New resource at NCTM's Illuminations, an activity that parallels proof structure with the structure of jokes.
But the main reason for this post is to spread the news of their 2010 Illuminations institute. A group of teachers will come together to write new and interesting lessons. Only open to K-12 teachers, so I'm out. But you could be in! Find out more. There's a stipend...
From the always entertaining sometimes profane xkcd.
"Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." - Kurt Vonnegut
"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor." - Robertson Davies
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Friday, November 6, 2009
Golden Math Cartoon & Math Teachers at Play 19
I had to post this. I'm trying to help edit a collection of extension activities for Geometry being put together by teams of students under Char Beckmann for the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (The Sum More books - more as they become available.) One of the activities involves cutting up a cartoon and then trying to arrange it in order to make the idea of arranging arguments in order in a proof. Long ramble, here's the cartoon: (Click for full size)

Their take on a pi joke. Pretty good for 9 and 10, eh? I inked it, and was told I boffed Fiddlestick's mouth in the last frame. They did a great job putting in clues as to what comes next.
Math Teachers at Play 19 (back on numbering) came out last Friday. My contribution was Area Block. The carnival is moving to a monthly schedule, which I think will be good. What was most fascinating to me:
Math Teachers at Play 19 (back on numbering) came out last Friday. My contribution was Area Block. The carnival is moving to a monthly schedule, which I think will be good. What was most fascinating to me:
- Maria Anderson, just up the road in Muskegon, is doing amazing work with technology in a math for elementary teachers class. I've got to meet her sometime!
- Jason Dyer's post on a reading experiment was interesting. (I wonder if it has to do with this cognitive miser issue. (Not a MTAP link.)
- Kendra at the Pumpkin Patch had a cute, quick sum game.
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