Math Links for Week Ending Jun. 21st, 2019

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I always love when @AlexOverwijk shows these time lapse videos of his classroom. In this case, it's the final exam for Calculus. Part of the exam was done in groups (on VNPS) and the rest was individual. I know that people like the idea of these collaborative classes, but often abandon those ideas for more traditional experiences once students get to the higher grades. So it is great to see that students can thrive and succeed in these senior math classes with these more progressive types of assessments.

Curriculum Tags: MCV4U, All

https://twitter.com/AlexOverwijk/status/1141354731257966592

https://twitter.com/AlexOverwijk/status/1141715269255081984

And this is how we roll on exam day in MCV4U

Part 1 Collaborative

Part 2 Individual

Can’t stress enough how relaxed the atmosphere is. Total collective learning.#destressingexams #celebratingwhatweknow#evaluatewhatyouvalue#doingitdifferent #thinkingclassroom

cc @pgliljedahl pic.twitter.com/2DexIuGVFf

— Alex Overwijk (@AlexOverwijk) June 19, 2019

And today’s action.#mtbos#iteachmath

exam day in MCV4U

Part 1 Collaborative

Part 2 Individual pic.twitter.com/5hfxoLi5hI

— Alex Overwijk (@AlexOverwijk) June 20, 2019

Resource Links

Do you want a wealth of fraction resources that conceptualize the ideas of what fractions are all the way from their meaning and representations to operations. All research based and well documented.

Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8

http://www.fractionslearningpathways.ca/

Check out our new fractions pathways website: https://t.co/NyNYyXi09A Here's the multiplication and division component of the pathway. All those cells are HOTLINKS to tasks and other resources. @ShelleyYearley @taracflynn Shout out to @uptergroveGreg for his technical magic! pic.twitter.com/El9RGuiF0W

— Cathy Bruce (@drcathybruce) June 19, 2019

Do you want to have some fun with square numbers? Then @mathgarden has your back. Last week I included this image as a single Tweet but now he's turned it into a full post on Medium. Whether you look at it from the patterning view as created by sums of odd numbers or geometric view as the area of a square with whole numbered sides, there is something here for you.

Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8

https://medium.com/@sunilsingh_42118/mathematics-it-doesnt-have-to-a-loveless-marriage-3ba47e60ef

I have said it before, I like self checking activities for practice. Though this isn't exactly a self checking activity, the design of it makes it easy to check. Basically it's four questions and their answers are to be summed and put in the centre. As the teacher, you need only check the sum to see if it's correct. Download all five sets from @marybourassa's blog

Curriculum Tags: MPM1D

http://marybourassa.blogspot.com/2019/06/add-them-up-equations-of-line.html

Registration has opened up for this year's @OAMEcounts Leadership conference. This year it's incoming president @Paul_math's turn to organize the event and it looks like he's got a great line up. With @NatBanting, @MrAspinal, @EmDelSordo, @NHenryFundi, @marian_small, @hirenbmistry1 ‏and @dduff77, More details at the link

Curriculum Tags: All

http://mathsoxlearner.blogspot.com/2019/06/leadership-2019-wait-til-next-year.html

Video/Audio Links

I seriously can't get enough of the Numberphile podcast. Brady is such a good interviewer and where else can you get @stevenstrogatz crying about mathematics. Even though this is primarily about calculus, I think this could easily be applicable to general mathematics.

Curriculum Tags: MCV4U

https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/steven-strogatz

Image Links

It turns out that June 17th is World Tessellation Day (in honour of MC Escher's Birthday - I know that thanks to @MSBJacobs)

Curriculum Tags: Gr7

https://twitter.com/letsplaymath/status/1140636410896179200

Math + Art = Win.

Happy World Tessellation Day!https://t.co/8Y6rMOGyXc pic.twitter.com/uJauQobquF

— Denise Gaskins (@letsplaymath) June 17, 2019

In honour of World Tessellation day I reposted my dynamic Escher-esque tessellation

Curriculum Tags: Gr7

http://engaging-math.blogspot.com/p/desmos-activities_10.html

Apparently today is World #Tessellation day. Who knew? (and who decides?) None the less, you can check out my dynamic tessellation and other @Desmos activities herehttps://t.co/cnpvbF8mdA#mathchat #MTBoS #ITeachmath pic.twitter.com/Iba8b0plRQ

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) June 17, 2019

And finally for World Tessellation day, this series of Tweets from @Simon_Gregg that starts with some simple work with triangles then ends with a very cool tiling pattern. Be sure to follow the whole string of Tweets

Curriculum Tags: Gr7

https://twitter.com/Simon_Gregg/status/1140285869527588865

Experimenting with tilings with half squares #beingmathematical pic.twitter.com/XxSmk8JNKE

— Simon Gregg (@Simon_Gregg) June 14, 2019