Math Links for Week Ending May 6th, 2016

It's OAME time and for this weeks Math Links I am going to focus on what Ontario teachers said and did while there (I was only there until Friday though). Next week I will likely have more but this is all I have as of Friday night. If you have some that you know of, please let me know

My presentation this year was on using technology in Calculus class. Below is my presentation. It has five new activities that I created and a tonne of links for calculus. Check it out below. In the coming weeks I will post the activities separately.
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
http://bit.ly/oame-petro

To start off, one of the new things I created was a web sketch to investigate rates of change using the classic sliding ladder problem.
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
http://engaging-math.blogspot.ca/p/web-sketches.html

I saw some great sessions at OAME. The first one I saw on Thursday showed some great work with bots and coding from @atcave & @PaulyneCass. See below for my video of coding tessellations.
Curriculum Tags: All
http://bit.ly/RoboticsandMath

Coding for tessellations, moon shots, garbage collection & coordinates #OAME2016 #mathchat pic.twitter.com/fz7gAaklLn

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) May 5, 2016

I was introduced to the Set game by @StephRogers42 and Richard Gallant when they spoke about their Pre gr9 program. Here are their slides
Curriculum Tags: All
http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle

Having fun playing Set to help with numeracy https://t.co/xQf7GIAlmD #OAME2016 #mathchat pic.twitter.com/UEPbvZZ65Y

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) May 5, 2016

Some other sessions that I didn't see but got the slide decks for include @alexoverwijk and @bdmclaurin on creating a Thinking Classroom
Curriculum Tags: All
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14V88EtU71-mskxizlrUzbRZe5PmlSMSTbizMGls-y20/edit#slide=id.p4



@MrOrr_Geek and @mathletepearce double teamed a session on Making Grade 9 Tasks Contextual. I was in the session next door and I heard them clapping and having a great time.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P
https://tapintoteenminds.com/oame2016/



@matthewOldridge had a session packed with info on inquiring. Lots of stuff here for all grades. BTW, I love this problem with the Toonie with the middle cut out
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https://www.icloud.com/keynote/000i.....#Presentation_16

And here is the slide deck for his "What Math is " Ignite session
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/000lK....#Presentation_14




Trina Duguay and @joe_sisco presented on eLearning and math. Note that you have to make a copy of this presentation to see it.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://t.co/bY4FFK5Cne




@MrSurti did a similar session to what he did at NCTM on questioning in 3U & 4U math
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U, MCV4U
http://tinyurl.com/oame2016surti






@MrSoClassroom spent his session on talking about how to make students "Doers" of math
Curriculum Tags: All
http://bit.ly/bitnumtalks



@JaySpeijer did his on Desmos with some nods to other dynamic apps to help you choose your technology wisely.
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https://www.emaze.com/@ACZZWIFC/desmos-at-oame-2016



@HTheijmeijer and @TinaBalfe talked about their BYOD/Flipped Classroom journey in their TLLP based session that spans from grade 9 to 12
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https://goo.gl/Hi2qZm

I programmed the Dash robot to do a rectangular tessellation.
Curriculum Tags: All

In his talk @stevenstrogatz mentioned the construction to determine the area of a circle and @mathvineaday posted this
Curriculum Tags: Gr8
https://twitter.com/mathvineaday/status/728593380729602048

Hey @stevenstrogatz thought of this vine we made after your talk #OAME2016 https://t.co/hoZx3KhAFG

— MathVines (@mathvineaday) May 6, 2016

I started off the week with a great session from @DrCathyBruce and Zachary Hawes talking about the importance of spatial reasoning. We saw the research and then got to look at the brand new book they co authored Taking Shape. See the links for other tweets on key points.
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https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/727911051577065472
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/727912094528462848
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/727923539915898880
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/727935546589204480
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/727940560309264385

Three important reasons to pay attention to spatial reasoning #OAME2016 #mathchat pic.twitter.com/rSCQ0HSTkk

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) May 4, 2016

I loved seeing @stevenstrogatz speak. This was my take away (since I had already known about his Joy of X NY Times columns)
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"The kind of tub you only see in #algebra class" - @stevenstrogatz #OAME2016 #mathchat pic.twitter.com/RxKYta3Edo

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) May 6, 2016

So True
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https://twitter.com/MarkChubb3/status/728565835808133120/photo/1

Math facilitator paradoxes:

This really is complex!#OAME2016 pic.twitter.com/1RH7drEiFl

— Mark Chubb (@MarkChubb3) May 6, 2016

I love these Doodles that @Wheeler_Laura does. I don't know how she can get so much on them in such a short time. I only got to see the 2nd Ignite session but so glad she summarized both
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Round one of #Ignite at #OAME2016: pic.twitter.com/s3zA8zIziu

— Laura Wheeler (@wheeler_laura) May 6, 2016

Round 2 of #Ignite at #OAME2016: pic.twitter.com/eYXgo0KHYM

— Laura Wheeler (@wheeler_laura) May 6, 2016

I loved @Gfletchy's slide in his Ingite that reminded us that silence is OK (but hard to accept). That is, wait, let kids think after a question is posed.
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The voice in my head is continually saying... "Just Zip It!" #OAME2016 pic.twitter.com/CbY40HGjLd

— Mishaal Surti (@MrSurti) May 6, 2016

As of right now, this seems to be my most popular OAME Tweet from a session with @StephRogers42 and Richard Gallant

Some big ideas to help struggling math students #OAME2016 #mathchat pic.twitter.com/mcY9c24e09

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) May 5, 2016