The Yukon Education Math Snippet For September – Friday, October 3, 2014
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Second Grade Map Project Ideas
Second grade map project ideas to correlate with any elementary social studies map skills lesson plan.
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Pascal's Triangle Activities
Pascal's Triangle questions and activities for the classroom.
Abclifeliteracy.com
November is financial literacy month!
http://abclifeliteracy.ca/mm/november-financial-literacy-month
Annenberg Learner
ASCD
The international education association dedicated to providing programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner.
A Fermi type problem and dynamic graphic estimating the total number of swings Derek Jeter has taken in his MLB career (he recently retired)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/14/sports/baseball/jeter-swings.html
Submitted by: Patrick Wadge
Some of you might remember seeing a TED talk by Arthur Benjamin, a self-described "mathemagician". Recently he gave an hour long performance at the World Science Festival. You can find it at:
http://youtu.be/baxOXLN23GI
He goes into a little more detail about his methods, and answers questions at the end of the video.
Submitted by: Kelvin Dueck
A Radiation Exposure Chart
https://xkcd.com/radiation/
The scales that they chose were interesting.
Also check out the dose from your cell phone (banana phone).
Submitted by: Tim Pelton
Calculators
Android: Wabbitemu https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Revsoft.Wabbitemu&hl=en
www.desmos.com/calculator
For iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/graphing-calculator-by-desmos/id653517540?mt=8
For iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/graphing-calculator-by-desmos/id653517540?mt=8
http://education.ti.com/en/us/software/search/ti-84-plus-family-ti-83-plus-family#view=math-apps
Submitted by: Various BC educators
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