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The Data and Story Library - 0 views

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    This online library is designed to give data about a myriad of topics so that teachers can use them for teaching statistics. I think it could be helpful for designing story problems in general.
Elsina Ericson

Washingtonpost.com: Space Exploration - 0 views

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    Though this article is more than ten years old, the story of a Mars orbiter crashing because of forgetting to convert between English and metric units is a great example to use in class.
Marissa Utterberg

Logarithmic Word Problems - 0 views

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    Story problems using logarithms & exponents from "purple math"
helenebean76

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians: DALE SE... - 0 views

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    Great anecdotal book to use in math class.
Kim Ammons

The Learning Network - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our Opinion questions, take our News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try our Test Yourself questions, complete a Fill-In or read our Poetry Pairings.
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    The Learning Network is a blog maintained by the New York Times which includes daily lesson plans and "test yourself" questions across all subject areas which relate to current NY Times stories.
Kim Ammons

The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED - YouTube - 0 views

  • In which John explains the education continuum and why math and literature both help us understand the universe in surprisingly similar ways.
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    Famous author John Green explains how math and literature are not actually so different from each other, because they both have the same end goal of helping us to understand our place in the universe.  "Math people, let me tell you that imaginary stories can be every bit as intellectually engaging as imaginary numbers, and literature people, I am here to tell you that set theory is every bit as fascinating and moving and beautiful as The Great Gatsby."
moorepowers

The 3 Saddest Mathematics Love Stories - 0 views

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    a quick math joke for the students
Kim Ammons

MATHEMATICS - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    This links to The Learning Network for the NYTimes. Here you can find lesson plans that connect to current events. (You can search by topic.)
Kim Ammons

Education Week: Qualified Math Teachers Elusive for Struggling Students, Studies Find - 0 views

  • In many schools in the United States, students struggling the most in mathematics at the start of high school have the worst odds of getting a qualified teacher in the subject, new research finds. Succeeding in freshman-level mathematics is critical for students to stay on track to high school graduation, with students who make poor grades in math in 8th and 9th grades more likely to leave school entirely.
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    Two new studies show that in average- and low-performing schools, students in the low-level math classes are significantly less likely to have a qualified math teacher than those students in the high-level classes.
Kim Ammons

Beale Papers | Cipher Mysteries - 0 views

  • In 1885, a short pamphlet was published containing a strangely compelling story - a kind of cross between Edgar Allan Poe and the Wild West. It claimed to record a letter written in 1822 by a Thomas Jefferson Beale to a Mr Morriss, which in turn claimed to contain three encoded texts (now known as ‘B1′, ‘B2′, and ‘B3′) describing the location and beneficiaries of a huge treasure haul hidden in Bedford County, Virginia during 1819 and 1821.
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    I read about these papers in my trade book for this course (The Code Book by Simon Singh), and I almost ripped my hair out when I found out they were unsolved!  Some evidence points to it being a hoax while other evidence points to its genuineness.  What do you think?  Can you take a crack at it?
Kim Ammons

Authentic Inquiry Maths: Authentic Inquiry Maths - An Explanation - 0 views

  • Did you ever read a book called “The Number Devil”  by Hans Magnus Enzensberger? If you ever see a copy of it, grab it and have a look. In chapter one, Robert, the hero of the story, meets the Number Devil. The Number Devil explains to Robert that knowing a little bit of arithmetic, such as addition and subtraction, is quite useful for when the batteries of your calculator run out but really it has little to do with mathematics. How often do teachers fail to grasp the distinction? How often do we overstate the importance of the “skills” that we fail to recognize the importance of their application? It’s like a football team that focuses so much energy on their training sessions that they forget to turn up to play their game.
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    This is probably my favorite link I've come across in the past two weeks:  a math education blog about basing lessons around authentic inquiry rather than learning "skills."  I anticipate looking back at this blog a lot throughout my career!
knightofthebroho

Graphing Stories - 15 seconds at a time - 0 views

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    hands on graphing activities
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