Explaining the square root of i in the most pleasant way – The Joy of Mathematics
Ok mathematics people, how is it?
My favorite line, “Just beat the Euler out of it…”
Source: Fact Check Tools Google has a cool Fact Check Explorer, which allows you to enter a search term and it will show how that term is portrayed online and what facts are true. This would be a great starting point when investigating sources of information.
Source: Free stock photos · Pexels Much like Unsplash and LibreStock, Pexels is another repository of free photos. What it adds is free video clips that you can use. I am a little hesitant to share Pexels, some of the photos may be unacceptable in your school setting. Use caution when using the site with…
Source: Write an If-Then Adventure Story – Applied Digital Skills If you haven’t realized, I like interactive fiction (IF) and have written several posts on creating IF. Someone at Google likes is to because Google has created an entire lesson plan on creating IF in Google Slides. Although it is broken up into 4 lessons,…
6 Truths About Technology in Education I recently had the opportunity to Keynote the University of Pennsylvania Literacy Network’s Winter Symposium. Penn Literacy Network founder Mort Botel (who was also a former President of the International Reading Association) wrote one of the most influential works in my teaching career, “The Plainer Truths of Teaching/Learning/Assessing Across the Curriculum“;…
Math trauma manifests as anxiety or dread, a debilitating fear of being wrong. This fear limits access to life paths for many people, including school and career choices. While math trauma has multiple sources, there are some that parents and teachers have power to influence directly: outdated ideas of what it means to be good at math. These…
Source: Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 – YouTube Unfortunately, the TensorFlow Lite kit is out of stock. Once it’s back in stock, $45 is a reasonable price to get students started with machine learning.