Geometry4YL
@geometry4yl
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We are educators interested in curating & collecting lessons that draw on young students' powerful visual & kinaesthetic capacities
Burnaby, British Columbia
Joined October 2015
Learning about angles using a dynamic fan model. Use the fan to compare the angles formed by dancers’ arms and to orient yourself on land.
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We are working on new activities for elem school kids. interesting, engaging & deep mathematics. The first one is up: Thanks Sandy Bakos, @annetterouleau, Victoria Guyevskey, Rebecca Cohen. Check out Symmetry & Triangles activities. #bcedchat #bcamt.
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RT @DucPetra: @WCDSBNewswire. #STEAMdays T=Tech Tuesday . explore block symmetry with Web Sketch Pad tasks from @geometry4yl #thanks htt….
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Exploring tessellations with websketchpad: some are familiar and some are chellenging our definition about no overlap and no gap.
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Or, in the colour calculator, 28513/99999 with table width 6 for the left and table width 5 for the right. Try!
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Daniel Scher provides an interactive color calculator for exploring decimal representations of fractions based on an model from Nathalie Sinclair.
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Desirée Patterson uses geometric transformations of photographs—anamorphic like—to explore human impact on nature. See her Anthropocene art at the King Edward station!
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RT @dpscher: Enjoying shooting lightning bolts from my fingertips to represent multiplication arrays using the new TouchTimes app on my iPa….
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Making symmetry with some two handed rope work at the Fröbel museum in Bad Blankenburg
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For when you need to make a straight line on the board: unroll the string from the device, which coats it with chalk, pin to board and give the string a quick tug. Ta da! Who needs rulers anyway?
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For when you need a break from Platonic solids. diversity of faces so attractive.
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2000 BCE Assyrian circles and triangles. Our constant companions for more than four thousand years.
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Froebel’s first gift: balls of yarn. Sensory experiences of lines, loops, crossings, insides, boundaries. all lures into geometry
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Some tired circles. at least they won’t roll away! By French artist Bernar Venet.
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