It seems like solutions to geometry problems always involve right angles:
Appreciation Resources
Edublog Award Nominees
Here are my nominees for the 2010 Edublog Awards. (The Edublog Awards Homepage)
Best individual blog: James Stanton (http://www.jamestanton.com/)
Best teacher blog: James Stanton (http://www.jamestanton.com/)
Best Individual Tweeter: republicofmath (http://republicofmath.wordpress.com/)
Best resource sharing blog: NYT Learning Network (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/)
Best group blog: NYT Learning Network (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/)
Appreciation Photography
More Math and Vegetables
This array of Brussell sprouts initially demonstrated that 40 divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 4. But after some re-grouping, this was the result.
They look so much better demonstrating that 8 times 5 is 40!
Appreciation Resources
Thanksgiving Calculations
Thanks to WolframAlpha, you can easily compute a wealth of nutritional information based on your Thanksgiving intake!
This hypothetical 1129-calorie dinner plate above is not intended to be an accurate representation of my typical Thanksgiving meal. Indeed, this is not even an accurate representation of my first serving at a typical Thanksgiving dinner. These hypothetical portions are meant to be used for educational purposes only.
Challenge Resources
Get an A
Here’s a nice little math vocabulary quiz from www.sporcle.com entitled “Get an A”.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/puckett86/get_an_A
All the answers are mathematical terms that begin with the letter A, and there’s a nice mix of easy and hard questions.
I did pretty well, but not as well as last time. Apparently I need a student to give a presentation about the conjugate transposes of matrices.