This week: School’s out (or almost), but summer is just beginning!!! / Global Math Department

This week: School's out (or almost), but summer is just beginning!!!

Edited By Sahar Khatri @khatrimath

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Online Professional Development Sessions

Tonight, be sure to check back in for Sara VanDerWerf (@saravdwerf) as she presents The Pursuit of 100% Engagement: Practical ideas to get you closer to this goal. Learn how to increase the number of students talking in your classroom and the quality of what they say. Tune in here.

Last week we were on a hiatus, be sure to check out tonight’s webinar.

Kicking Summer Off #MTBoS Style!

Summer is great for catching up on your reading. Whether it’s on the beach, on the Eurorail, or on the couch, what’s better than kicking off your summer by rediscovering your favorite blogs?

Discovering some new(ish) ones! Here are some suggestions from around the #MTBoS…

Recently, Mark Chubb began blogging. Mark has been an active member of the M and T parts of the #MTBoS, but now we welcome him into the BoS! Mark’s most recent post asks one of our favorite questions!
Kendra Lomax is already pretty famous around the interwebs, but she has also begun blogging in the past year! She’s taking ideas from the #MTBoS and pointing them at our youngest mathematicians!
Ryan Dent created a fantastic website full of amazing resources, but he’s also posted his first blog post as well!
You may know Melynee Naegele from her work helping to organize #ElemMathChat, but she has also posted a wonderful reflection about diving head first into the #MTBoS waters!
Ann Durham, who has participated in and hosted #SwDMathChat also has begun blogging within the past year. Here she writes about the evolution of her PLN. More recently, we have seen #SwDMathChat participant, Karen, who blogs here, dip her toe in the mathematical waters of twitter as well.

Finally, Amie Albrecht, who started her blog here, and Sarah Caban, who is now blogging here, got the Zager stamp of approval for their new forays into the blogging world!

So this summer, kick back, relax, and enjoy these new(ish) voices in the world of blogging!

~by Andrew Gael (@bkdidact)

Hit the Groovy Road

Happy Summer! If you hit the road this summer, keep your eyes peeled for creative designs (and engineering) that were the result of some crafty mathematical thinking.

My favorite podcast, 99% Invisible, posted an article on highways with rumble strips that produce songs as cars drive over them. Before you click on the link below, I encourage you as you’re reading to think of all the beautiful math behind the design of these rumble strips. One engineer mentions the importance of precision and that being off by more than 5 millimeters could produce incorrect notes.

See the complete post titled, Groovy Roads Turn Functional Rumble Strips into Musical Highways.

New to 99% Invisible? I’ve put together my favorite episodes here.
Warning: they’re fun and addicting!

~ by Andrew Stadel (@mr_stadel)

Problem Solving Fun!

School’s out, but as we know the work continues for teachers! This summer I will be keeping my eye out for new posts from Lisa Winer (@Lisaqt314) who is creating a problem solving workbook for her Problem Solving Seminar that students will be assigned each week. She’s pulling problems from a variety of resources including the #MTBoS and NCTMs journals. She just released Chapter 0 that outlines some expectations and the first problem set! Check it out and share some thoughts and feedback with her if you are so inclined,

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