Friday, July 17, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending Jul. 17th, 2020

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Are you looking for some resources to help with distance learning (who knows what the new year will look like)? Well the crew at Making Math Moments that Matter have a Guide to Distance Learning. 
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@HTheijsmeijer has updated her list of Indigenous Mathematicians and Scientist. This is definitely worth a look.
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I always love the detail that @StandupMaths takes in explaining the (seemingly) mundane things but even though this may seem mundane, I like the math that makes it possible.
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There is a lot of stuff out there about the efficacy of masks. Since there wasn't a lot of research about cloth masks for the general public before the pandemic, some are using that to attach their importance. But that is starting to change. Here @monachalabi has three (make sure you see them all) summaries of some recent research about masks (including cloth masks). 
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Wear a mask.

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This would be a good question to provoke conversation when talking about probability 
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This week's #MathPhoto20 theme is #measurement
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Friday, July 10, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending July 10th, 2020

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Last week the Ontario Ministry of Education finally released the new grade 1-8 math curriculum. This week they've started to release some of the supporting resources. There three short overview videos on the curriculum, learning areas and support materials but the thing I like the most is the PDF document on High Impact Instructional Practices. I am sure there will be more to come but this is what we have right now. 
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I feel like this post from @JStevens009 is super timely. Given that most of use were teaching online for the first time at the end of last year (and may be doing the same was the new year starts). John takes us through the mistakes that he made and whether you made these same mistakes or not, it's worth a read to get set up for the new year. 
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Here's a great video that you could use to talk about proportional reasoning as well as visualizing big numbers. Thanks to @MrOrr_Geek for pointing this one out.
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Check out Nasa engineer @Dajae_Monae on NPR's Shortwave talking about mixing math and hip hop to teach math topics. 
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Don't forget to take part in #MathPhoto20. This week's topic is angles. 
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Friday, July 3, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending Jun. 3rd., 2020

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Woah, I am behind. Have you taken part in #MathPhoto20? Organized by @TheErickLee and @CarlOliwitter, this is a weekly math photo challenge. They started a few weeks ago and have a different theme each week. Check out the first few prompts and join the fun. Be sure to include the hashtag #MathPhoto20 and check out all the submissions on their website. This week's challenge is a mashup with @Anniek_p's #MathArtChallenge
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Another activity with unlimited examples and unique, self checking practice for students. This time dealing with proportionalities to linear, quadratic and cubic functions. 
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I really like this post from @ChrisHunter36 on the mixed use of imperial and metric units here in Canada. I know that our official switch to metric happened in the 70s, so I was a kid at the time. I started learning Imperial then moved to metric. I also live next to Detroit so I have watched a lot of US TV. All that being said, I am pretty fluent in both measurement systems. But it seems that who ever made these adds must expect everyone to bet that way. Read on. 
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I am mesmerized by these two animations
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It's time to make geometric connections to pasta with a book on that very subject. 
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Friday, June 26, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending Jun. 26th, 2020

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Well it's out. The new Ontario elementary math curriculum, that is. It has been promised for years (the last change made was 15 years ago) and although the timing may not be ideal (in the middle of a pandemic) here it is and it is to be implemented in the fall. They also have a new digital platform for distribution which I am sure will be loaded up with other stuff in due time. 
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What a great idea. Who else should be added here? And I am glad that @Anniek_p added a reminder of her great resource on Not Just White Dude Mathematicians in the comments 
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Some great work here connecting dynamic geometry with functions 
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There is still some time to weigh in on this poll by @MarkChubb3 on mathematical modelling. And don't miss out on the discussion in the comments. 
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It's always fun to see the cool things you can do with math and dynamic geometry
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Fun with fractions and circles here
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It turns out they've been playing Dungeons & Dragons for centuries.
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending Jun. 20th, 2020

