Friday, August 30, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 30th, 2019

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I think any time you can take an abstract concept and make it more visible, then it's a benefit for students. In this case the concept is exponential growth and Desmos has released a new activity to get kids talking about, what looks like, cell division. 

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Some fun with infinite series.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U
https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/1166324490760065024

Opinion Links
Some nice insights from @MarkChubb3 on the differences between some of the categories of the achievement chart here in Ontario.
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https://buildingmathematicians.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/the-types-of-questions-we-ask-which-categories-of-questions-should-we-focus-on/


Video Links
If you have some time to kill then you might try to replicate this
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https://twitter.com/Ayliean/status/1163208862587076608

A nice visualization of scaling a vector. Watch the video then play with the Geogebra file.
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
https://twitter.com/dynamic_math/status/1163797833457291275
This cube dissection is pretty cool. Especially the 3D printed version that @MikeandAllie made (see below) and it reminds me of these two constructions seen below as well.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P, MFM2P
https://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1160801098594054145

https://twitter.com/mikeandallie/status/1160951997731921920



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What fractions do you see?
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/crstn85/status/1163858895623905280
I wish I would have had this advice when I started as a math coach
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https://twitter.com/fawnpnguyen/status/1164926849190731777
Know your numbers
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https://twitter.com/centerofmath/status/1164882313567703040

Friday, August 23, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 22rd, 2019

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Words matter. Here are some suggestions from @MrsForrest dealing with different ways that you can avoid labelling kids as "high" or "low". Thanks to @BerkleyEverett for pointing this out.
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http://showyourthinkingmath.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-low-kids-and-high-kids.html

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Some information about women in mathematics who have have had female students who have become mathematicians and the chains of mentors and students that came of that.
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https://twitter.com/evelynjlamb/status/1160932947031015425

I like this dynamic tessellation from @MathHombre. It reminds me of this one that I did in Desmos and WebSketchpad.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://twitter.com/mathhombre/status/1162392153001213959
Video & Audio Links
Listen to @ProfKeithDevlin talk about how the needs of math students have changed and how we should change the way we teach and what we teach to match.
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https://www.wvxu.org/post/npr-math-guy-keith-devlin-new-math-skills-we-need-future


Working with ratios? Try a ratio table
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://twitter.com/PamHarrisConsu1/status/1161442867895840768
Here is a really interesting construction with a surprising result.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P
https://twitter.com/dynamic_math/status/1162349898160910336
Wow, make sure you check out all of the comments for the different dynamic versions of this.
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https://twitter.com/MathCeyhun/status/1162015492644704258
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A fraction question for you
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/jamestanton/status/1160179112360603649

Have your students test their algebraic skills with this problem connected to the quadratic formula
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U
https://twitter.com/jamestanton/status/1161350279637491716
Some cool cross sections of a cube. And if you want the high res Illustrator version, check out the comments and below is the dynamic "water" version from @shonk
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https://twitter.com/Trianglemancsd/status/1161464188348313600
Here is the dynamic version
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https://flotsam.sellingwaves.com/post/90811439361/if-you-fill-a-cube-with-water-the-shapes-the

Who doesn't like a good Calculus joke. Thanks to Mark Naber for this one
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U




Friday, August 16, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 16th, 2019

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I like these two spacial reasoning puzzles that @mathequalslove has created templates for. Check them out and how she uses them at the links below:
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https://mathequalslove.blogspot.com/2019/07/square-pi-puzzle.html
https://mathequalslove.blogspot.com/2019/07/1-4-5-square-challenge.html


Resource Links
Are you a Websketchpad user? Then you might want to check out some of the new features which includes function notation tools.
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http://www.sineofthetimes.org/catching-up-with-new-web-sketchpad-functionality/


Video Links
Ok so this video starts off with some pretty tame graphs but the last few are just crazy. Either way, have your kids try some of these complex relationships.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMgUB51XZA

Man I need a 3D printer
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https://twitter.com/ThamKhaiMeng/status/1157962976474873861
Here's a nice visual representation for a series.
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U
https://twitter.com/MagicPi2/status/1159849203553767425

