This hangs in our department office.
I await the opportunity to exclaim “It’s already 
Appreciation
Appreciation Student Work Teaching
Math Haiku
There are many reasons I personally love to write, and as a math teacher, I love getting my students writing about math.
One easy way to do this is to have students write math-themed haiku. It’s a simple exercise, it gets students thinking about math in a different way, and the elegance and efficiency of the style is reminiscent of mathematics itself!
So enjoy some math-themed haiku from my Calculus students.
| Solving math problems
Getting lost along the way. You’re on the right track. |
Mathematicians
Must always seek out patterns To make connections. |
| Limit of a curve.
Tangent at infinity. Straight line asymptote. |
Triangles are shapes
They have sharp, pointy edges Don’t let them poke you. |
Got a good math haiku? Let’s hear it!
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Challenge NYT
Math Quiz: NYT Learning Network
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/2011/10/19/test-yourself-math-oct-19-2011/
This question is about the costs of providing educational technologies, such as the math software Cognitive Tutor, to students in the United States.
Application Geometry
Geometry of Pasta
This is a fun slideshow of images from architect George Legendre’s book “Pasta by Design”
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/using-his-noodle/
The slideshow, from the on-line New York Times Style magazine, shows a few different renderings of pasta shapes. The book, apparently, contains actual cooking directions as well as these technical schematics.
It appears as though Legendre used a graphing utility like Mathematica or Maple to sketch out his pastas. A creative, and fun, application of this technology!
Representation Resources
History of Mathematical Symbols
This is a great resource: a brief history of many mathematical symbols.
http://jeff560.tripod.com/mathsym.html
Ever wonder where the symbol for 
There’s all that, and much more! Although, I would like to know more about the bar used to represent repeating decimals.