Friday, August 5, 2022

Math Links for Week Ending Aug 5th, 2022

Featured Links

I know that Henri has suggested that his post where he speaks of going full force with technology as "controversial", but I think maybe just for traditionalists. There are whole banks of math teachers that think that math is just about solving equations but I like these two quotes to give you a sense of where he is going: "Many math educators consider the solving of linear equations to be the heart of algebra. The topic is often introduced early, atomized into many special cases (one-step, two-step, etc.), and the subject of endless mind-numbing practice. For many students, this carries little meaning, other than “I’m supposed to get x by itself”" and "But note that of all the conceivable equations, only linear and quadratic equations can be solved with paper and pencil. If exponential, trigonometric, or logarithmic expressions are involved, Algebra 1 techniques are useless." Check it out yourself here
Curriculum Tags: All
https://blog.mathed.page/2022/08/04/technology-in-math-education/

Resource Links

If you are doing any work on working with equations (Eg, subbing values in) then this equation about measuring "good value" might be a great conversation starter too. 
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MTH1W
https://twitter.com/tomrocksmaths/status/1554101589719252999

Video Links

If you are doing any work with area of quadrilaterals then this might be a great problem to work on and if you want to get kids started, here is a triangle only version using Desmos Geometry.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MTH1W
https://twitter.com/MagicPi2/status/1554007752149811200

Image Links

Week 8 of #MathPhoto22 is all about #angles
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/meganisalanis/status/1554920041912487936

No comments:

Post a Comment