Carter Orieux

A mysterious room with an enormous key.

🔑🚪It’s time to escape! Check out the newest Desmos escape room!

To play yourself: student.desmos.com/join/3jjxj9
(no need to log in but it will save your progress if you do)

Here’s the teacher link to run it with a class:
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Have fun!

I'm bored of the hotdog sandwich debate. Try this one. Is rice a dish or an ingredient? Is there a recipe for a banana? @carterorieux.bsky.social . Is there a minimum requirement for a recipe?

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Gokal Krishnan of The Math Connection. The text says “Real life Mathematics” followed by a sandwich emoji. Then there is a quote: “Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.” — Tobias Dantzig. A picture is titled “Real life Mathemarics” and shows two sandwiches, one cut into two with a diagonal cut and the other cut into two with a vertical cut parallel to the sides. Below this is one triangle half sandwich and an equal sign and one rectangle half sandwich. Below this is the heading “proof” followed by the sentence “If the side of the sandwich is x, then the area of both parts are” A picture of the triangle as half a square with the perpendicular edges labelled x and x, is equal to half times base times height, which is equal to x squared divided by 2 A picture of the rectangle as half a square with the perpendicular edges labelled x divided by 2 and x, is equal to length times width, which is equal to x times x divided by 2, which is equal to x squared divided by 2.

Saw this on LinkedIn and I beg to differ. They are not equal and the triangle sandwich is better, as every child knows.

palindrome | noun | a word, verse, or sentence or a number that reads the same backward or forward

It comes from Greek 'palindromos,' meaning "running back again."

The best palindrome of all time is...

Can you nerd snipe me with it?

High school educators, do you value a cumulative final? If so, why? If not, why?

TEACHER VOICE: Instead of worrying about whether math is easy or difficult, let’s make it welcoming - The Hechinger Report There’s an assumption that teaching math should move students from “easy” to “difficult.” But easy and difficult are only proxies for two higher virtues, the actual qualities of successful instruction...

I love this from Ben Orlin.

“Mathematical truth may be black and white, but mathematical thinking is not.”

Also that maths class can be both welcoming and challenging.

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Things I have learnt from the quadratic formula.

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#ITeachMaths #UKMathsChat

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I quite enjoy this problem.

Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Math Education: Assessment. Free three-part webinar series hosted by Indigenous Math Education Network & Edith Lando Virtual Learning Centre at UBC. elvlc.educ.ubc.ca/2024/10/17/i...

(me and my students get to do graphing in 3D!!!)

Cool Math Games - Free Online Games for Learning and Fun Coolmath Games is a brain-training site for everyone, where logic & thinking & math meets fun & games. These games have no violence, no empty action, just a lot of challenges that will make you forget...

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