https://twitter.com/kanchan24saxena/status/976332651463303171

Couldn’t have used my treasure in a better way. Modelling 3D Trig questions for my ext 1 students😀 pic.twitter.com/Uz6cQetPx7

— Kanchan Saxena (@kanchan24saxena) March 21, 2018

I particularly like the little touch of the "frowney" Amazon boxes in this @MonaChalabi infographic
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MDM4U
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHH5NFnhlw/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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Last year, Amazon doubled its profits to $11.2 billion and paid $0 in federal taxes. In fact, the company somehow got a *rebate* of $129 million. It's ludicrous to think how government could have used that money for healthcare and education. Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analysis of SEC filings, 2019

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Math Links for Week Ending Feb. 22nd, 2019

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Here is a great dynamic bar graph that shows how the value of the largest companies of the world has changed since the year 2000. What do you think will come out on top by the end of 2018. But after seeing this video lead me to this site called Interbrand which is where they got the data. It has has all kinds of interactive graphs dealing with the popularity of brands. Thanks to @Robin_Grondin for pointing this one out.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MDM4U, MBF3C
https://www.interbrand.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQovQUga0VE

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It seems that I am getting caught up on @mathequalslove's blog this week. You can always count on her to create activities that take the standard worksheet and turns it on its head to make things more engaging for students. In this case it's a puzzle worksheet for trig identities.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://mathequalslove.blogspot.com/2019/02/trig-identity-group-challenge-reciting.html


This posts tackles the idea of dividing polynomials using long division or synthetic division but really it's about her activity to use box division using cards. She uses them in combination with her clear pockets to help students with this mechanical mathematical method.
Curriculum Tags: MHF4U
https://mathequalslove.blogspot.com/2019/02/dividing-polynomials-puzzle-using-box.html


In calculus we are always trying to conceptually convey what is happening when we are determining the derivative and finding the slope of the tangent. The main concept is that the slope of this curve is being measured using a straight line. That can be confusing to some students. To help that @DavidBulterUofA and @aknauft have built this Desmos sketch that "magnifies" any part to show that if you zoom in enough, any curve can be approximated as a straight line.
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
https://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/maths-learning/2019/02/11/zooming-in-to-see-the-slope/

In the latest @Numberphile podcast episode, you can hear the interview with @SimonSingh and among other things, he talks about his new website that gives weekly challenge problems to math students. Students and teachers can create accounts on the site so they can "Be challenged, get curious, do maths. Stretch your brain every week."
Curriculum Tags: All
https://parallel.org.uk/




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There are certainly people that think that it's important for students to learn algorithms. In my opinion there is no problem with learning algorithms but it shouldn't be the first thing that students learn about a topic and it certainly should be the goal of the learning. In this post @MBurnsMath shows (through student conversations) that algorithms are certainly not enough
Curriculum Tags: All
http://www.marilynburnsmathblog.com/algorithms-are-not-enough/

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Any data management or statistics teacher needs to look at all types of data representations. Heat maps are a neat way to look at data on a gradient and if you can also connect that to lat/long data to map that out. Here's how to do it with CODAP
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2or9FkPRk

Here's a great interview with @JohnCUrshel a former NFL lineman turned MIT Ph.D math student.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Whats-it-like-to-be-the-biggest-maths-geek-to-ever-play-in-the-NFL-the-big-questions







A new book from @Standupmaths is about errors in engineering and other areas and what effects those errors were. Here's a brief interview with him about the book.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07113q3



The boys @MakeMathMoments have been busy with their new podcast. They have been putting out quality episodes one a week since before the new year. There are your standard interview type episodes with people like @JamesTanton, @mathforlove and @JoBoaler but the ones that I like the most are the Mentoring Moments episodes where they talk to a teacher from somewhere in North America and try to help them with their particular teaching issue.
Curriculum Tags: All
http://makemathmoments.com/podcast/

