Math links for the Week Ending Feb 8th, 2013

The first of two really good 3Acts Tasks from Dan Meyer. The first one is perfect for intersection of lines. Click here for the first act video. Click on this link for the full task
http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/ditchdiggers/
Curriculum Tags:MFM2P, MPM2D


In the 2nd 3Acts Task, Dan uses bubble wrap to generated quadratic data. Below is the first video. Click here to see the entire task.
http://threeacts.mrmeyer.com/bubblewrap/
Curriculum Tags:MFM2P, MPM2D


Act 1 — Bubble Wrap from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

This site gives a visual view of the real time traffic on Twitter. A really nice non standard representation of data

http://tweetping.net/

Curriculum Tags: Grade7, Grade8, MDM4U

We don't know what the largest prime number is but recently we discovered a new largest known prime. It has over 17 million digitshttp://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/06/largest-prime-number-yet-discovered/

Curriculum Tags: Grade 7, Grade 8

Indexed has always been a quirky site. With its venn diagrams and emotional graphs. Here's one that could be related to quadratic relations.
http://thisisindexed.com/2013/02/how-to-say-everything-without-a-word/
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MFM2P