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# Posts

### October 31, 2014

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It’s Halloween – it’s also close to election day – let’s combine these events into one big super-terrific class opener! I spent last night at Wegman’s assembling my candy corn population, which consists of lots of “regular” candy corn, and … Continue reading →
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Come si risolvono le proporzioni?
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Sam Shah’s blog has been a veritable teaching clinic the last two weeks, more than filling his own installment of Great Classroom Action. With Attacks and Counterattacks, Sam asked his students to define common shapes as best as they could – triangle, polygon, and circle, for instance. They traded definitions with each other and tried to […]
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Het klaslokaal van de toekomst heeft 6 zones:Creëren Interactie Presenteren Onderzoeken Uitwisselen Ontwikkelen "Created by European Schoolnet, the Future Classroom Lab (FCL) is an inspirational learning environment in Brussels, challenging visitors to rethink the role of pedagogy, technology and design in their classrooms. Through six learning zones, visitors can explore the essential elements in delivering 21st century learning: students' and teachers' skills and roles, learning styles, […]
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This week’s top new iPhone app is helping kids cheat on their math homework: Daniel A. Medina: In response, the company wrote a blog post Thursday addressing the concerns—essentially saying that students looking to cheat would cheat anyway, with or without PhotoMath. They said they saw PhotoMath as a sort of 21st-century calculator: “We’re sure that the same questions were raised when calculators entered classrooms,” they wrote. “With PhotoMath, our goal is to make a much more […]
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Given a 5-pointed star like the one shown below, what is the sum of the angles in the outer “arms” of the star? A variation on this problem showed up on a contest our students took last week.  I think there … Continue reading →
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Fawn Nguyen is so great at sharing interesting math problems.  On twitter, on her blog, in person, and probably some bat signal type thing if you live in California – she’s got such a great nose for interesting math.   … Continue reading →
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Halloween Twitter Problem (@dmarain)    Treats__Kids           1 ___4           2____5           3____4           4____4 M
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Spooky Halloween everyone! This week’s problem will be the last for this month. Since it’s still October, we will tackle about Combinatorics. Submission period is from October 31-November 7,2014 for your name to appear in... The post TGIF Problem of the Week 9 appeared first on Techie Math Teacher.
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Originally posted on Math Online Tom Circle:孤岛天才 超强记忆:
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One of the topics in Mathematics that has a huge application is quadratic equations. From projectile motion, prize optimization, profit estimates, solving speed, age problems, and more. Today, let’s talk about one specific problem... The post Dividing Fare for Jeepney appeared first on Techie Math Teacher.
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Mathematicians and Musicians
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The IB programme is gaining popularity throughout the world. In Singapore, some schools offer the IB Programme instead of the A Levels, most notably being ACS (International). The IB Mathematics definitely has some interesting topics, including Number Theory, Graph Theory, … Continue reading →
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Imagine yourself as a student who has always had a hard time with math. Honestly, you are not even sure why there are sometimes multiple variables in the same formula. When the teacher starts a new topic, you may need to see it 4 different ways and have it be repeated a lot of times in order to become somewhat proficient at the skills involved, even though the general idea is sometimes (not always) accessible to you. When other people discuss mathematics in groups, the speed at which they are […]
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Long title. I know. It's late and I couldn't think of a shorter one.  Think of it as a title/thesis statement all in one.~~I am finding more and more that people in education use the word "flip" to refer to anytime students watch an instructional video.  That's frustrating to me.For me, flipping my classroom was aboutfinding a way to support my students more in their learning, and tobetter differentiate my instruction and time with them.  It was aboutgetting out of the front of […]
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It started last summer, I was talking to my dad, who had just started watching The Big Bang Theory online, and he compared the boys on the show to my brother and his friends.  You see my brother has had the same group of friends since high school, and they are by most people’s standards, […]
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At the RLM and IBL Conference last June, we asked a handful of IBL instructors to tell us about one of their most memorable IBL experience.  Here they are in their own words.What is one of your most memorable IBL experience?
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Es klingelt. Nichtsahnend öffne ich die Tür und sehe einen völlig Fremden vor mir. Einen Fremden, der gelassen unseren Hund am Nacken zur Haustür geschleppt hat. Mein Blick wandert von ihm zum Hund und wieder zurück. ”Hi”, stellt er sich vor. “Ich besuche eure Nachbarn – und Bailey ist in … Continue reading →
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I just finished up arithmetic series, and I wanted to push my Advanced Precalculus students to think hard. I usually provide them with enough scaffolding that I know they will be able to get from Point A to Point B. But today I decided I wanted to “be less helpful.” I told the groups to […]
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The UKEdchat Mathematics Subject Special took place on Thursday 23rd October and the Session page has been updated with the complete chat.  Note that you do not need a Twitter account to view any of the links mentioned in the … Continue reading →
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*The image is a pumpkin carved a few Halloweens ago by Sonja L. One of my Stats/Calc students (and a really good Bassoonist, Bassooner, Bassoon-enough)It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. ~Karl WeierstrassThe 304th day of the year; 304 is the sum of six consecutive primes starting with 41, and also the sum of eight consecutive primes starting with 23. (and for those who keep up with such things, it is also the record number of […]

### October 30, 2014

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The first half term of the school year has seen us embark on a newer emphasis on 'progress over time' and a need for students' exercise books to be glistening with not only marked work, but 'learning dialogues/conversations' including students' responses to our WWW/EBI comments. This, is also (as I found out in an observation the last week of the half term), coupled with students needing to show knowledge of their previous learning when quizzed during the lesson observation by my observers: if […]
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Come join us November 1st and hone your skills for this year’s problem solving season.  AMC 8 is this month, making it a great time to delve into various interesting problems.  Combinatorics, Number Theory, Geometry, and Algebra problems will be presented with multiple difficulty levels to challenge and delight our math circle patrons.  Whether you […]
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Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human: David Auerbach: The usual way a computer plays chess is to consider various move possibilities individually, evaluate the resulting boards, and rank moves as being more or less advantageous. Yet for games like Go and Twixt, this approach breaks down. Whereas at any point in chess there are at most a couple dozen possible moves, these games offer hundreds of possible moves (thousands in the case of Arimaa, which was designed to be a […]
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I’ve just finished watching ITV Tonight’s episode from this evening entitled “Trouble with numbers”. The show was highlighting the problem we have in this country with maths ability in Adults. I found it pretty interesting, and if you missed it I would certainly suggest catching up on it. There were a number of things highlighted […]
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This post gives a […]
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Anche se non è una ricorrenza italiana, Halloween può diventare un'utile occasione per imparare qualcosa di nuovo a scuola ed acquisire un po' di manualità. Abbiamo visto, qualche anno fa, le opere d'arte matematiche realizzate con le zucche dagli studenti del dipartimento di Matematica della Denison University a Granville, in Ohio, utili per realizzare divertenti attività interdisciplinari tra matematica ed arte, ma quest'anno voglio proporvi qualcosa che abbia più attinenza con le […]
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