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28 December, 2012 Vol. 17, No. 52
THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS
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Visual Patterns | 2012 in Numbers
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Middle school math teacher Fawn Nguyen has just launched a
site of visual patterns. Challenge your students to extend her
patterns and express them algebraically by following the
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Nguyen recently reflected on her use of the Problems of the
Week in another Forum newsletter -- the quarterly PoWerful
Ideas. Check out her "Teachers' Corner":
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Now taking place: math education conversation of the day
"Here are the ratings through week 16. The predictions earlier
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outperforming those of Elliot Harrison on his nfl.com blog."
- Scott, posted to the
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2012 IN NUMBERS
http://www.nature.com/news/366-days-an-interactive-journey-through-2012-in-numbers-1.12041
The journal Nature has posted a "numerical guide to the year's
scientific events." Scroll down the page for a quantitative
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- Creatures Great and Small
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- Nuclear Power after Fukushima
- Physics Wins Big
- The Solar System and Beyond
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"Eric C. and Mitchell Z., both of Highlands Elementary, make
some lists of possible distances. It's a different form of
guess and check, and they both reached their conclusion in
slightly different ways. Some students made their jobs easier
by dividing. Still another variation involved finding the
average speed...."
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- Annie, commenting on the FunPoW's latest solution
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<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/366-days-an-interactive-journey-through-2012-in-numbers-1.12041">http://www.nature.com/news/366-days-</a><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/366-days-an-interactive-journey-through-2012-in-numbers-1.12041">an-interactive-journey-through-2012-in-numbers-1.12041</a>
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Creatures Great and Small
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Human Limits
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Nuclear Power after Fukushima
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