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We are all in a crazy state of things right now and the last quarter of the school year was not idea. But we will all be going back in the fall (in some form or another) and one thing is for sure. Students won't be prepared. So in this post, @MarkChubb3 has some tips (with the help of @TracyZager) of things to do and not to do when starting up in the September. 
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In this post @MathHombre lets one of his preservice teachers Maggie Eisenga using playing cards to help students practice basic math skills. It's a simple game and I think that is important. Making it too complex will be a turn off for kids. Having games like this in you "back pocket" to help students become fluent in math operations is a great alternative to worksheets. 
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Do you like math? pentagons? art? If you answered yes to all of those questions then you will like this interview with Diane Davis on how she uses pentagons to make art and more. 
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A couple of nice multiplication puzzles from @JamesTanton, One with multiplying fractions the other with multiplying whole numbers made of ones. Both with surprising results. Have your students try this to get your classes going. 
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It's @MathletePearce's video on conceptualizing difference of squares for his @mathisvisual feed. Check the link out for all the details beyond the video
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As always @MonaChalabi does a great job of visualizing ideas that revolve around social themes. In this case it's characterizing the demographics of people in NYC. Make sure you swipe get all the images. 
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To understand racial inequality in this city, I spent months (and months!) drawing these 100 characters for a piece in @nytopinion today. When you think about who is most affected by Covid-19, you need to consider inequalities in housing, in access to healthcare, in wealth. And so much of that ends up consistently affecting people of color. You could think of it as overlapping circles in a Venn diagram. Or, you could look at these 100 people. I'm selling prints of these on my site monachalabi.com and donating all of the profits to Covid-19 rent relief for families (a fund organised by @theconsciouskid) Huge thank you to my brilliant former coworker @aflowers85 for checking my calculations, and Jessia Ma for animating all of this with precision and creativity. Source for designing these 100 characters: US Census Bureau (American Community Survey, 2017, 5 year estimates for race age sex and disability for New York Metropolitan Statistical Area)

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I always like @JessicaHagy's graphs to help talk about related variables. In this case, this relates to my fascination with jumping ramps on my bike as a kid 
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And another one from @JessicaHagy
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Friday, June 12, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending Jun 12th, 2020

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It seems @JoBoalar is making the rounds talking about the importance of Data science in the 21st century. And She is doing one affiliated with the OAME on June 29th. More info at the link
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I like this little puzzle from @MathEqualsLove's blog. She found it on Puzzles.com. I like these kinds of thinking math starters and it's interesting how there is only one solution. 
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And even if we are mostly online, I still like card sorts and so here @MathEqualsLove has got one for factoring simple quadratics. Follow the link for the download of the printables. 
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A couple more @Desmos activities from @Christophe_Sew. One for Calculus and one for solving simple linear equations. All with step by step examples and practice problems with some random generation along the way. 
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Very Cool, here is @BobLoch describing the winner of the best use of audiotracing in the @Desmos art contest. 
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A fun little Easter Egg from Desmos. Type pride into a line on the calculator and see what happens
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Cut each line out and mix em up to talk about the permutations of the lines of this poem to create new poems. More info in the link.
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Friday, June 5, 2020

Math Links for Week Ending June 5th, 2020

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I love this dynamic visualization of the leading causes of death in the world since Jan. 1st this year. For anyone who makes the argument that the deaths due to Covid-19 aren't great, should look at the growth rate compared to everything else. 
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This is a nice eclectic resource of math ideas called Math Walks. Here @traciteacher puts math on the sidewalk but on the website, when you click on the images, you are taken to resources about that image. So if you are not inspired to do your own Math Walk, at least you might find some new resources for your class. 
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Thanks to @MissJK24319629 for pointing out this resource on seeing math everywhere in the world. Check it out. 
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Do you want some images of food labels to go with your units on unit rate and ratios? Then Chewable Math has your back. Thanks to @MissJK24319629 on this one too for pointing it out (especially since I didn't even know this was a new @FawnPNugyen product). 
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Do you want to go rogue and add some contraband colours to your @Desmos activities?
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Math is for everyone, and in this case it's Canadian drag queen @OnlineKyne who, among other drag related things, makes videos about math. She's one of the contestants on first ever Drag Race Canada and here is a compilation of some of her short math TikToks with topics like puzzles, Euler walks, probability, #statistics, infinite sums, area and more
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And in this video @OnlineKyne talks about all kinds of stuff drag related but there is a good chunk on getting a scholarship to Waterloo for math and being one of the top contestants in the Waterloo math contest
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Some fun with radians, trig and Pi (and dividing by 5s)
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Make sure you look in the comments for more of the same
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Yup, there is definitely a unit rate question in this comic
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