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Ten years
On the 23rd of July 2008, I started my first day as coordinator of the Maths Learning Centre at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide. Today is the 23rd of July 2018 – the ten year anniversary of that first day. (Well, it was the 23rd of July when I started writing this post!)
TMC17 Reflections a year later
A year ago, I went to Twitter Math Camp (TMC) and it was a wonderful experience. TMC is a great conference full of all sorts of opportunities for maths teachers to learn from each other in many ways.
Fairy Bread
Fairy bread, in case you don't know, is an ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn children's party food.
The Human Galton Board
Last week we were booked in to do with several groups of school students, but it turned out there would be a lot fewer of them than we expected, and I didn't think Human Markov Chains would work very well with under 20 students. I still dearly wanted to do a moving maths activity, and I still wanted it to be about probability, but I wasn't sure what to do. Then, on the morning of the day the students were coming, I had an inspiration and quickly knocked together the Human Galton Board.
Human Markov Chains
This blog post is about a moving maths activity that I have wanted to do for years and finally got an opportunity to do this year in 2018. It's a model of a concept called a "Markov Chain" using human movement.
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