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Wolfram Alpha Discovery
Okay, technically it was a workshop at ICTCM, but with 30 math faculty in one room, all armed with computers, I couldn’t help but make it a discovery and brainstorming session too. I’m a firm believer...
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NYT Opinionator Series about Math
For a few months now, the NYT Opinionator Blog has been hosting a series of pieces that do a phenomenally good job of explaining mathematics in layman’s terms. The latest article is about Calculus...
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TED Talk on Wolfram Alpha
The talk is titled “Computing a Theory of Everything” Possibly Related Posts: What does Math Teaching look like in 2020? WolframAlpha Facebook Report Data Sleuthing Level Up: Video Games for Learning...
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David McCandless: Data Detective
I just finished watching the TED Talk by David McCandless called “The Beauty of Data Visualization” and it is stunningly awesome! In the talk, he discusses the importance of understanding the...
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Shifting Assessment in a World with WolframAlpha
I let my students use Wolfram Alpha when they are in class and when they are doing their homework (um, how would I stop them?). Because of this, I’ve had to shift how I assess on more formal...
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Using Math to Understand the Future
Futurist Peter Bishop was one of the keynote presenters at MichMATYC 2010 this year. He spoke to us about what a futurist does, and shifted our paradigms about how to look at data trends to one that...
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Battling Bad Science (and Statistics)
If you ever needed a REASON to calculate the highest point of a parabola that opens downward, here’s one. Possibly Related Posts: WolframAlpha Facebook Report Data Sleuthing Level Up: Video Games for...
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Add Graphs In The World to Courses
Now you can add Graphs in the World to your courses in the LMS! Create a new “page” in your course. Open the editor on that page. Go to the HTML Editor on that page. Paste the following text and then...
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Contemporary Algebra Collection (new resources 2/4/2019)
The Contemporary Algebra Collection now contains 28 activities spread from basic math to exponential functions. All of these activities are based on contemporary examples from the world (e.g. Snapchat,...
View ArticleThese are a Few of my Favorite Graphs
I’ve been collecting graphs at GraphsInTheWorld for about a year now, and I put together a little “celebration of graphs” song for the AMATYC Conference. If you have 4 minutes, you can celebrate the...
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