We've been busy at the @OAMEtalks podcast with a new episode from @FawnPNguyen and a couple of episodes of previews of featured speakers for OAME 2019 ( @LLB_315, @jboninducharme, @gfletchy, @eluberoff, @carloliwitter, @NatBanting, @stoodle & @samjshah2). We have one more OAME 2019 preview episode planned to come out on Monday (with @davidcampbell, @TracyZager & @JenniferWilson) and our last regular podcast of the season coming out March 1st with @MarkChubb.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/oame-talks


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Use your math skills to solve these mathematical movie puzzles
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U, MCV4U
https://twitter.com/MrOrr_geek/status/1096378665456275457

Can you figure our the names of these movies? Let's see what you've got! pic.twitter.com/XA14AgOvgZ

— Jon Orr (@MrOrr_geek) February 15, 2019

More mathart from @sumdumthum
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/SumDumThum/status/985602602086760448

recursive circle thing#matharthttps://t.co/5TVsRgzfF6 pic.twitter.com/jisXbkdSZN

— Andrew Osborne (@SumDumThum) April 15, 2018

This is really a standard problem but the tweak of making it physical will help students engage more into the work.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MFM2P
https://twitter.com/MrOrr_geek/status/1097979314077908992

Teach Through TASK! Some groups determined rope length and some groups found floor length! Some used similar triangle and some used the primary ratios. What tasks are you teaching through this week? #iTeachmath pic.twitter.com/9jlnVBKATe

— Jon Orr (@MrOrr_geek) February 19, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Feb 15th, 2019

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If you have never used Desmos Polygraph before then you are missing out. Kids play "Guess Who?" with mathematical images. You can see so many on the Activity Builder Website. That being said, this is just a great tool for any subject. To that end, I made a tutorial on how you can create versions for other subject areas. So you might want to send this out to your non math teacher friends. There is a full video on how to make them and several examples created from different subject areas.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://wecdsbit.blogspot.com/2019/02/creating-digital-guess-who-game.html

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One of the things we are supposed to do in Ontario is develop the formula for the area of a circle. And my favourite method is to split a circle into triangular wedges and create a "parallelogram" from the pieces. In this activity @rnhung does just that (including a neat slide where he does the derivation step by step).
Curriculum Tags: Gr8
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5a7f66d94bddb3422ca9e626

I really love this perimeter of an irregular shape problem shared by @dpscher as it starts out with hints that it's not solvable but, in fact, can be solved. I like the fact that you can confirm the answer with some concrete manipulation that could involve algebra or just plain strategic trial and error.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P

http://www.sineofthetimes.org/the-perimeter-problem/

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In his quest to help bring the joy back to mathematics @mathgarden posts his 100th article on Medium looking at various references to going beyond memorization and make math and play synonymous. It was nice to get a shout out as well for a term that I cannot claim as my own but often use in the context of how I want kids to interact with math: "tinker" and @BerkleyEverett's "dabble".
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https://medium.com/@sunilsingh_42118/dreaming-to-disrupt-mathematics-is-beginning-its-journey-back-home-de1761207985



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A new @numberphile video featuring @SimonSingh talking about two fun examples of maths (primes and binary) showing up in the TV show Futurama
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwkX35bcdw

Another new @standupmaths video where he talks about how rounding issues can cause big problems.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X_Hqb7qkW4

Five videos from @JamesTanton the king of joyous math all for the sake of the National Math Festival.
Curriculum Tags: All
Finger Multiplication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSGW-BFfP8

90 Degree Rotations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6deBCaMso_A

Math Salute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLO9wA56Y8s

Weird Stretch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQH4bWP923Y

Rope Folding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB_sS7LUlwU

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I love this post from @MonaChilabi showing examples all types of graphs, can you name them all?
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MDM4U
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1Fbbbn3GL/

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Can you name all of these chart types? I get to take over @designmuseum for the next two days so I've been thinking a lot about information design. I feel like the visual world around me has a lot of crap in it that either misinforms people or confuses them. I often use classic chart types as my base and then I illustrate the numbers by hand. I hope that when you look at my charts, you learn something but you also remember that flawed, biased humans are responsible for information design. Leave your quiz scores below (or not, maybe this is a bad idea?!)

