Mathematical Dance Moves - What's yours?

On the windows of Mathsland are some formulas (formulae) to dance moves - check them out. What's your signature move? How would you graph it?

In MYP3 and MYP5 we have looked at graphing and patterns (different ones). Learning their signature moves on the axes can help us to understand how to graph them but also what they are trying to tell us about the pattern they represent.

Here's my  "squared triple circle cubed undefined gradient dance"



Play around with the formulas in the Desmos Calculator and check out some of the graphs other people have made like the minion...

We Are Happy - AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS

This came across my social media world today:

"AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS, WE ARE FROM L.A. - CLÉMENT DUROU & PIERRE DUPAQUIER, FOR THEIR WORLDWIDE CONTAGIOUS HAPPINESS..."

We Are Happy Map of Videos - a map is a graph - enjoy!

Here's the one we looked at

MYP2 Coders and Artists and Scientists

MYP2 have joined the world in the Hour of Code and Beyond the Hour of Code.

No one has to wait for MYP2 to learn to code, it's all online and it's free. Don't wait.

In a week we will begin our Summative task - Rube Goldberg Machines.

To be honest I had two other ideas for the summative task but then I was fortunate enough to see what they were creating in Visual Art...

Rube Goldberg machines. Too cool. Their imaginations can go wild in Visual Arts and now we can bring them to life using animation and Scratch programming.

We will work in teams and then piece the machines together; working like a machine in groups.

The mathematics needed covers a great deal:
coordinates; Cartesian plane; translations; reflections; rotations; negative and positive numbers; angles, properties of shapes; formulas, using variables and functions; logic statements; scaling and percentages and more and more...


and this site is pretty cool - so nice what you can do with a lot of free time.

This is HUGE!

Sorry about the lack of posts, I'm planning to make up for it.

And if you find something cool - a video or graphic or story that's mathematical, share it with me and I'll post it (referencing you of course).

It's about our universe, seconds after it began.

It's about theories and persistence

It's about patience and taking the time, a long time...

CHECK IT OUT HERE WOWOWOW

I love science and numbers

Pixels and the Scale of our Solar System

Check out this very cool If the Moon were the Size of a Pixel site, by Josh Worth.

It is very good at communicating the scale of the sun and the distance between planets.

CHECK IT OUT HERE 

Coordinate Practice - Learning from Mistakes

Ever struggled with plotting co-ordinates?  (x, y) 

On printed maps they use LETTERS with numbers help people locate things. 

What can you find in F6?

Click on this link to see the entire map from Thai Airways.

In maths, science, Google maps [what is found at location (8.0502489, 98.3523413)] and other subjects that use graphs like humanities, you can't use the same system of letters and numbers. There are always two numbers and you must remember the order. That's the reason coordinates are also called ordered pairs, because the order is important.  (3, 7) is not the same position as (7, 3).

There's "through the door and up the stairs" to help or play these two games and learn by making mistakes. 

Try Billy the Bug and the Whack a Mole game

Billy only has positive numbers.

MYP2 Coders Online

Hi there - in MYP2 we have started to write our own programs. Some are even investigating the code of other programs online too.

This is where we will publish our code