Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/test-yourself-math-april-16-2012/
This question is based on the current oil-export capacity of Iran. How long would it take Iran to export a billion dollars’ worth of oil?
As previously noted, there is plenty of mathematical fun to be had at Ikea!
And if taking pictures of cool tilings gets dull, why not trying tiling the plane yourself!
I enjoy making students draw diagrams like these in their notes. You’ll never understand how difficult it is to draw mutually tangent circles until you try to do it yourself!
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We always end up arguing about stuff like this in my class.
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Here is a math lesson I put together for the New York Times Learning Network that is built around parsing income information and properly filling out tax forms.
This lesson supplies students with cost-of-living scenarios and mocked-up W2 and 1099-INT forms and challenges them to work their way through Federal Form 1040EZ.
A few older students might like to try this, too!