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Math Links for Week Ending Feb 8th, 2019

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If you haven't heard yet, Desmos has updated their graphing calculator and now it includes tools for analysis and visualizations of single variable statistics. In terms of visualizations, they've added dot plots, box plots and histograms. They also have probability and binomial distributions. They a work within the confines of the graphing calculator and are also available in Activity Builder. Check out some of the features at my post below and check out @boblock's how to video.
Curriculum Tags: Gr8, MDM4U, MAP4C
https://found-data.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-desmos-statistics-package.html

The second thing from Desmos is that they are currently accepting applications for the 4th cohort of their Desmos Fellows. I was a member of last year's 3rd cohort and it's been a pretty cool year seeing behind the curtain as to how things run. But really the best part is all the new colleagues I gained both from face to face meetings a Desmos HQ but online in their company Slack channel. And it was cool to have a tiny part in testing out some of the new stats features before they went live. So check out their post and consider applying.
https://blog.desmos.com/articles/friday-fave-for-february-8/

Resource Links
Are you looking for some discussion on diagnostic assessment in the intermediate years in math, then you might consider this series of webinars put on by @goslinK123. The first one is done and there is a recording of it but there are more to come. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TjHnOjJARHTPZcGLEg71EEknXoG9LWnVhjHNW9IhwdM/edit






It looks like @MaryBourassa is dusting off the old Day by Day set of blog posts. In the past she's done it for MFM2P and MPM2D and now she's starting one for MPM1D. So if you are into teaching grade 9 academic you may want to follow her posts over the course of the semester. Here's the first one. 
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D
https://marybourassa.blogspot.com/2019/02/grade-9-academic-mpm1d-day-1.html




A few months ago @PaiMath posted a nice long post about taking notes in a thinking classroom. This week, he's following up with part 2 of that post. I know that the note taking aspect is one of the things I struggle with understanding the most so I appreciate this kind of long form treatment.
Curriculum Tags: All
http://intersectpai.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-thinking-classroom-note-taking-part.html

Here's a fun little Desmos Challenge Creator by @rilesblue dealing with equivalent ratios. It's pretty simple as it is just the challenge creator but here students choose their rivalry (eg Apple vs Android), create a fictitious comparison and then create some equivalent ratios. This becomes the challenge that the rest of the students in the class have to do. These Challenge Creators are an excellent way to get kids engaged in otherwise boring practice since they are creating the actual questions. 
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P, MAT1L, MAT2L
https://jennvadnais.com/2019/02/09/equivalent-ratios-challenge-creator/

Article Links
It turns out that bees can do addition and subtraction and even understand the concept of zero. Thanks to @kmarkpet for pointing out this one. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/even-with-their-tiny-brains-bees-can-do-additions-and-subtractions/
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/honey-bees-can-understand-the-advanced-mathematical-concept-of-zero/

Video/Audio Links
Check out @MrOrr_Geek on Instagram. He's doing a bit of a video diary where he shows you 30 minutes of his classroom one minute at a time for 30 days. Check it out. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.instagram.com/mrorr_geek/?hl=en

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‪Starting #30Days30min on Monday. My aim is to share 1 min of my teaching day for 30 days in a row. My goal is to show and reflect on how challenging, rewarding, and awesome it is to teach math day to day. Wanna come along? #realclassroom #iteachmath #mtbos‬

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I found these videos this week on interpretive dance representations of statistical concepts. 
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGfwj4GrUlA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjaBh12C6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fGu8hvdZ6s&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1DynUzjq0

Image Links
Do you have any skiers in your class? Then they may be interested in this data showing how Lyndsay Vonn is clearly a dominating force.
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lindsey-vonn-is-the-greatest-american-skier-and-its-not-even-close/