Saturday, November 10, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Nov. 9th, 2017


I was fortunate enough to help organize this year's OAME Leadership conference in locally here in Windsor. We had three keynotes (@ddmeyer, @ctfosnot, @gfletchy) and a bunch of breakout sessions over a day and a half. If you are interested here is the website (which will eventually have links from many of presentations). The theme was Learning in the 21st Century and we had different perspectives on how that can be done for teachers and students. Here is the feed from the hashtag #OAMELead. There were so many quotable lines (even one by me) that I tried to compile some of them  below. Thanks to all those who filled the "back channel" (just a few from @ddmeyer, @markchubb3, @hkodai, @mrbinfeild).
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bit.ly/OAMELead2018


I brought a pile of games to the OAME Leadership conference to play in the evening and other people started to bring up other puzzles. I have to check these and you should too.
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https://twitter.com/YohakuPuzzle


There is definitely a math question in here. What question will you ask?
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https://twitter.com/mrgerberd/status/1059091555129192449

From @ddmeyer's keynote at #OAMELead. The question is: "What is the area of the shaded region?" Do this with a group of students or teachers to see the surprise. The connection could be calculating slope or rates of change on this one but I say that with no explanation :-)
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1D
https://twitter.com/MarkChubb3/status/1060729482372435968

Check out this fraction activity from just a few decades ago
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/mathsjem/status/1059513603680800769


Need a real box plot? What I can't tell is whether this was taken on the inside and the box plot was drawn on the window or just drawn digitally on the image. I hope its the former
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/AnkerMath/status/1060735881382780928

Some sketchnotes from @RiversoMaria on the OAME Leadership Keynotes and a couple of the breakouts. 
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https://twitter.com/RiversoMaria/status/1060753949437976576

https://twitter.com/RiversoMaria/status/1060942897216925697

https://twitter.com/RiversoMaria/status/1060944113854545921

https://twitter.com/RiversoMaria/status/1060988389783191553

https://twitter.com/RiversoMaria/status/1060986518905479168

https://twitter.com/RiversoMaria/status/1061024621514784768


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Friday, November 2, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Nov. 2nd, 2018

Hey, I am helping out with a Twitter chat on Tuesday night at 9pm EST as part of the #esc11math monthly chat. I am going to try to do a combination Twitter chat and live @Desmos activity on some simple geometry problems. So come out and try a bit of dynamic geometry using @Desmos. How do you participate in a Twitter chat, you ask? To be honest, despite being on Twitter for 9 years, I've never participated. My thinking is that the best way is to follow their hashtag and see the conversation streaming. Then if you want to participate, make sure you include the chat hashtag in your Tweet.
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/esc11math?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash


And yet another Ontario teacher has published a book. This time it's @matthewoldridge with "Teaching Mathematics through Problem Solving". I like the idea that it looks at problem solving by showing that mathematics can be playful and engaging. Check it out while quantities last.
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https://www.amazon.ca/Teaching-Mathematics-through-Problem-Solving-Classrooms/dp/147584333X





This week I saw the culmination of an activity I created with @tomsich83 to have students use TI CBRs and Lego EV3 robots to recreate distance time graphs as part of their grade 9 STEM class. Students create an EV3 robot that will carry the CBR and then have to program it to match various distance time graphs. Get the handout at the link below.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NIa-W5zcW_MihuO8N_0kGYxol3L4gCLsHb6sbCFPPVA/edit

If you have ever used the site Open Middle, you know how good these questions are for going deeper on simple knowledge based questions. Here @AliceKeeler has a Google Slides template to use when working with this particular open middle problem dealing with equivalent fractions.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://alicekeeler.com/2018/10/21/open-middle-equivalent-fractions-activity/

It's always good to find resources on probability that connect to real things that people experience. In this case it's the Monopoly game at McDonalds here in Canada. Specifically, it starts with a piece about some of the fraud associated with the game and ends with a statistician describing the real odds of winning. Thanks to Lorna Baltrusuinas for this one.
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://theconversation.com/mcdonalds-monopoly-a-statistician-explains-the-real-odds-of-winning-106051

In this post @MrOrr_Geek tackles the myth of planning lessons in isolation. I don't think that he is suggesting that teachers don't plan in isolation but instead that some of the best lessons aren't. Collaboration is the key and that collaboration seems to be much easier now than ever before with tools like Twitter, blogs and email. You no longer need to physically be in the same room (or the same city) to collaborate. Check out his evidence (from himself and other Ontario educators) and tips at his post below.
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https://mrorr-isageek.com/how-we-can-avoid-a-major-lesson-planning-misconception/

Another video from @MathIsVisual on visualizing mean. This time with larger numbers. Click on the link, below, for the full play by play on how to use it.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
http://mathisvisual.com/mean-part2/

There are a lot of these videos online (and I love every one). None the less here's another plan landing in a crosswind. Perfect for talking about addition of vectors.
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ePtRpyyks


