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Mathematician, math teacher, math enthusiast, math/art-ist. Universal humanizer.
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Fun Fact: I don't even think you NEED that information to solve this problem! 🤯
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Of course I did some nudging in a particular direction, but I think that I was able to keep it to a minimum, so that the students felt like they owned most of the ideas.
Anyway, it was great, and I will definitely be doing this at the end of every year of Algebra II Honors going forward.
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And a pretty good proportion of the students were appropriately wowed & proud of what they'd accomplished. 🥳
And, as promised, it was a zero-tech adventure. Just 16 people, in a room, talking about problem-solving ideas, and using what they'd learned.
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I only just realized this past weekend—after teaching this course for many, many years—that we actually had all of the tools we needed (namely summation notation, the sum-of-squares formula, end behavior of rational functions) to solve this problem that is normally relegated to Calculus classes.
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bsky.app/profile/unso...
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I tripped and fell. Scraped a knee and an elbow real good.
Miraculously stayed pretty dry, though.
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Just skimmed the thread. Absolute self-parody at times.
Full disclosure, I do cringe at "I don't teach students. They teach me." Sorry, words actually mean things. If you "don't teach students" then you are not doing your job.
Maybe say "My students teach me just as much as I teach them" instead?
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I'll just tell myself that NOT reading it is good for my blood pressure
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Understood. I'm a mathematician and I like finding general, broadly-applicable solutions. 😁
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But also to make the point that we don't necessarily need technology (graphing software, animations, sliders, etc.) to illuminate this material and yield "Aha!" moments.
So, yeah, watch this space.
Hopefully my execution does my idea justice.
#iTeachMath
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I got an idea for the 2nd day (this Tue) in the car earlier today, and I am really excited about it.
All I'll say right now is that it will be a completely screen-free class—mainly because once some students learn that they will not explicitly be tested on what we're doing, they will check out.
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My only hesitation was that if you'd asked me the question the other way around—what is the official language of Andorra—I would have said Basque.
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I'll try without looking... Andorra?
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I am convinced that students who eschew using AI in their schoolwork—or at the very least use it sparingly/responsibly/thoughtfully—will have a major advantage over their peers in their professional lives, because of the many skills and abilities they will have developed in themselves.
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I don't ask you to "go from A to B" for my own entertainment, or because I want to see who can get there the fastest, or because I just like telling people what to do.
I ask because of what I want/hope/expect you to LEARN IN THE PROCESS.
When you bypass the process, you bypass the learning.
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Oh absolutely it does 😁
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I got 14… 🤔
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I think some minor adjustments need to be made, since I think the answer is even 😬
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I know that there’s no guarantee that they ever will, I’m just basically balancing the _probability_ that they will—which steadily increases over time—with my impatience
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Great, I'm Pope Melon V 🙄🍈
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4) Finally, connect the hidden (dotted) edges, like so. (You might find it easier to draw the hidden edges first, and of course that's fine.)
Voilà! Easy peasy!
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3) Now remove the center point, and connect the visible (solid) edges, like so:
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2) Now add another set of six points whose distance to the center is 𝜙≈1.62 times the distance from the first six to the center. (You'll just have to eyeball it. I thought of it as "a little more than half again" in each direction.)
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1) Start by creating an isometric array of seven points.
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At the time he watched a fair amount of Nerf-mod YouTube videos 🤷♂️