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Monday Must Reads: Volume 44

It’s Monday yet again! That means it’s time to round-up as much of the awesomeness of twitter as possible. I hope you enjoy this peek at what I found inspiring this week. As more and more schools finish for the summer, these posts will likely become more and more infrequent until school starts back up in the fall.

Outdoor Geometric Constructions

Petteri Forselius, a math teacher in Finland, inspires with some awesome outdoor constructions.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/PEFORSE/status/999928071321989120

A Number Fact About 439

Chris Smith shares a fun number fact. If you’re not subscribed to his free weekly email newsletter, you are missing out! Send Chris an email at aap03102@gmail.com to sign up!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/aap03102/status/1000639673415303168

Visualizing the Multiplication Table

Roger Mansuy shares a photo of a great, visual multiplication table.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/roger_mansuy/status/1000058528499949569

Tangled Sticks Puzzle

Grabarchuk Puzzles shares a fun tangling sticks puzzle to challenge your students with.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Grabarchuk/status/1000488725242109952

Log Lattice Puzzle

Max Goulding highlights an awesome logarithm based lattice puzzle.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/goulding_pi/status/929321648041361408

Maths Revision Biscuits (or Cookies)

Ella Dickson blows my mind with these maths biscuits (or math cookies for American readers).

Image Source: https://twitter.com/elladickson/status/999686399661084672

Alphabet Probability Fact

Ed Southall shares a fun probability fact.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/solvemymaths/status/1000291407674920960

Unpacking Objectives

Jonathon Smith offers up a way to help students unpack the lesson objective. I like how he makes the distinction between what students need to do and know.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mrsmith_HMFC/status/973372555900923904

Word Problem Palooza

I love how Sarah Suydam makes word problems into an event to be anticipated.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ms_suydam/status/930132958270324738

Math Symbol Name Project

James Edstrom shares a fun, math-y end of year project where students write their names in math symbols.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/edstrom_james/status/999763803490471940

Quarter the Cross Dot Challenge

David Butler takes Quarter the Cross to an entirely new level.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DavidKButlerUoA/status/999498078586454016

Letters of Advice to Future Students

Over the years, I’ve given the assignment to write a letter of advice to future students. But, Mrs. Stelzer takes this project to an entirely new level.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/TheCalcoholic/status/999623863255355393

Circle Vocabulary Art Project

Ms. Grove shares some awesome student work on a circle vocabulary project.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MathyMissGrove/status/999666831857209345

Rings and Strings Math Art

Check out these Rings and Strings projects from Liza Goldberg!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/LizaDGoldberg/status/999332600673120258

Volume by Slicing Project

Sally Cosgrove inspires with a volume by slicing project.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Momma_Cos/status/999342542675169281

Cube Net Activity

Mr Gray shares a creative, hands-on task for working with nets of a cube.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/BucksburnMaths/status/999300020590600192

Calculus Quarter the Cross Task

John Golden combines Quarter the Cross with calculus, and the results are gorgeous!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mathhombre/status/999108328587513856

Dartboard Task

Megan Hayes-Golding shares the power of a math problem to travel and inspire.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mgolding/status/999107629195710464

Tile Design Project

Sarah Rines shares a project where students design tiles to represent topics studied that year. They make for a beautiful display!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/RinesSarah/status/872947427526942720
Image Source: https://twitter.com/RinesSarah/status/874807408710701057

Linking Cube Histograms

I’ve often had students draw histograms when working with experimental/theoretical probability. But, Joe Benforte has inspired me to have students represent the results using linking cubes in the future as they collect their results. This would make it super easy to combine the results of different groups!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ziojoe04/status/998960527924760576

Rational and Negative Exponents WODB

Sean Corey shares a WODB involving both fractional and negative exponents.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrCoreyMath/status/998909600773623808

Geometry Quilt

Check out this geometry quilt that Kim Spek‘s students are sewing!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/kvdspek/status/998581304923959296

Probability Open Middle Task

John Rowe shares a brilliant open middle problem for introducing probability.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrJohnRowe/status/998521723778621440

Until next week, keep sharing your awesome ideas!

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