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Mathematics and Fashion Design
At IADT I teach a lot of Fashion Design students and I know that they need to be really good at math for all of the measuring that they have to do for their patterns and whatnot. However, how to get them engaged in the part of math that isn’t as directly applicable is sometimes…
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My Bamboo Pen and Touch
I'm really excited about my new Bamboo Pen and Touch. I can tell you one thing: My students were definitely jealous when I walked into the classroom yesterday and started setting up. They saw how great it was and they all wanted to try it out and get it themselves — Especially when they realized…
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Social Learning Environment
Today has been a terrific day for the most part. It was final exam day, but instead of grading exams as the students turned them in (which I probably should have so that they would be done), I spent the day surfing the Internet for new ideas to use for next semester. And here are…
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Math Vocabulary Becomes Art
I was researching the best way to use maps to introduce the topic of ordered pairs to a beginning algebra class, when I stumbled upon something totally different, and totally unique: A website called Wordle that takes text and turns it into JAVA created art. I actually threw the RSS feed for this website into their…
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Making Math Fun
I was having a discussion with someone today about making math more fun, and a few websites popped into my mind that I haven’t shared on here before. Let me give you a quick rundown of what I think are a few unique resources (all free, of course): Exploring Space Science Mathematics (http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/MathDocs/spacemath.html) – This…
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Math Comic Strips
One point this semester I wanted to have students create comic strips about math. I tried creating one of my own one morning at 4 AM, but was unsuccessful. My first attempt at a good one came just a few minutes ago, and I thought that I would post it here for inspiration of what…
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