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MfA Workshop — Computational Thinking

Tonight I’ll be running a workshop for teachers titled “Building Bridges Through Computational Thinking.”

In the workshop we’ll explore the mathematical and pedagogical benefits in taking a computational approach to mathematics. Through a variety of computational thinking tasks spanning different branches of math, we’ll see how these tasks offer alternate pathways into mathematical ideas, genuine engagement in applied mathematics and mathematical modeling, and opportunities for rich pedagogical variety.

This work is a natural continuation of the work I’ve been doing at the intersection of mathematics and computer science education for the past several years. As always, I’m grateful to be supported by Math for America and MfA’s teacher community in developing and trying out new ideas for students and teachers.

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Critical Issues in Mathematics Education at MSRI

Next week I’m heading to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA to participate in the 2019 Critical Issues in Mathematics Education (CIME) conference.

CIME brings together academics, researchers, industry partners, and teachers to discuss important issues in education. The theme of this year’s conference is mathematical modeling in K-16 education. Here’s a summary of the goals from the conference website.

The CIME workshop on MM will bring together mathematicians, teacher educators, K-12 teachers, faculty and people in STEM disciplines. As partners we can address ways to realize mathematical modeling in the K-12 classrooms, teacher preparation, and lower and upper division coursework at universities. The content and pedagogy associated with teaching mathematical modeling needs special attention due to the nature of modeling as a process and as a body of content knowledge.

I’m proud to be representing K-12 teachers as well as Math for America at this year’s CIME, where I will be presenting as part of the conference’s opening panel along with Jo Boaler, Ricardo Cortez, and Maria Hernandez.

A full schedule and list of speakers is available at the CIME conference website.

UPDATE: The full video of our panel discussion can be seen here.

By MrHonner, ago

MfA Workshop — The Problem with Pentagons

This week I’ll be running a workshop, “The Problem with Pentagons”, for Math for America teachers.

The workshop focuses on the classification of pentagonal tilings of the plane. Although humans have been tiling with polygons for hundreds of years, the answer to the question “Which pentagons can tile the plane?” was only recently answered!

The surprising story of pentagonal tilings spans cultures, centuries, and disciplines. In addition to some beautiful geometry, the story is also filled with lots of twists and turns that illustrate the many ways in which mathematics happens. It’s a wonderful opportunity to bring living, breathing mathematics to our students, and I’m looking forward to discussing the many classroom connections with MfA teachers.

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MfA Workshop — Exploring Modern Discoveries in Mathematics and Science

This week I will be co-facilitating a workshop for teachers, “Exploring Modern Discoveries in Mathematics and Science”, with Thomas Lin, editor-in-chief of Quanta Magazine. We will be running the workshop for a group of Math for America math and science teachers at the MfA offices.

In our workshop we’ll look at ways to connect students and teachers with modern science research and discoveries. We’ll focus on resources from Quanta Magazine, including recent reporting on advances in mathematics, biology, and computer science, as well as some of my Quantized Academy columns.

I’m excited to be working with Tom, who in addition to being the founding editor of Quanta, is also a former teacher. Tom’s desire to make the amazing work being done by Quanta’s journalists and writers more accessible to teachers and students led to the development of my Quantized Academy column last year.

Be sure to check out Quanta Magazine, and you can find my Quantized Academy articles here.

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MfA Workshop — Stats and Sims in Scratch

Tonight I’ll be running a workshop, “Stats and Sims in Scratch”, for teachers at Math for America. In this workshop we will develop basic computational tools for exploring elementary and advanced problems in probability, and implement and apply statistical procedures via programming.

This workshop is a product of my ongoing efforts to integrate mathematics and computer science in my classrooms. The study of probability creates natural opportunities to bring in tools from computer science, which create alternate pathways to understanding concepts in probability through generating, managing, and analyzing data.

I will also be presenting on this topic at the NCTM Annual Meeting in Washington, DC in April of this year. Feel free to contact me for more information about this particular workshop or my other work with mathematics and Scratch.

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