Math Hombre

A blog for sharing my math interests on the web, to post new materials for elementary, secondary and teacher ed, and vent mathematical steam when needed. Thanks for visiting!

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Learning Creative Learning

Creative Learning - Week 1 Former student and learning pal Nick Smith found the Creative Learning course from the MIT media lab. It didn...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Pyth On

Mel Bochner, Pythagoras (4) from wikipaintings Arithmetical Design (quite a fun tumblr) posted this beauty today... I thought that th...

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Homework!

I am a homework hypocrite. I have assigned reading Alfie Kohn on homework's worthlessness for homework. (Occasionally a preservice t...

Monday, February 4, 2013

Spirograph 2 - GeoGebra Animation

Okay, I've played with cycloids before . But when Guillermo recently updated his hypocycloid tutorial , it gave me the push to play aga...

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Intellectually Needy

Intro "So does this bore the heck out of you?" a student asked me. The problem is that this was after two days of doing the B...

Curse You, Nate Silver

OK, not really. I am a big fan of the Silver one, and his application of quantfied reasoning to realms rife with superstition. But his Sup...

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Too Puzzling

The content objective: adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, for 5th grade students. What game? On short notice... I ...

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