Friday Five for April 8
Geometry, a novel twist on Match My Graph, and two Calculus activities are what we have in store for you in this week’s Friday Five. But first, we begin with a simple solution to a challenging problem—putting a quadratic function into vertex form.
Friday Five for March 32
The homework notebook of a third-grader in St Paul, MN says that’s the date today, and so it shall be recorded.
We have some delightful mathematical treasures for you on this very last day—and we really mean it—of March 2016: Crickets, Alligators, Parabolas (or are they?) and Number Lines (Middle school teachers, read all the way to the end, please!)
Friday Five for March 25
Many people around the world celebrate Easter this weekend. A much smaller
number of people celebrate the arrival of sale-priced Peeps, which are
inexpensively obtained only after the holiday, to be used
for the purposes of mathematics. We have at least one of these latter types on the teaching faculty here at
Desmos, so be sure to tweet us (or maybe just
him) if you find an
especially good deal!
In the meantime, if you’re not on spring break next week (we sure aren’t!), we have some great stuff you might consider working into your lesson plans. Science (!), logarithms, geometry and modeling—all making up your Friday Five.