Our campus will ticket people who back in because they really hold up traffic when students are trying to get to school in the morning.
Great idea. I’m going to use this next semester.
This looks fun. I saved a copy to try with my class later.
I just volunteered my students to puzzle test for this. I loved thee big yellow game book he did. #MTBoS
Wow! That’s way better than my multiplying by the conjugate way.
Thanks for sharing!
Only ever used it in an upper division Astronomy class with spherical trig. By that time, it was a trivial calculation to pick up if you had never seen arcminutes. I skip it in pre-Calc unless I have extra time.
Love it! Keep ‘em coming!
Vector fields as art. In #MathsToday the students had to create a vector field and overlay it with a picture to create Vector Art.
Just a fun little extension at the end of a unit. #iTeachMath
This looks fun. Do you have a link you can share for the document?
What a great idea!
Last challenge was to use at least 3 logs to create log8. Students were really creative. But the fact that one group had log2+log2+log2 and another had 3log2 helped move towards the log(2^3)=log8.
It was a nice way to informally introduce log properties and play with log tables b4 formalizing.
In #MathsToday we had success discovering the log properties. I had students use a log table to find all the ways to combine logs to equal log2, which led to them noticing the loga-logb=log(a/b) property. Then they looked for ways to make log12 (which led to discovering the product property.
Fire and Ice!
Your prompt has really gotten me thinking. I’ll have to share it with some students and see what they come up with.
Or perhaps this visual I made on Polypad showing the 4 copies of the product of consecutive numbers.
A neat extension seen on Facebook. A visual proof that an odd number squared is also 8 times a triangular number plus one.
You can modify the prompt and get a second problem. How many different slopes can there be for segments connecting grid points? How does that change with the grid size?
I applied.
Wait… I thought all cows were spherical….
I only have a small printer at home. But here it is! It’s on the fridge so the teen will see it and ask about it. 😀
Thanks! I’m printing the knot map out now…
I had the same thought about the poster.
That is beyond sweet! Happy birthday.
I’m enjoying following along on your blog too.
In #MathsToday we used the Koch Snowflake to review writing exponential equations from data. Students then discussed what the end behavior would be for the equation of the perimeter.
The kids enjoyed hearing how this was thought “abominable” by mathematicians when first discovered.
How timely. We are doing this lesson tomorrow!
In #MathsToday we learned how to sketch vector fields. Then we had some fun with this neat app. Try the randomize button. #maths #MathArt
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