Elizabeth Durkin
New Zealander currently living in Kobe, Japan. High school mathematics teacher in an international school. Married with two children.
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Math Munch | A Weekly Digest of the Mathematical Internet - 0 views
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This is a nice blog curating the week's interesting internet finds for mathematics. Might be a cool thing to have on your reader for catching useful classroom activities.
Global Math Games (19 links) - Urlist - 1 views
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Math games. Recommended by John Golden at a Global Math webinar. (Global math webinars are free by the way, every Wed at 11 am if you are availiable at that time.)
Trigonometry - 0 views
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Triangle trig, trig graphs, unit circle, trig ids all explained on one page. Could be useful flipping tool. Some cool applets too.
AprilMYPWorkshop - MYP Year 5 Exemplars - 0 views
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Right hand column gives great resources for assessment in the different year levels of MYP. Thanks again to Shin for sharing.
Secondary Teacher Page : nrich.maths.org - 0 views
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Secondary school teachers, Nrich home page. Ideal for assessment, enrichment and challenge ideas. Thanks to Shin for sharing.
Base 12 - Numberphile - YouTube - 0 views
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Dozemal sysem (base 12) video by Numberphile to commemorate 12.12.12 today.
Arsenal Collection: Stadium Sightline | Maths and Sport - 0 views
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Math and sport, in particular Footlball. Geometry, probability, percentages, problems and design tasks for maths.
Johnnie's Middle School Math - Geometry - Pythagoras and Right Triangles - 0 views
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Interactive Pythagoras manipulatives and activities.
Twitter / TeacherToolkit: To all Maths teachers, ... - 0 views
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Might be worth noting for 2015, for those of us still here then ...
AIDS-HIV Statistics - Activities - Teach Maths - 1 views
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Cool idea for logic and stats, together with social studies. This activity was made for World Aids Day. The idea is that you have stats on 8 different countries, but don't know which stats go with which country. Students have to collate the data for each country and decide which country is which. Probably high school level.
Animated Factorization Diagrams - Data Pointed - 2 views
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Animation of prime factorization of the first 1000 prime numbers. Great for classes doing prime factorizations, or just nmber studies. Gives a visual appreciation for how we can group numbers
We Use Math - 1 views
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Good for showing students the value and usefulness of mathematics.
The Story and Wonders of Pi - 0 views
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Nice animations and history of pi. More detail would be good eg how did Archimedes approximate pi to such a degree.
Numberphile - Videos about Numbers and Stuff - 0 views
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Short (3 to 7 mins) videos about famous numbers and cool graphics eg batman curve, kanji symbols for numbers etc. Very good for enrichment, but the presenters are sometimes a bit geeky.
Mathopolis - 0 views
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Interactive games and multi-choice questions for various levels.
The Order of Operations Millionaire Game - 0 views
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Fun game for individuals or the whole class. Order of ops game in the form of "Who wants to be a Millionaire".
Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown? | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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Humourous historical perspective on why we use x as the unknown in algebra.
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies - 0 views
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Great for Logic units: Math Studies and Integrated Mathematics 10.
MathsLinks - a directory or useful maths links - 0 views
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Directory of various math resources. Nicely categorized into branches of math that match our MYP branches.