mathematics
Mathematics of Elections
There’s no better time to be a stats junkie than election time!
A great site for families looking into “voting mathematics” is www.votepair.ca. The actual purpose of this site is to arrange strategic “vote swapping,” but the arguments presented in favour of this controversial practice (and the comments left by visitors to the site) really do [...]
Homeschooling Horizons 2 part article
I have a 2 part article coming out in the September and October editions of Homeschooling Horizons magazine. Here’s the premise:
This is a two-part series that puts forth the hypothesis that in our attempts to make math approachable and relevant to children, we have come to revere “concrete” math teaching tools when we should be [...]
Combining pop culture with numerical literacy
I thought I’d share one of my new favourite websites: GraphJam
What could be more fun than making a pie chart, bar graph or map? This site encourages readers to download templates for maps, graphs, charts, venn diagrams etc. and create your own visual representations of song lyrics, popular sayings or whatever’s on your mind
like this:
or [...]