Friday, March 12, 2021

Math Links for Week Ending Mar. 12th, 2021

Featured Links

It seems that @TimBrzezinski has really been on the @Openmiddle train lately. Here are two more to add. One on the distributive law and the other on order of operations.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MPM1D, MFM1P
https://www.geogebra.org/m/suwcgzyd
https://www.geogebra.org/m/amukryav

Resource Links

Many students look at our normal everyday math problems as impossible.  Most are not, but you might want to give them some insight into some real impossible problems of geometry, topology and other topics. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-math-gets-impossibly-hard-20200914/



It's Pi Day on Sunday. Here are all of my PiDay resources. I am trying to suggest that The Rolling Stones are secret Pi lovers. Do you see it?
Curriculum Tags: All


Opinion Links

Getting kids talking is the focus of the book Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions. It's a great book with a lot of great ideas. Extending some of those ideas is @GeoffKrall in this post. Check it out for more thoughts on expanding the conversation in your math class. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://emergentmath.com/2021/03/11/the-next-steps-in-classroom-conversation-orchestration/

Video Links

I think there is some great stuff on this YouTube channel (especially if you love Legos) but in this video they make a machine that creates a gearing ratio of 1 Googol:1. Before you get to it in the video, have your students figure out how long it will take for the last gear to rotate once. 
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXK4e4uqXY


A musical interlude for your pleasure
Curriculum Tags: All

Image Links

One way to remember the digits of Pi is to make a poem with words with the same number of letters as the digits. 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2021/03/math-girl-gives-us-pi.html

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