Here's a costume idea that you can "steal" for next year.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://twitter.com/LukeSelfwalker/status/1056271693419823104

It's not exactly hard data but it could be real
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/bobloch/status/1053026824299646978
Halloween may be over but you might want to put this activity for converting between fractions and decimals in your back pocket for next year.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/MrNiksMathClass/status/1057223395044134914

This kind of dynamic tiling is pretty cool
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1055846712714125312



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Friday, October 26, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Oct. 26th, 2018

Earlier this year I posted about @Desmos releasing some Two Truths and a Lie activities, Now they have released four more. These are very simple activities in that they each have one slide with a sample 2T&L and then the second slide is a Challenge Creator activity designed to look like the first slide. A challenge creator is when students are given constraints to create their own problem (in this case 2T&L) and once done, that activity will then automatically be shared with the rest of the class. So in the end your students have a student created activity to practice that particular skill. In this case they have released one for conics, lines, parabolas and exponents. You can see all of their other challenge creator activities here.
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https://teacher.desmos.com/search?q=two+truths
http://blog.desmos.com/post/179220878917/friday-fave-for-october-19

I have been tinkering with creating an activity for dilations but then came upon this one from @finding_EMU that does a great job of introducing and investigating the idea.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5bc94477122fd04342f8b15d




Some walnut crushing linear relations here. Follow the link for the data set of time and number of crushed walnuts. The guy is pretty good at being consistent with his walnut crushing. Check out the data and analyze the files at the link below.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P, MDM4U, MAP4C
http://found-data.blogspot.com/2018/10/walnut-crushing-world-record.html


A big lottery this week and here's some good advice.
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https://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/1054554545840242689

And more lottery humour
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https://twitter.com/DonFraser9/status/1055921047772360704


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Friday, October 19, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Oct. 19th, 2018

Even though on this blog I feature math links related to grade 6-12 math, I don't mind pointing out good stuff that comes out of the Ontario Math community, even when it isn't in that realm. So this week @AliceAspinall published a children's book promoting mathematics. Everyone Can Learn Math is out now and is the story of Amy's struggle to get a math assignment done. Spoiler alert: she finds that struggle and hard work are all part of being successful in anything, including math.
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https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000072585896/Alice-Aspinall-Everyone-Can-Learn-Math

I have mentioned Delta Math before but they just released 18 new geometric construction activities so if you haven't already got your kids to try Delta Math for practice, this might be the thing that will get you there.
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https://www.deltamath.com/
Wired Math is a site curated by the University of Waterloo to give enrichment activities for grades 7-10. There are challenges, interactive games and more. A good resource to remind us that sometimes as we try to help the struggling learners, we forget about those who aren't struggling. Thanks to @Robin_Grondin for pointing this one out.
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http://wiredmath.ca

Some fun stuff here to have students practice computation and order of operations giving answers like palindromic numbers. A fun way to practice computation. Make sure you click on the link to get to the actual paper with all the examples (from the simple to the complex).
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P, MPM2D, MCR3U, MCF3M
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/598953794878218241

I have mentioned before that the NY Times publishes a graph a week where they ask what you Notice and Wonder. In this post, @AliceKeeler provides a structure for students to use a Google Sheet to help document their notice and wonderings.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MBF3C, MDM4U, MAP4C
https://alicekeeler.com/2018/10/10/create-notice-google-sheets/






I saw this Tweet from @DavidButlerUoA on creating patterns with hexagons sized by the Golden ratio and created this Google Drawing so that you could create your own.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1WTTswRlwSKvxmtRFo3DveMKfSvVn7QY9EY9LPYrxanE/copy



A great quick video connection between the number line and ratio tables from @mathletepearce
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://twitter.com/MathletePearce/status/1052213054841196544


This is not a new concept but the video that @AlexOverwijk posts about falling dominos is followed up with some great shots of student work in the comments to get a sense of the #ThinkingClassroom. Perfect for dealing with exponential functions
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://twitter.com/AlexOverwijk/status/1052339204296925184


A very "mathie" I love math poster
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https://twitter.com/divbyzero/status/1053263753070952448



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Friday, October 12, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Oct. 12th, 2018

At our board, we have been doing a lot of work on getting kids to talk more and re framing teacher questioning. That's why this Tweet from @MrsSasser offers a nice tweak to how you ask your students if they have any questions. You can hear about how this Tweet got over 14 million views on the 10 Minute Teacher podcast from @coolcatteacher. Listen at the link below and check out a lot more math based podcasts at the tab above.
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http://www.coolcatteacher.com/14-million-people-read-classroom-tweet-1-question-asks-students/

A new take on a classic problem from @MrOrr_Geek. Using similar triangles he provides a way for students to become curious about the result and can test that result out physically with a mirror.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MFM2P
https://mrorr-isageek.com/eye-to-eye/



