Math Links for Week Ending Sept 11, 2026

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I don't think we can talk enough about dyscalculia
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https://crpe.org/the-missing-piece-in-math-reform-identifying-and-supporting-students-with-dyscalculia/

Dyscalculia may affect 3–8% of school-age children. So why is it so often overlooked? New CRPE research examines what schools and states can do to better identify and support students. crpe.org/the-missing-... #MathEducation #SpecialEducation

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— Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice (@greatlakescenter.bsky.social) September 11, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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Solving linear equations as a cross word. I like self checking "worksheets"
Curriculum Tags: MTH1W
https://donsteward.blogspot.com/2012/02/linear-equations-crossnumbers.html

Y9 enjoyed reviewing linear equations in #mathstoday with this from the legendary Don donsteward.blogspot.com/2012/02/line...

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— Tom Gough (@mister-gough.bsky.social) September 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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Linear Algebra in the real world :-) Thanks to @JoelBezaire for this one
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https://bsky.app/profile/joelbezaire.bsky.social/post/3mv6wgtg53227

Another interesting tidbit to add to the list of Devin Cooley fun facts! 📚 (🎥: TT/natalieweyers07)

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— NHL (Bot) (@notnhl.bsky.social) September 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM

A great example of using circle theorems in a physical way (hint - chord, perpendicular bisector)
Curriculum Tags: MTH1W
https://x.com/pickover/status/2098195726358462802

Mathematical marvels, mysteries, and magic. Geometry and the eternal.

Shock your friends. Determine the center of a drawn circle without a straightedge or compass.

By math educator Tim Brzezinski, @TimBrzezinski, Used with permission. pic.twitter.com/BmJL2Jmu0o

— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) September 10, 2026

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This is a fun problem that can be done with a little bit of intuitive thinking at just about any grade level that knows how to multiply, but I suppose you could also use systems of equations as well
Curriculum Tags: Gr 7, Gr 8, MTH1W, MPM2D, MFM2P
https://bsky.app/profile/segarrogers.bsky.social/post/3mvajqnhmzs2z

I think the maths historians would probably call this a 'surveyors' problem. Am in the process of making a sheet of them ... unless anyone already has such a thing. (The 40 and the 72 are the areas of the rectangles formed by the respective diagonals). #UKMathsChat #iTeachMath

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— Segar Rogers (@segarrogers.bsky.social) September 11, 2026 at 8:07 AM