Sometimes, things work out better than imagined. Now that the talk has been given, I am a Desmos Teacher convert. So much so, that I am wondering how to incorporate it into future talks (and classrooms activities) when we return to in-person interactions. The planned activities went smoothly. Each person individually selected an item thatContinue reading “March 3 Day 360: Success!”
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March 1 Day 358: Jumping In With Abandon
Twice now, I have been in a webinar/online conference where a presenter used Desmos Teacher to engage the students online. It is similar to Poll Everywhere in that by sharing a link, the audience can follow the presentation and interact using multiple choice, text boxes, free form drawing, or integrated Desmos explorations. It’s really slick.Continue reading “March 1 Day 358: Jumping In With Abandon”
February 27 Day 356: Golden Section Confession
Did you know that the members of the MAA living in Northern California, Northern Nevada, Hawaii, and Pacific US Islands refer to their local region as the “Golden Section”? (Double entendre fully intended. ) They have a spiral in their logo that is made of golden rectangles (in blue below) containing a classic golden spiralContinue reading “February 27 Day 356: Golden Section Confession”
February 20 Day 349: Florida Celebration
I want to give a shout out to all of the executive officers in the MAA Florida section meeting. They were the test subjects for all the virtual spring MAA section meetings to come. The background. The pandemic has stressed everyone. Several members of the FL MAA executive committee resigned this year because they didContinue reading “February 20 Day 349: Florida Celebration”
February 19 Day 348: Tech Lessons
Despite best intentions, it is critical to test everything…twice. Learning technology limitations the hard way is never fun. It’s like the first time you learn that a shared Google document can only accommodate 100 users. Or that a screen shared from an iPad user does not allow for zoom annotation by others but an iPadContinue reading “February 19 Day 348: Tech Lessons”
February 17 Day 346: The Season of Spring Meetings
The coming weekend marks the first of many MAA Section Meetings to be held this “Spring”. Both the Florida Section (February 19-20) and the Golden Section (representing Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii, February 26-27) are typically held early in the meeting season. I think, so they can boast about their beautiful and temperate weather.Continue reading “February 17 Day 346: The Season of Spring Meetings”
February 16 Day 345: Transcription Errors 2.0
Automatic transcriptions of Zoom recordings can occasionally miss the mark. I’m just going to leave this here and see if anyone one can figure out the statement of the Theorem that Zoom transcribed as follows: Durham sandpoint suddenly G one g to be groups and suppose that you want his own workplace. Do you energyContinue reading “February 16 Day 345: Transcription Errors 2.0”
February 9 Day 338: I Was Today Years Old…
Mindblown! Our world is amazing and I have so much more to learn. Today I learned that you can be in two Zoom meetings at the same time ON THE SAME COMPUTER. ( I haven’t quite figured out the sound controls for two meetings but no one was speaking in the Math meeting as weContinue reading “February 9 Day 338: I Was Today Years Old…”
February 4 Day 333: By the Numbers
As a combinatorialist, I count things. I am participating in a weekly remote mindfulness training through the UW Resiliency Lab and it is a breath of fresh air, literally. Of all the practices I have learned, the one where we count the length of our inhalations and extend it by +2 on the exhalation reallyContinue reading “February 4 Day 333: By the Numbers”
January 23 Day 321: Zoom Refresher
It’s been 321 days since remote teaching in Washington State began. We learned enough to get by and for some people that was sufficient. But as we continue teaching from a distance, I would like to propose there are better ways. And rather than rejecting suggestions out of hand, I ask that you open yourContinue reading “January 23 Day 321: Zoom Refresher”
Math Belongs to All of Us 