Wednesday August 16 mini Twitter Math Camp NYC Friday August 25 New Visions for Public Schools miniconference, NYC
Winning the Math Homework Challenge
Designed to help parents help their children with the content and psychology of Math, this book focuses on visual models that support Math avoiders and can help them become "Math Aficionados". Author Catheryne Draper "has been learning from her students for more than half a century" and she shares wisdom and advice for families to rock Math homework! The top To Dos include accepting mistakes, trusting your child and being willing to learn along with your child rather than require of yourself that you learn it first.
After
two errors were found in June, a third error was found on the New York State Geometry Regents in July as seen in
Newsday: New Formula for Regents Exam. Ben Catalfo, a 16 year old student from Long Island who found the error, created a campaign:
Quizlet is a free study app that mimics flashcards with 6 types of games including traditional flashcards, Learn, Spell, Test, Match and Gravity (an Asteroids type game). There are over 184,519,000 sets of Quizlets available from
196 World Capitals to
Human Body all 206 Bones to
Organic Chemistry to create your own!
Quizlet Learn creates a study plan and help students stick to their strategy with reminders :)
For $35/year, teachers can subscribe to
Quizlet Teacher to track student progress and customize
Quizlet Live. To deal with the infusion of tech into education, there is an
Honor Code that includes not using Quizlet on your phone during a test and advises against posting teacher content without permission.
Brain Puzzler
With one straight cut a cake can be sliced into two pieces.
A second cut that crosses the first one will make four pieces.
A third cut can produce as many as seven pieces.
What is the largest number of pieces that can be produced with six straight cuts?
Answer to July's Brain Puzzler:
Click here for the solution to July's Brain Puzzler
