Math Links for Week Ending Aug. 18th, 2017

This will be an abbreviated math links because I am up north cottaging with very little Internet access (or electricity for that matter) but it seems fitting that since it is close to the beginning of the school year (at least here in Ontario) that @RobertKaplinski has a short post about setting up classroom norms.
Curriculum Tags: All
http://robertkaplinsky.com/30-second-classroom-norms-speech/

Here's a nice little Desmos activity dealing with transformations. Although the notations used doesn't quite match up with Ontario curriculum, it shouldn't be too much of a stretch for our grade 7&8 students. But the concepts of transformations should be easier to deal with with these visual examples.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
http://blog.desmos.com/post/164342183367/friday-fave-for-august-18

Are you going to check out the eclipse on Monday? Maybe you might want to add some trig related eclipse activities to your classes.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MPM2P
https://www.yummymath.com/2017/total-solar-eclipse-apparent-sizes/






Use this video game to teach calculus (or at least limits and continuity). Thanks to @Esping_Math for this one. Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
http://kotaku.com/i-learned-calculus-with-a-video-game-and-it-was-surpri-1797982791