Friday, August 12, 2016

Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 12th, 2016

Here is a short activity that I created with Desmos to have students practice with interpolation and extrapolation. It uses some of the new Draw features as well.
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P, MDM4U, MAP4C
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/57a0878b8845a38d422ffc6e

There will likely be a host of Olympic related math resources around the Interwebs but I like this if you are looking for an introduction or review of Order of Operations. Here the Romanian soccer team puts math expressions instead of numbers on their jerseys.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/03/27/romanias-soccer-team-puts-math-problems-instead-of-player-numbers-on-jerseys/

And speaking of Order of operations, I really like this Desmos Activity created by @mathycathy that uses order of operations and the Draw feature. The original post was  from @mathequalslove about these Twin Puzzles is here, but the Desmos version is pretty sweet and simple. Also included in the original post is a couple of other types of puzzles. One dealing with area and the other dealing with geometric shapes.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
http://mathequalslove.blogspot.ca/2016/08/volume-3-japanese-logic-puzzles-for.html
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/57adc1b8a6bfc5b06516d9e8


In grade 9 we talk about optimization. As it turns out there are reasons you may not want to optimize when it comes to consumer goods. This might be a nice addition to any lesson this topic. See the link below for some explanation or just watch the video
Curriculum Tags: MPM1D, MFM1P
http://diply.com/sciencep/article/why-soda-cans-are-shaped-that-way-ingenious


I love this new (to me) Reddit feed about beautiful data. You can find it on Reddit or on Twitter @DataIsBeautiful.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://twitter.com/DataIsBeautiful




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2 comments:

  1. Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)August 13, 2016 at 9:32 PM

    The Desmos activity was actually created by Cathy Yenca. It was just inspired by my blog post :)

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  2. David PetroAugust 13, 2016 at 10:04 PM

    yup, I probably should have noticed that. Thanks for the heads up. It's fixed now.

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