Math Links for Week Ending Jan 7th

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It's always good when someone else does the heavy lifting for you. In this case @JordanRapport has got a pile of math choice boards for elementary math class. Check them out
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17RmRcUasj8ZxAkNvWGnIoTFdmOlbr-pB

I can just about quote this entire tweet in its entirety :( Please share as a source of support for friends and colleagues. #mtbos @pgliljedahl @TheMentoree @MakeMathMoments @MingHuang_OCT @MrSoclassroom @Jason_To @ZackTeitel @RebeccaZaiontz @_CrystalMWatson @Mathgarden @HKhodai https://t.co/WcHHfiCADC

— Jordan Rappaport (@JRappaport27) January 3, 2022

Resource Links

Making puzzles with balance scales using @Mathigon
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https://twitter.com/MathigonOrg/status/1477656000555540486

Welcome students back to school by having them create a balance scale puzzle about themselves. Students can then solve their classmates' puzzles. Learn how at https://t.co/zDVhvtkV2c#math #mtbos #mathchat #edchat pic.twitter.com/kkCXIh7OwT

— Mathigon (@MathigonOrg) January 2, 2022

I like when other people post their favourite math stuff. This time it's @MathEqualsLove. I think my favourite in this post is the Panda Squares puzzle. 
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https://mathequalslove.net/monday-must-reads-volume-95/

Volume 95 of Monday Must Reads features the brilliance of @mrcolemansaur @KrumbachTricia @ONeillTeaches @Math_efki @Fouss @DavidKButlerUoA @JustinAion @MrsTenEyck and @ktemjackson.

Check out their amazing ideas here: https://t.co/movSVQQECI https://t.co/xdX0ytBsaD

— Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) January 4, 2022

You can count on @TimBrzezinski to creating so many interactives that use the OpenMiddle concept. In this case, slope, distance between points and midpoint.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D
https://twitter.com/TimBrzezinski/status/1479079188565008388

Here's a more challenging version of an @openmiddle distance, MP, slope exercise: Using digits -9 to 9 no more than 1x each, position A, B, and the MP so that no two digits on the right side have the same absolute value: https://t.co/LrWwMoZvRn @geogebra @robertkaplinsky #MTBoS pic.twitter.com/vsFA36zeZh

— Tim Brzezinski (@TimBrzezinski) January 6, 2022

Video/Audio Links

OAME members can sign up still for this week's OAMEtalks webinar on "Integers: Beyond the Rules" from @HTheijsmeijer & @DuffyRichard73 but everyone else can get a small taste of it on this month's podcast. 
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MTH1W
https://talks.oame.on.ca/season-4

It's amazing what a bit of shuffling can do to come up with another formula for area.
Curriculum Tags: MTH1W, MPM2D
https://twitter.com/MagicPi2/status/1477528481865084929

Area of a Regular Dodecagon#mtbos #iteachmath #Maths #math pic.twitter.com/eh4fNuZiIZ

— Idan Tal (@MagicPi2) January 2, 2022

I love that the hips are stationary here. Regardless, you could probably do something relating to linear relations with this one
Curriculum Tags: MTH1W
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1478163285644042241

Stepping toward infinity, in a journey to eternity.

Mathematics comes alive, via a set of rigid linkages. [Video by 上木 敬士郎 (Keishiro Ueki, @ChocoLinkage), an expert in linkage animations.] pic.twitter.com/VomYfsrazj

— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) January 4, 2022

What a cool way to connect Pythagorean Theorem to properties of lines
Curriculum Tags: MTH1W, MPM2D
https://twitter.com/MagicPi2/status/1478978727375777792

Perpendicular lines have negative reciprocal slopes#mtbos #iteachmath #Math #maths pic.twitter.com/EftrTArPye

— Idan Tal (@MagicPi2) January 6, 2022

Image Links

I see so many people playing Wordle online. So it's not surprising that someone collected some data
Curriculum tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/MathTechCoach/status/1479019037359288323

#Wordle fanshttps://t.co/pOqhvjn8Gl pic.twitter.com/Gp56l4FGww

— Steve Phelps (@MathTechCoach) January 6, 2022