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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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By MrHonner, 7 years7 years ago

Probability Resources Statistics Teaching Technology

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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By MrHonner, 7 years7 years ago

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MfA Workshop — Mathematics and Scratch

Tonight I’ll be running a workshop at the Math for America offices in New York City on Mathematics and Scratch.

I’ve been working to incorporate more computing into my mathematics courses, and Scratch, the free, web-based, block-based programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab, has become an invaluable part of my approach to teaching basic mathematical computing and simulation.

In my workshop participants will engage in elementary mathematical explorations in Scratch that span the mathematics curriculum, from Algebra and Geometry to Calculus and Statistics. We’ll solve some mathematics problems using computer science and some computer science problems using mathematics! And I hope that teachers will leave with some ideas about how to get their own students making math in Scratch.

After the workshop, I’ll be posting links and resources here.

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By MrHonner, 8 years ago

MfA — Math and Scratch Workshop

Below are links to activities and resources from my workshop Mathematics and Scratch at the Math for America offices in NYC in January, 2017.

For more information, you can contact me here.

Introductory Activity

Function Examples

Function as List Example

Monte Carlo Area Approximation

Random Walks

By MrHonner, 8 years8 years ago

Workshop

Below are links to the three basic simulation challenges presented in my 2016 Scratch@MIT workshop Mathematical Simulation in Scratch. Instructions for each challenge can be found on the project page, and in comments inside.