Global Math Project Experiences

Overview

Our exemplar topic is the astounding K-12  -and beyond!- story of Exploding Dots and we invite you explore that incredible mathematics with your fabulous students first. And if you when you are ready to try shorter experiences to play with and explore, on a variety of different topics, you’ve come to the right spot!

Slowly we’re building up a library of experiences. ENJOY!

[Further: We would love to learn of your ideas too! Would you like to develop an experience for the world, and present it too? Let us know!]

 

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Lessons

1.0 PENCIL PUSHING: Exploring the joys – and mysteries – of angles in Geometryarrow
1.1 Welcome!arrow
1.2 What is an Angle?arrow
1.3 Putting Pencil-Pushing to Usearrow
1.4 How Many Degrees are in a Martian Circle?arrow
1.5 Turning Once versus Turning Twicearrow
1.6 IT’S ALL A LIE! (Well, only sort of!)arrow
1.7 Pencil-Pushing Inspires Truth Nonethelessarrow
1.8 An Inescapable Areaarrow
1.9 Which Way Did the Bicycle Go? – and other bicycle ponderingsarrow
2.0 GARDEN PATHS: Fractions, Probability, and the Infinitearrow
2.1 Welcome to Garden Strolls (PART I)arrow
2.2 Flipping Coins, Rolling Die, and Such (PART I)arrow
2.3 Infinite Garden Paths (PART I)arrow
2.4 PROBABILITY: A Historic Start (PART II)arrow
2.5 PROBABILITY: What we Choose to Believe (PART II)arrow
2.6 ASIDE: The Infamous Two-Girls Paradox (PART II)arrow
2.7 ASIDE: Does “and” mean “multiply” in Probability Theory? (PART II)arrow
2.8 Infinite Garden Paths – Again! (PART III)arrow
2.9 Infinite Probability Problems (PART III)arrow
3.0 ARE ALL U-SHAPED GRAPHS QUADRATIC?arrow
3.1 Some U-shaped Graphsarrow
3.2 Gravity and Galileo’s Insightarrow
3.3 Sequences – For When You Trust Patterns. (But please don’t trust patterns!)arrow
3.4 Projectiles, Parabolas, and Non-Parabolasarrow
3.5 Debunking Patternsarrow
3.6 Fitting Quadratics to Dataarrow
3.7 ASIDE: Personal Polynomialsarrow
3.8 BONUS SECTION: Other Ways to Play with Sequences – For When You Really Do Trust Patternsarrow
3.9 BONUS SECTION: Theoretical Proofsarrow
4.0 Global Math Week 2021 #gmw2021arrow
4.1 MATH IS ___ Video Contest for Teachers and Club Leaders: INSTRUCTIONSarrow
4.2 MATH IS ___ Student Postersarrow
5.0 COMMUNITY ACTION for Online Resourcesarrow
5.1 WELCOME .. .and START HEREarrow
5.2 EXPLODING DOTS from the Global Math Projectarrow
5.3 JOYFUL MATH JAMBOREES, VIRTUAL PUZZLING, MATH CIRCLES, and MORE!arrow
5.4 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Made Free (or already free!)arrow
5.5 ASK MATHEMATICIANS ANYTHINGarrow
5.6 QUARANTINE ADVICE and THOUGHTSarrow
5.7 FABULOUS ODDS and ENDSarrow
6.0 Three Experiences from Henri Picciotto: NUMBER PYRAMIDS and ADD TILL IT’S PLAID and FRACTIONSarrow
6.1 NUMBER PYRAMIDS: Video and PDFsarrow
6.2 ADD TILL IT’S PLAIDarrow
6.3 A Grid-Paper Approach to Fractionsarrow
7.0 Straight Up Curriculum Math for the 21st Centuryarrow
7.1 Context and Instructionsarrow
7.2 Have a Running Group-Sudoku Puzzle for the Week; Have a Personal Polynomial Too!arrow
7.3 Topic: Graphing Polynomials and Rational Expressionsarrow
7.4 Topic: Sequences – arithmetic and geometricarrow
7.5 Topic: Probabilityarrow
7.6 Topic: The Quadratic Formulaarrow
7.7 Topic: The Story of TRIGONOMETRYarrow
7.8 Partial Fractionsarrow
8.0 Matrices and some Applications: Making Natural Sense of it Allarrow
8.1 Context of these Notesarrow
Protected: 8.2 Matrices and their Arithmeticarrow
Protected: 8.3 Geometric Transformations and Matricesarrow
Protected: 8.4 Practice Problems 1, 2, and 3arrow
Protected: 8.5 The Problem of Large Powers: DIAGONALISATION, and more!arrow
Protected: 8.6 Markov Processesarrow
Protected: 8.7 Coupled Linear Differential Equationsarrow
9.0 College Algebra for Humansarrow
9.1 Chapter Contentarrow
11.0 Pile Splitting: Freaky Fraction, Crazy 1s, Matrices, and More!arrow
11.1 Pile Splittingarrow
Protected: 11.2 Modular Arithmeticarrow
12.0 “Houston: We have a problem!”arrow
12.1 “Houston: We have a problem!” worksheetsarrow
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