Resources

Classroom Resource: Topical Applications of Mathematics

This is a small but useful collection of classroom resources built around applications of mathematics from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching.

http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/resources/topical/

There are lesson plans and student handouts built around topics like Carbon Footprint, Popular Baby Names, Rankings in Sports, and Physical Fitness, among many others.

There are definitely some interesting ideas and resources here, to help bring these topics into your math classroom and to your students!

By patrick honner, 15 yearsOctober 29, 2011 ago

Math Lesson: Fantasy Football

My latest contribution to the New York Times Learning Network is a Math Lesson designed around a simple Fantasy Football-style game.

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/put-me-in-coach-getting-in-the-quantitative-game-with-fantasy-football/

In this lesson, students use data, statistics, and a novel matchup metric to evaluate players and choose their teams.

As the results come in every week, students can refine their strategies and try to make more accurate projections!

By patrick honner, 15 yearsOctober 27, 2011 ago

Challenge Resources

Polygonal Oddities

This is a crazy collection and categorization of mathematical oddities.

http://www.recmath.org/PolyCur/p6odd/index.html

Here, the word oddity has a specific, technical mathematical meaning: an oddity is a figure with at least one line of symmetry that is made up of an odd number of copies of some polygon.

I’ve never heard of oddities before, and I learned a lot of new vocabulary words while exploring this page: polyform, hexapent, and quinquerotary, to name a few!

By patrick honner, 15 yearsOctober 25, 2011 ago

Resources Teaching

Collection of Science Demonstrations

This is an amazing resource: a collection of science demonstrations from Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstration Services.

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/catalog

There are hundreds of demonstrations in the archive. Each entry includes an in-depth description of the scientific principle(s) on display in the demonstration, as well as detailed instructions on how to execute the demo.

Topics include Newtonian Mechanics, Light and Optics, and Thermal Physics. There is also a collection of mathematical demonstrations, as well as a small set of videos.

And be sure to check out their Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/NatSciDemos

By patrick honner, 15 yearsOctober 22, 2011 ago

Representation Resources