If you are looking for a connection to real life for when you teach combination of functions, then you might want to check out this episode of the podcast The Sum of All Parts about how they figured out what chord was used at the beginning of The Beatles' A Hard Days Night. Spoiler alert, they used Fourier Transforms (combining functions on steroids). And while you are there check out the other episodes from this podcast which is all about numbers. An for more math related podcasts, click on the the tab above.
Curriculum Tags: MHF4U
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sum-of-all-parts/6.0-magical-mystery-chord/9088624

This is a neat site from @MrBartonMaths called Maths Venns. The idea is that students are given a prompt and some criteria to fill in on a Venn Diagram. There are topics from number sense to functions to data management. You could probably find something for just about any grade level. I could see using this as a prompt on a VNPS. Take a look.
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https://mathsvenns.com/

A new video to visuals calculating the mean from Math is Visual. Check out all the info at the link below.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
http://mathisvisual.com/mean/


A logic puzzle from @DonFraser9 connected to the NFL
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https://twitter.com/DonFraser9/status/1049363131007295488



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Friday, October 5, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Oct 5th, 2018

Hey kids Global Math Week is happening starting Wednesday (10/10/18). So many ways you can participate. But at the very least, head on over to www.explodingdots.org and get your kids to sign up to do some exploding dot problems. And if you get this soon enough you can see @JoBoalar's live talk on Joyous Math Facts at 1:25 PM PST on Oct 6th to kick of the Global Math Symposium or just watch the promo video from @JamesTanton to get the gist.
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https://www.globalmathproject.org/


 
A new 3Act Task from @mathletepearce with a layout that would let you do this in classes from k-9 (depending on the extensions you might use (volume, proportional reasoning etc).
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://tapintoteenminds.com/3act-math/girl-guide-cookies/

In this latest post from @mathgarden I love that he references one of my favourite courses that I have ever taught. It was a grade 12 course that we had in Ontario called Geometry and Discrete math. I used to call it the "proof" course. It was meant for students going to university and taking things like engineering, physics and math. However, many kids didn't like it because it was hard and it was eventually dropped as a requirement by universities (even though they asked for it to be created). None the less, that is the topic here, that math kids need to experience struggle. The trick is finding the perfect amount for each student.
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https://medium.com/@sunilsingh_42118/the-road-to-learning-mathematics-goes-through-struggle-not-efficiency-861ddd11bed2

And more info on struggle, that is, the connection between struggle and high achievement from @JoBoaler and the YouCubed crew: " The people that achieved the most, were always pushing at the edge of their understanding"
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https://www.youcubed.org/resources/the-importance-of-struggle/

After quite a hiatus, the @WSHSmath department has released a new video. And although we no longer include integration in our Ontario Calculus course, this is still pretty good.
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPGwFhVUm8

Even though it doesn't have to come from @NeilTyson, most of us teachers know this to be true. It's not the stuff that's important but the act of learning that is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utedyJ7QRBs

Honestly, being better at understanding statistics would be better for us all. Here @theboysmithy gives us a nice TEDx talk on why. Thanks to @KMarkPet for this one.
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https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_smith_why_we_re_so_bad_at_statistics


If you or your students are rocking an iPhone, then you might want to upgrade to iOS 12 so that you can use the new Augmented Reality Measurement app
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https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/1047277863177601030

I nice reminder from @MarkChubb3 (via @TraceyZager) of the great definition of procedural fluency from the @NCTM
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https://twitter.com/MarkChubb3/status/1046940496864710656



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Friday, September 28, 2018

Math Links for Week Ending Sept. 28th, 2018

Not everyone is a Keynote user. Even though I use a Mac, I have never used it either, but the more I see the more intrigued I get. So that being said, if you are at all interested in possibly seeing how Keynote might help you as a math teacher, then check out this iBook from @mathycathy where she explores some of the things you can do for math with Keynote and why making things visual is a good thing. Get more info and download the iBook at the link below and then you can start using the hashtags #KeynoteForMath and #EveryoneCanCreate.
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http://www.mathycathy.com/blog/2018/08/too-mathy-too-techy/

One of the things I like about the math community on the Internet is we are all into remixing each other's stuff. Last week I posted this @desmos activity where kids could practice graphing points and relatively quickly @SGiekAHS made some quick additions and changes and just like that, it's better.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5ba7a6f38dbdac0d0a45d5cb

Also from @SGiekAHS is this card sort on exponent rules. I like card sorts because they are a quick way for kids to practice in a non threatening way. And so when teachers share these it's great because they are time consuming to make.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jvje0qtw52w5x21/Puzzle.pdf?dl=0



It's always fun to find new hashtags, what a neat idea: #sidewalkmath. Get into it. Thanks to @_b_p for starting this.
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/sidewalkmath?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

Who doesn't like a good Star Wars based pictograph.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1043666255499137024



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