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VT's FREE Newsletter for Educators - Insight, Inspiration and Ideas that Work!
CELEBRATE 21ST OCTOBER - My BRAIN is OPEN
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Philosoraptor
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Hello Everyone,
I had such fun just recently with a kindergarten class. We were working on CELEBRATIONS.
Just the thing for a busy afternoon. We danced and chatted and watch fireworks and then drew wonderful firework pictures.
October 21st is Tri-hexaflexagon Day in honour of the great Mathematician.
I will be travelling to Europe in November to fulfill some speaking engagements and visit a few schools. Hope to catch up with other European readers of VT as well.
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Have a great fornight.
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Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author
Writing is thinking on paper.
William Zinsser, writer and editor (7
Oct 1922-2015)
Amusement is one of the fields of applied math
William F. White,
Q: What is a topologist? A: Someone who cannot distinguish between a doughnut and a coffee cup.
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 Watch the Video Celebration of Mind 2014 Take a look at some of the mathematical resources - you might like to have your own 21st of October Mathematical Celebration Day. In honour of Martin Gardner. Check out some Martin Gardner Puzzles
Check out the Hexaflexagons at Virtualteacher a great place to begin. - Stage 3
Then try some more adventurous Hexaflexagons
Triangle Flexagon Bestiary
Tetraflexagons
Pentaflexagons
Hexaflexagons
Heptaflexagons
Octaflexagons
Enneaflexagons
Decaflexagons
Dodecaflexagons
Post-It Note Magic Stage 2 and up
How to fit yourself inside the average post-it note! Watch the Video great for stage 3 and up. For stage 2 try this Simple Kids' Trick - How to Step Through a Piece of Paper
Or you can do some experiments.1. Cut 5 or strips of paper(A4 paper portrait strips 4cm x 29.7cm)2. Make a paper loop. How many sides does it have? (2) Draw along the middle of the middle of the loop.3. Predict what will happen when you cut along the line (you get 2 loops)4. Cut along the line. See if you are right. 5. Make a paper loop with a twist to create Mobius loop. How many sides does it have? (1) Draw along the middle of the middle of the loop.6. Predict what will happen when you cut along the line (you get 1 loop)7. Cut along the line. See if you are right.8. Make a paper loop with a twist to create Mobius loop. draw a line 1/3 up from the bottom of the strip. 9. Predict what will happen when you cut along the line (you get 2 loops one small and one large)10. Cut along the line. See if you are right. Or you can watch the video and pause it to complete the activities.Mobius Strip Activities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNtKcK27x1s
The Impossible Fold
How many times can you fold a piece of paper?
Blooming Flower
 Super Strong Paper Do you think paper will hold a brick or 2 bricks or 3 bricks?
Many of these investigations are investigations into Mathematical topology
Topology is the mathematical study of the properties that are preserved through deformations, twistings, and stretchings of objects. A circle is topologically equivalent to an ellipse (into which it can be deformed by stretching) and a sphere is equivalent to an ellipsoid.
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RUBE Goldberg APP
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The app is
& costs $3.79
The first and only official Rube Goldberg puzzle game. Solve everyday problems
in Rube’s trademark elaborate style by creating complex and hilarious machines.
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viewed video of fireworks, this one is 30minutes so I played this throughout the Art activity for inspiration, this is a particularly splendid one.
The students drew fireworks on black paper including drawing of themselves celebrating with oil pastels.
they loved this.
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