brainstorming

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Continuing on my thinking from last time: open-ended-problems I saw notes on an interesting recent talk from @cheesemonkeysf

First Impressions: A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle

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After seeing a recommendation online, this book arrived at the house in the mail yesterday. I started reading it after dinner and was immediately inspired. ...

Factoring Proof

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One of the fun possibilities next year is that we can do problems with polynomials and factoring (at least by the end of the year.) I was reading a post by @...

Ideas for Next Year

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It was a good week for finding inspiration on the internet (and in some books from the library). This is a grab bag of ideas for next year based on what I ha...

2017 Year in Review

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One of the big questions I had going into this year was “Will the Math Club be very different this year? Am I going to continue…

MathCounts Final

16

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Since it was fun Last Year to think about the Math Counts final question, here is the 2017 version:

Questions for Mathematicians

08

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I’ve been prepping for our guest talk from the UW Math Dept. One of the tasks I’ve done is survey the kids to generate questions for the talk. Jayadev Athrey...

Making Explorations Successful

Feb

07

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In a fit of perhaps excessive caution, the district cancelled all after school activities today despite the snow being almost completely melted. So I’m tabl...

1/31 Chessboard Problems or manipulatives on the cheap

Jan

31

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This week’s planning revolved around my desire to pivot away from the more conventional topics of last week. I needed to give the kids more exposure to expo...

Technology

Dec

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I saw a funny ignite talk “Algebra Inferno” the other day comparing disliked teaching practices to the various circles of hell a la Dante.

Continued Fractions Planning

Aug

05

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Summer Odds and Ends

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This is mostly a process update during the quiet days of summer.

Prime Number Planning

05

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I’ve been thinking about what a prime-number themed day would look like based on some questions on Facebook. I’ve done prime related topics here and there bu...

2016 Year in Review

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With another year under my belt, its time to look back and think about what I’ve learned over the process. (Here’s my review from last year: the-year-in-rev...

A quick note on the MathCounts final question

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http://q13fox.com/2016/05/09/seattle-13-year-old-wins-national-math-bee/

What’s the best way to talk about the Pythagorean Theorem?

Apr

03

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I’ve been reading Martin Gardner’s “Gardener’s Workout” recently and came across the following section at the end.

Squaring the Rectangle

Aug

05

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This Tiling Problem published in wordplay by Matt Enlow looks like a great first day activity.

Voronoi Diagrams

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Geometric Translations

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Recently inspired by some posts on problem solving over at problemproblems.wordpress.com I’ve been combing through the geometry problems at gogeometry.blogsp...

The Year In Review

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Now that the last session of the math club is done for the year it seems appropriate to look back and reflect on my experiences. Going into the process, I th...

The problem I’m thinking about right now.

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I worked with my son on this problem last night from AMC8 and I think its really interesting and plays off the previous pentagon problem I had given to the k...

Cool Geometry Problem

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I ran into another problem that I think demonstrates an unexpected and interesting fact

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