Saturday, October 30, 2021

Math Links for Week Ending Oct 29th, 2021

Featured Links

A spinoff of the NPR show Science Friday is the podcast #ScienceDiction where in each episode they take on a science word and talk about its history. On this episode they talk about the word Algebra. And the thing I love the most about this is that it is that the main part of the story is about a high schooler, Gracie Cunningham, who posted a TikTok asking where algebra came from and it went viral and it seemed like she was made fun of by everyone but math professors. Including great stuff from @StevenStrogatz and @DrEugeniaCheng
Curriculum Tags:All
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/science-diction/articles/algebra-from-broken-bones-to-twitter-feuds

Resource Links 

I like that @mathequalslove continues to post puzzles that she uses for her class to solve each week. She posts them in a public space and just lets them stew over them.
Curriculum Tags: All
https://mathequalslove.net/three-squared-puzzle/

Doing some work with powers of 10? This might be a good way to start. Thanks to @BenOrlin for reminding me about this book

Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021/09/30/a-hundred-thousand-billion-poems/



Opinion Links 

I having spent about 10 years out of the classroom in a support role, I get what @ddmeyer is saying. Though I’m not a classroom teacher ( I’m a VP) now, being back in a building and sometimes teaching multiple classes a day I have a lot of the same feelings.

Curriculum Tags: All
https://blog.mrmeyer.com/2021/area-man-who-talks-a-lot-about-teaching-teaches-his-first-full-day-in-10-years/


Video Links

I love the contextual connection between ice cream cones and bowls
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://twitter.com/howie_hua/status/1453882299171295235?s=21

Image Links

Clever and true
Curriculum Links: MPM2D, MFM2P
https://twitter.com/howie_hua/status/1452355822323834883?s=21

You don’t have to do crazy elaborate things to engage kids and make them think. Simple tweaks are great and easy to implement.
Curriculum Tags: MPM2D, MFM2P
https://twitter.com/mrsbistro/status/1451621405058113547?s=21

Interested in the history of TV. Here’s some data on the popularity of various genres I’ve time
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://flowingdata.com/2021/10/26/television-genres-over-time/


How about some visual mathematical poetry? Check the link out for more
Curriculum Tags: All
https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2021/10/visual-mathematical-poetry.html




 

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