Math Links for Week Ending Dec. 2nd, 2016

I love it when Ontario Math Teachers get out there and spread the word. Even better if it is a TEDx talk. In this talk @MatthewOldridge starts by talking about the Pythagorean shortcut and continues to talk about the other ways math can be all about wonder. Awesome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAH2PMj0yA

I have been on Twitter for 7 years now and one of the things but it has never really been a place where I have had deep discussions about math. Something about the stream of posts or 140 character limit maybe. But now, thanks to @dlants, there is a place to have longer deep discussions. Do it on the Math Teachers Discourse site. Check it out and join the conversation. Thanks to @ddmeyer for this one.
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http://www.mathteachers-discourse.com/ 

I think this has been available for a while but on Wolfram Alpha, there is a whole section on practicing math problems. The free version just lets you solve many math problems (from addition to calculus) but if you pay, you can generate worksheets and get full solutions. Thanks to @MaryBourassa and @viemath for pointing this out.
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https://www.wolframalpha.com/problem-generator/

Last week I posted a question on Twitter about solving equations in a more friendly way and it got a lot of traction. One of the comments from @MrsHessClass pointed out that @MashUpMath posed these types of questions regularly. Check them out at the link below
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P, MFM2P
http://mashupmath.com/weekly-math-challenges/

Hey there is a new Prime number. Thanks to @Esping_Math for this one
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http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/why-kids-should-use-their-fingers-in-math-class/478053/

He has already done a comedy routine about spreadsheets. So why not a comedy routine about equations (complex ones at that).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcr9-93wXng

I just saw the movie Dr. Strange and there are some trippy scenes. So if you want to show your kids some demonstrations of translations, rotations, dilatations, reflections and stretches.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdM7b1Lm04

A great question to have some fun with area, geometry and fractions from @AllenMath
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/AllenMath/status/803265354906685440

Happy Monday! What fraction of the decagon is shaded? #mathchat #geometry #measurement pic.twitter.com/As6BAFkogb

— Dan Allen (@AllenMath) November 28, 2016

I have never been a fan of these over sized Christmas lights but @MrOrr_Geek has found that you can inspire some talk of proportions with them.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://twitter.com/MrOrr_geek/status/802603714678845440

Let the proportion problems begin! pic.twitter.com/z2xbksjjHh

— Jon Orr (@MrOrr_geek) November 26, 2016

Here is a nice image that can get kids about talking about graphing on a cartesian plane in the context of dog breeds.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/best-in-show-whats-the-top-data-dog