Microworld: Green Globs

My all-time favorite piece of software is Graphing Equations and Green Globs. The program has several components but Green Globs is what stole my heart.  Figure 11-7 The game is simple to understand. When you start up the novice game, thirteen globs appear randomly scattered on a coordinate grid. (See figure 11-7.) The student’s goal…

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Short Math Stories with a Surprise Twist

I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying watching exciting reruns of football games from the NFL and College games. Also basketball NBA and College. I grew up in Pittsburgh so I’m still a huge Pirate and Steeler fan. I recently watched the 7th game of the 1971 World Series between the Pirates and Baltimore….

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An Online Math Activity: Pool Paths

April 1, 2020 With the advent of the Coronavirus and closed schools, NCTM has made available webinars for their upcoming 100 days of professional learning starting today, April 1. I tried to sign up for the opening session this evening but it was already closed out. A thousand teachers were already signed up. Can you…

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