Friday, October 9, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending Oct 9th, 2020

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It's Global Math Week. For the last few years, lead by @JamesTanton and @GlobalMathProj, teachers around the world have been on a mission to spread joyous mathematics to their students. This year is no different and starting Oct 10 (10/10) we hope that you will bring the idea of Exploding Dots to your kids. Check out the website for all the activities. 
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https://globalmathproject.org/exploding-dots/


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Some of us are teaching face to face, some teaching fully online and some with a combination of the two. If you are doing anything online with your students then you might like this summary of tips and tricks for engaging your students online (or face to face) from @Wheeler_Laura
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https://sites.google.com/ocdsb.ca/wheeler/resources-tools-for-teachers/remote-learning

If you want some insight into the new Ontario math curriculum then you don't want to miss some of the webinars to help support them. 
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https://twitter.com/rossisen/status/1313526712207060993

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Just a reminder that, maybe, understanding data management is more important than calculus. And although there have been some concerns with the group Levitt got together for this for not having enough actual teachers, I still pretty much agree with the sentiment. Thanks to @Joe_Sisco for pointing this one out
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https://www.salon.com/2020/09/26/teaching-data-science-instead-of-calculus-high-schools-math-debate/

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Do you like basketball and dat visualizations? Then this is for you. Thanks to @JoelBezaire for this one. 
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https://twitter.com/kirkgoldsberry/status/1312902491286253568

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This could be a really quick math starter. 
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https://twitter.com/MarkChubb3/status/1312914605916659712

I feel like this trick has been done before with covid data already. Seems to be a popular "how to lie with statistics" method. 
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https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1314563677144657922



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