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Workshop — Bringing Modern Math into the Classroom

This Thursday I’ll be running my workshop “Bringing Modern Math into the Classroom” for teachers at Math for America.

In this webinar participants will engage with mathematics at the edge of our understanding. We’ll look at examples of math that’s being invented and discovered right now, and see how it connects to what is happening in classrooms.

We’ll play games, explore patterns, and make conjectures in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. The goal is for participants to leave not only with a better understanding of how school math and research math are connected, but how to better communicate that connection to students.

This workshop is based on the work I’ve done in my Quantized Academy column for Quanta Magazine. I’ve run similar workshops in past years, and I recently gave a talk on this topic at the NCTM 2020 Virtual Conference. But this week’s workshop is all new, and I’m looking forward to bringing some new ideas and new math to play around with!

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MfA Workshop – A Crash Course in Geogebra

Today I’ll be facilitating “A Crash Course in Geogebra” as part of Math for America‘s summer professional development series.

In response to the challenges and uncertainty of the upcoming school year, MfA teachers have been sharing ideas and expertise with the community this summer. My experiences using Geogebra during NYC’s emergency remote learning led me to develop this workshop.

Geogebra is an invaluable tool for doing mathematics under normal circumstances, but its versatility as a mathematics environment, a demonstration tool, and an assessment platform is even more important in this era of remote and hybrid learning. In addition to reviewing the basics of Geogebra in the webinar, I’ll also share specific classroom strategies and student project ideas for implementation in either face-to-face or remote/hybrid learning.

As I said recently, I can’t imagine teaching geometry remotely without Geogebra. And while I can imagine teaching geometry face-to-face without it, I wouldn’t want to!

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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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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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