Thursday, May 14, 2015

Surprised By Their Mathematical Thinking

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I have been thinking a lot about mathematical surprise these days.  Specifically, I have been thinking about all the different ways we can ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Critical and Creative Thinking in the Math Classroom (Outtake from OAME Ignite)

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Critical and creative thinking are both essential to doing math.  Yet both are relatively unexplored areas with our young student mathematic...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Roll Up The Win To Win, Odds, Luck, and the Law of Large Numbers

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Pre and post ceremonial losing cup stomp. #timhortons #RollUpTheRim #odds #probability pic.twitter.com/qLz8fd9Wp4 — Matthew Oldridge (...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Breakthroughs, "A-has", and "Finding the Door"

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I highly recommend this article on Yitang "Tom" Zhang's breakthrough on the Twin Primes conjecture. It's readable, inspi...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

10 Good Things

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I was challenged by Brian Aspinall to do a #10goodthings blog post, so here it is. So many good things happened in 2014- reflecting back m...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Slow Down...and Do the Math (Part 1)

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The full text of the problem is missing, but you get the idea- it's a fairly typical seeming growing dot pattern.  Many of these patte...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Equal Signs, Balance, and Timbits (#tmwyk)

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Callum had to start taking the bus to Kindergarten.  When I picked him up the first day, I decided to get him some Timbits as a reward. ...
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