Math Links for Week Ending Dec 11th, 2020

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Awesome work from @MathTechCoach to get kids ready for the Christmas season. Whether you are teaching face to face or virtual, this one slide Desmos Challenge creator is a fun way to talk about transformations by making a virtual snowflake
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/MathTechCoach/status/1335277681471086592

These #Snowflakes are very cool. If you want to use this with your classes, this one allows you to change colors. https://t.co/vgaZ3dDaLr

This is is just black and white (which is mighty cool) https://t.co/pqQhJ20Lhk pic.twitter.com/vIHHClexht

— Steve Phelps (@MathTechCoach) December 5, 2020

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I have always really loved the data set of deaths and survivors from the Titanic sinking. When dealing with percents, data and inferences it's a great data set and the folks at Desmos have Desmosified it. Try it out and you won't be disappointed. 
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MDM4U
https://blog.desmos.com/articles/desmosify-finding-associations/

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This was such an odd math mistake. There was a foot note on the paper indicated by a super script 4 and she thought that was the power of 4. Sheesh
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https://twitter.com/bobloch/status/1336689958787149831

Hey, did you see that last night's Powerball numbers were DIFFERENT from last weeks? There's a 1 in 280 million-squared chance of that happening - they must be doing something to those poor ping balls - it's fraud I tell ya!
Some very dangerous math mis-application here. https://t.co/a6qAAL4eaG

— Bob Lochel (@bobloch) December 9, 2020

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Using data in sports is getting more popular but it's hard to fight against tradition
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-are-we-still-returning-kicks-in-college-football/