Math Links for Week Ending Mar. 20th, 2020

Featured Links
There are more hits due to Corona. This time it's the OAME conference in May. We had a length discussion at OAME headquarters and given the current conditions we felt that it was best to get ahead of this and let people know. 
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https://twitter.com/OAMElearns/status/1239546928184078338

It is with deep regret that the organizing committee for OAME 2020, in consultation with the OAME Executive Committee, must announce the cancellation of OAME 2020: In Focus that was to take place May 7-8, 2020.
Please go to our website for more details:https://t.co/PLty0r20PF pic.twitter.com/re6zA1FTcD

— OAMElearns (@OAMElearns) March 16, 2020

Resource Links
Yup Conona keeps on going and I love that in this trying time, there are teachers who are doin analysis of their own. This is Ontario Math Links and @realJ_Mitchell has been keeping track of the numbers for Ontario. Check out this thread where he is making predictions and posts his @Desmos file. So if you are doing any sort of exponential stuff with your kids (either online or when we get back), you might want to work with this
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U, MCT4C
https://twitter.com/realJ_Mitchell/status/1241740759637929986

March 22, 57 days since the first #COVIDー19 case in Ontario.
424 total cases in Ontario today, which was under my prediction.
Tomorrow, 485 to 522 cases. Wide spread, suggesting my models are diverging (a good thing if we are truly slowing down). #MTBoS #OntEd #OnPoli https://t.co/sUUkgXJnoV pic.twitter.com/iZCgQf4Mgp

— Jamie Mitchell (@realJ_Mitchell) March 22, 2020

Here is a pretty cool simulator for how outbreaks spread. It's full of scenarios that start from the simple and move to the complex with sliders that you can play with. Have fun.
Curriculum Tags: MHF4U, MDM4U
https://twitter.com/davidpetro314/status/1240298827095080962

Here’s a neat set of simulations to model infectious disease spread from @KevinSimler https://t.co/qQAp4w2gKH#mathchat #MTBoS #iTeachMath #statschat

— David Petro (@davidpetro314) March 18, 2020

New from @Desmos just in time for the influx of online learning is a set of activity screens that are premade and easily copiable.
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https://twitter.com/Desmos/status/1240398489877651457

Project from our Distance Learning Task Force, intended to make activities that involve wellness checks for your students. Credit to @ddmeyer @jenny_wales @zmill415 @MsHelft @_faithmoynihan. Email coronavirus@desmos.com if you have questions or ideas on how we can support you. https://t.co/nCEpOK1upf

— Eli Luberoff (@eluberoff) March 18, 2020

And if you have ever used SolveMe Mobiles then you might like this new activity as a intro to systems of equations.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MFM2P
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5e7272e64e91f10c4dd87821


Video/Audio Links
Some Pi Day videos starting with @standupmaths calculating Pi by hand the old fashioned way
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https://youtu.be/CKl1B8y4qXw

And of course @ViHartViHart has her Pi day rant, this time as a mashup with the Corona Virus.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Lc5-6L1pE

Another one from @3Blue1Brown on probability strategies and the binomial theorem. I particularly like the initial context of Amazon ratings.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8idr1WZ1A7Q

If you haven't checked out @StevenStrogatz new podcast, The Joy of X, I think you are missing out. On it, he interviews working scientists and mathematicians and I really like the insights he reveals about what they actually do. Check it out on your favourite podcasting platform.
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https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-joy-of-x

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joy-of-x/id1495067186




Some interesting math to reverse engineer the Covid-19 numbers coming out of Iran to give something that may be more realistic.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086krm0

Image Links
I have been seeing a lot of people posting images of various designs made with pattern blocks. You can have any of your kids (students or children) create their own patterns virtually using the awesome @OnMathies pattern blocks app to do so.
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https://mathies.ca/learningTools.php#Pp0