Math Links for Week Ending Aug 28th, 2026

Featured Links

The power of functions and inequalities
Curriculum Tags: MCR3U, MHF4U
https://youtu.be/NbrvuXib9mk

forgot to share this: I made a tutorial on how to draw anything with a single equation/inequality. youtu.be/NbrvuXib9mk I tried animating it all in @desmos.com but gave up 1 minute into the video and used Davinci Resolve... it was fun to start improving my Desmos animation skills though! #iteachmath

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— Mathemagicland (@mathemagicland.bsky.social) August 28, 2026 at 12:49 PM

Resource Links

Double percentages are always fun
Curriculum Tags: Gr7, Gr8, MTH1W
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nG57nIzY7ZD_kQzsa2gDs9eJMDLzttZcHf4ZKMfKmp4/edit?slide=id.geb5d854f2a_0_0#slide=id.geb5d854f2a_0_0

In #MathsToday, "Which Deal is Better" sparked discussion about how percentages stack, and whether you can just choose a starting value arbitrarily (Yes!) docs.google.com/presentation... (Sorry - don't remember the source) 3/4

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— Carl Brandt Long (@carlblong.bsky.social) August 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM

Video Links

I love this video because it's a great example of how multiple components create complex motions. I think it's a great example of the ideas when combining vectors 
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
https://x.com/PhilosophyOfPhy/status/2093341582137385462

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

- Immanuel Kant pic.twitter.com/3DcgbpUDYO

— Philosophy Of Physics (@PhilosophyOfPhy) August 28, 2026

I think this would be interesting to do with students under the guise of working with roots and calculations

Curriculum Tags: MTH1W
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mXaU3N9e8Y

Image Links

A great Calculus meme
Curriculum Tags: MCV4U
https://x.com/howie_hua/status/2093444091271086441

Can you figure it out? pic.twitter.com/GQP4DOQFlT

— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) August 28, 2026

Fun with numbers 
Curriculum Tags: All
https://x.com/fermatslibrary/status/2093465647938154778

Take the digits of 197 and start a sequence where each term is the sum of the previous three:

1, 9, 7, 17, 33, 57, 107, 197

The original number turns up on its own. This is what defines a Keith number - a rare kind, named after Mike Keith, the mathematician who first remarked… pic.twitter.com/uPngkSEi2q

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) August 28, 2026

More number fun
Curriculum Tags: All
https://x.com/pickover/status/2093032310526333056

Mathematics.

This is a "Soul-Mate Number Pair." They love each other so much that they contain fragments of one another, forever bonded until the end of time. pic.twitter.com/is3E0qcIPF

— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) August 27, 2026

Some fun with "lines" of best fit
Curriculum Tags: MDM4U
https://x.com/infobeautiful/status/2093350835132436548 

Curve fitting methods & what they say https://t.co/cjbZOiC107 pic.twitter.com/hEhtx7HMCq

— Information is Beautiful (@infobeautiful) August 28, 2026