Math Links for Week Ending Jan 21st, 2022

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Are you playing Wordle? I few weeks ago I posted some data on the game. Well now there are a couple of math centric Wordle knock offs.
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https://mathszone.co.uk/resources/grid/ooodle/
https://www.mathspad.co.uk/i2/teach.php?id=timesTableSequences

Have a go at Ooodle too. An order of operations version of wordle https://t.co/uyuhMexA8u pic.twitter.com/2ZR3A5WB5z

— Mark Weddell (@markfromlondon) January 20, 2022

Resource Links

Do your kids need practice with inverse trig functions in radian mode? 
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https://twitter.com/TimBrzezinski/status/1481802599355625478

Evaluating inverse trig functions at special ratios: Super quick formative assessment via @geogebra : https://t.co/fscrfhQrn8 & https://t.co/7shYuKOgUe. #MTBoS #ITeachMath #trig #geometry #precalculus pic.twitter.com/0Dq7GFq4Fi

— Tim Brzezinski (@TimBrzezinski) January 14, 2022

Puzzles dealing with reenforcement of the area of triangles. Why not?
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https://mathequalslove.net/sankaku-puzzles/

I recently re-discovered these Sankaku Puzzles from Naoki Inaba, a prolific Japanese puzzle creator.

The Goal: Connect three dots to form a triangle with the specified area.https://t.co/sMhy4Pk8jE #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom pic.twitter.com/0TNyw77sed

— Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) January 21, 2022

Opinion Links

When a context is a pseudo context it's not really a context. 
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https://twitter.com/fawnpnguyen/status/1484241483553120256 

I dislike these so much.

Both pieces came from the same freakin pizza? pic.twitter.com/u251rznEpo

— Fawn Nguyen (@fawnpnguyen) January 20, 2022

Video Links

Conic sections are out of the Ontario curriculum now but any time I can feature a video with Cliff Stoll, I'm gonna do it. And if you haven't heard the @Numberphile podcast episode with Cliff, it's literally one of my favourites. And of course, get your Kline bottle from him too. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0LVEvtjK4M

Image Links

When you look at this without considering the sum of a series, it seems like it could be tough. But maybe don't give that hint. 
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https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1484538484266344452

Mathematics.

A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the slip of paper below, and says "Can you find any non-trivial integer solutions for this alluring equation?" What is your response? pic.twitter.com/hS541MRz5A

— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) January 21, 2022