Math Links for Week Ending Apr. 26th, 2019

Featured Links
Who doesn't want to have their very own Personal Polynomial?
Curriculum Tags: MHF4U
https://www.globalmathproject.org/personal-polynomial/

Resource Links
If you subscribe to the Thinking Classroom then you know the importance of creating visibly random groupings of students. That is, putting students in groups where they can clearly see that it is a random selection and not by any sort of criteria. So @sig225 has created some Excel Templates to help you put your students into these random groups relatively quickly
Curriculum Tags: All
https://continuousformation.blogspot.com/2019/04/visibly-random-grouping-in-excel.html

I've been playing with pattern blocks lately and I love all the new updates to the Mathies.ca. I particularly like how you can save your files and then have students upload them as starting places.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/1119616192623157249

Can you use this virtual 21st century pattern block to continue to tile the plane? Download the file here:https://t.co/knQ2el29YM
Then upload it to the @ONmathies app https://t.co/v3l6BEt33T#mathchat #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathArt @Trianglemancsd pic.twitter.com/YwvNWXJTaZ

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) April 20, 2019

I really don't know what to do with this yet but I can't ignore a set of data about where every reported location of human feces in San Fransisco. I'l figure something out. But here, take a look and interact
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1120425646549864448

So @open_the_books mapped out every report of human feces on the streets of San Francisco since 2011 and uhhhhhh https://t.co/7t3Cocc6Qf pic.twitter.com/5B5sw8R3xC

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 22, 2019

Who knew that you could vote quadratically?
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MFM2P, MCR3U, MCF3M, MBF3C
https://twitter.com/mslawsonmath/status/1119426823530721281

Oh how excited I am that I'm in my Math 1 quadratic unit! I'll be sharing this Tuesday! #mtbos https://t.co/DMgmvK4I4p

— Ashley Lawson (@mslawsonmath) April 20, 2019

Video Links
When I was at NCTM, I went to @DanAndersod on creating graphing art and it was great. But recently he had got a new plotter and had his students code it to create some art. Make sure to click through to the thread in the link to see all the examples
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://twitter.com/dandersod/status/1118924084610588672

Aren't these great? We're going to put them up in a display case and hopefully get more (and a more diverse set of) people in Java. Our next task is to make some interactive and dynamic sketches that will also display on the TV inside the display case. (here's another timelapse) pic.twitter.com/PkVI2bS9L9

— Dan Anderson (@dandersod) April 18, 2019

Image Links
I have been having so much fun with my new 21st Century Pattern blocks.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/1120676092245893120

Starting to combine my 21st Century Pattern Blocks with traditional pattern blocks. What do you notice? What do you wonder? #mathchat #ITeachMath #MTBoS #mathart #wdyn #wdyw pic.twitter.com/CnvwXvBX5r

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) April 23, 2019

Need some data on favourite holidays?
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MBF3C, MDM4U
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-years-is-americas-fourth-favorite-holiday/