Math Links for Week Ending Sept 17th, 2021

Featured Links

More and more resources are coming out for the new Grade 9 Destreamed course and I love that everyone is sharing. This time it's a website from @WRDSB. Thanks to @MaryBourassa for pointing this one out
Curriculum Tags: MTH1W
https://sites.google.com/wrdsb.ca/mth1w/home

Resource Links

Here's a great activity for fractions (you could probably pick just about any fraction topic and connect it to this). Thanks to @normabgordon for creating it
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, G8, MTH1W
https://mathigon.org/polypad/KXAW2SBYIocOCQ

Someone put the Unusual Baker problem (NCTM, BTC) on Mathigon. Thank you! (I wish I could give you credit.) Cake #7 doesn't look the exactly the same as in @pgliljedahl's book (Figure 10.1), but I like that it is going to the midpoints. https://t.co/xF1qJ5r3Z9

— Mary Bourassa (@MaryBourassa) September 15, 2021

Video Links

My favourite thing about this video is that with a typical solution you might hear a phrase like "cross multiply" but here @Howie_Hua uses one of my favourite properties - so good. 
Curriculum Tags: Gr8, MTH1W
https://twitter.com/howie_hua/status/1438656077973778432

New TikTok video: How fast do you need to drive? pic.twitter.com/UG0RDo3ig7

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) September 17, 2021

I think you could easily connect this multiplication (and division) strategy to binary.
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MTH1W
https://twitter.com/howie_hua/status/1437934339707207680

New TikTok video: Egyptian multiplication and division pic.twitter.com/CeupnO80ia

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) September 15, 2021

Image Links

I don't even like this band and probably couldn't identify one of these songs but I still got this
Curriculum Tags: 
https://twitter.com/howie_hua/status/1437926675501641729

Only one person in my upper division college classes knew who this group was. It made me feel old lol pic.twitter.com/0EV5ytl3jZ

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) September 14, 2021

Talking about scatterplots or correlation? Check out this graph:
Curriculum Tags: Gr8, MTH1W, MDM4U
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1438565863540539393 

Brain size vs body weight of various animals. We humans (I assume you aren't a water opossum) are a positive outlier. So are foxes, apes, and dolphins. Source: https://t.co/Jtj9pgyf5N pic.twitter.com/zUW0mNBKAi

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) September 16, 2021