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Interesting burger visualization
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://flowingdata.com/2019/08/06/best-burger-ranks/


Friday, August 9, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 9th, 2019

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I really like the idea of starting the year of with students by finding out about their relationship with math. Here is a few possible questions you can ask them.
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https://twitter.com/howie_hua/status/1158860573469106176
Resource Links
A new activity from Desmos is here to help students describe various transformations using informal language. Try it out
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5d4380d4fc08cd0a943e099d/
OK it's back again, that order of operations problem. But this time @StevenStrogatz has done a great job of telling us why there is an issue in the first place. It's the first really clear reference and explanation of the idea of the effects of implicit multiplication. I have been describing this for a couple of years about this problem but this is a great one stop shopping place for a clean concise explanation.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/science/math-equation-pemdas-bodmas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share


Opinion Links
And if you are tired of those order of operations questions then you might be ready for @StevenStrogatz's more interesting essays on mathematics.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/stevenstrogatz/status/1158382357151399941
Video Links
Man, @dynamic_math does a great job of maximizing the potential of Geogebra's 3D engine
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P, MPM2D, MFM2P
https://twitter.com/dynamic_math/status/1159173087969124352
Image Links
Some great comparisons from @MonaChalabi based on this week's mass shootings. Make sure you scroll through all the images.
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U, MAP4C
https://www.instagram.com/p/B01POJ7Fwai/


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Friday, August 2, 2019

Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 2nd, 2019

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I came across this Tweet from @ddmeyer and kind of dismissed it but later on I saw a reply in the thread that said this:"You're gonna say something this year – it might feel innocuous and forgettable – that one of your students will be recounting with his voice cracking TWENTY YEARS LATER." That got me curious and looked at the thread. It was in response to something a principal (who was part of the audience) said: "One principal told me afterwards about the time in 7th grade that he felt belittled by his math teacher and gave up on math.". No doubt, that we have all done this at one time or another. Makes you really think about the power and influence we have and how we can affect the most vulnerable students so easily. Read the whole thread below:
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https://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/1157353070814216192
And along a slightly different line, @CarlOliwitter has started a new hashtag (and slow chat) #MakeMathJust to talk about social justice and equity issues in mathematics. Check out the conversation at the link below
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/makemathjust?src=hashtag_click&f=live

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I probably should have posted this last week but you might still have some time to see some of these webinars from so many good speakers in this year's Building Math Minds Summit. you can see them from the link below and if you are too late, at least you can get something out of the back channel hashtag #BuildMathMinds19
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https://mathematicallyminded.lpages.co/vms-speaker-page-day-1/



Well, I guess it's that time. And by that, I mean time for another one of those "viral" math problems. This time it's another one of those "BEDMAS/PEMDAS" debates dealing with implied multiplication: 8/2(2+2). Now, full disclosure, I would have been one arguing for the answer 16 but now I am firmly in the 1 camp. Of course, by standard order of operation rules, the answer would be 16 but like most things in school, we don't give the whole picture and it turns out that there is a rule about implied multiplication that gives it precedence. You can read a thread I posted about this issue a couple of years ago here where, among other things, you can see an explicit mention of this rule in a calculator manual. That being said, I do like @StevenStrogatz's take on it which is more to talk about the importance of notation than to give the correct answer. Thanks to @JPJacula for pointing this one out.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/math-problem-twitter-bedmas-pemdas_ca_5d420367e4b0acb57fc6b0fd

Some cool ideas answering the question "What math teaching strategies works best?" from @mashupmath. With answers from a bunch of educators (including some Ontario teachers @mathletepearce, @mathgarden, @BrianAspinal and @MarkChubb3). Thanks to @BartVanslack for pointing this out
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https://mashupmath.com/blog/math-teaching-strategies-featuring-jo-boaler

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I thought this graph was pretty telling and probably something every teacher should be aware of. It was in response to @ddmeyer's Tweets from above.
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https://twitter.com/MathPhan/status/1157382411375861761