Math Links for Week Ending Sept 25th, 2020

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@ddmeyer did a short online session and in it he showed some ways to Desmosify some standard math questions. Check out this slow reveal of the mystery shape. Then you can download the actual activity with all the examples and watch the video of the webinar for the rest of the surprises. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/1308490971298971648
https://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/1308491076282413056

💻 Desmos Activity 💻https://t.co/aA4A5ykaOk

🗞️ Article 🗞️https://t.co/uOP71fub4G https://t.co/jhdxSaF9OK

🎥 Video Demo 🎥https://t.co/jhdxSaF9OK

— Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer) September 22, 2020

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Students creating their own math contest. That's pretty cool. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/3blue1brown/status/1308090864711860225

A group of middle and high school students has made an online math competition for students in 8th grade and below, roughly at the level of AMC8-AMC10.https://t.co/udBUoUilds

I feel like we should encourage more students to create math contests, not just participate in them.

— Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) September 21, 2020

Need and activity to deal with permutations and combinations? @Christophe_Sew has your back

Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/Christophe_Sew/status/1308361756465664005

Permutations and Combinations [@desmos collection]

3 lessons into the unit, more to come.🏗️

✅ unlimited examples
✅ self-checking@davidpetro314 @AlgebraDesmos #iteachmath #ImproveMyAB #mtbos #MatchMyCLhttps://t.co/4ZGITT3snY pic.twitter.com/654yXA19ky

— Mr. S (@Christophe_Sew) September 22, 2020

 Video Links

What a cool connection to the random walk
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/mathillustrated/status/731134770093129728

Oh the Places You'll Go! Random Walk on Wall Street @profkeithdevlin @JohnAllenPaulos @timchartier @stevenstrogatz pic.twitter.com/kl87elSQuA

— Ralph Pantozzi (@mathillustrated) May 13, 2016

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I am a big fan of tessellations and so I love this prompt from @MarkChubb3
Curriculum Tags: Gr7
https://twitter.com/MarkChubb3/status/1309217521426366464

Can you spot the “core” of this visual pattern?

Convince me this IS or ISN’T a good way to discuss pattern cores. pic.twitter.com/90Ybs7ObfI

— Mark Chubb (@MarkChubb3) September 24, 2020