We are educators interested in curating & collecting lessons that draw on young students' powerful visual & kinaesthetic capacities
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29 Apr 2020
Learning about angles using a dynamic fan model. Use the fan to compare the angles formed by dancers’ arms and to orient yourself on land. sfu.ca/geometry4yl.html
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9 Apr 2020
Another activity to develop spatial, holistic reasoning in mathematics. Thinking of the changing phases of the moon and how they relate to circles. Two Circles: sfu.ca/geometry4yl.html🙏 @dpscher and Quincy Wang. #bcedchat #bcamt #geometry
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6 Apr 2020
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1 Apr 2020
Exploring and constructing polgons while meeting new geometric vocabulary and making shapes you have never seen before! A Plethora of Polygons: sfu.ca/geometry4yl. #bcamt #bcedchat
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31 Mar 2020
We are working on new activities for elem school kids... interesting, engaging & deep mathematics... The first one is up: sfu.ca/geometry4yl.html. Thanks Sandy Bakos, @annetterouleau, Victoria Guyevskey, Rebecca Cohen. Check out Symmetry & Triangles activities. #bcedchat #bcamt.
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24 Mar 2020
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#STEAMdays T=Tech Tuesday ... explore block symmetry with Web Sketch Pad tasks from @geometry4yl #thanks sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/geome… using sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/geome…
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20 Feb 2020
Exploring tessellations with websketchpad: some are familiar and some are chellenging our definition about no overlap and no gap.
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31 Aug 2019
Or, in the colour calculator, 28513/99999 with table width 6 for the left and table width 5 for the right. Try! sineofthetimes.org/experimen…
31 Aug 2019
A five egg pattern in rows of six, and then in rows of five.
#PairedEggCrates at @MathOnAStick
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31 Aug 2019
Desirée Patterson uses geometric transformations of photographs—anamorphic like—to explore human impact on nature. See her Anthropocene art at the King Edward station!
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10 Jul 2019
Enjoying shooting lightning bolts from my fingertips to represent multiplication arrays using the new TouchTimes app on my iPad. touchcounts.ca/touchtimes #mtbos #iteachmath
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25 May 2019
Making symmetry with some two handed rope work at the Fröbel museum in Bad Blankenburg
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29 Mar 2019
For when you need to make a straight line on the board: unroll the string from the device, which coats it with chalk, pin to board and give the string a quick tug. Ta da! Who needs rulers anyway?
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5 Feb 2019
For when you need a break from Platonic solids... diversity of faces so attractive...
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25 Jan 2019
2000 BCE Assyrian circles and triangles. Our constant companions for more than four thousand years. .
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25 Dec 2018
Moiré dynamic geometry by Takahiro Kurashima. This “poemotion” turns circles into@polygons.
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12 Dec 2018
Froebel’s first gift: balls of yarn. Sensory experiences of lines, loops, crossings, insides, boundaries... all lures into geometry
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11 Dec 2018
Some tired circles... at least they won’t roll away! By French artist Bernar Venet...
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