Emily Allman

I want people to feel about math the way they do about music. Trying to compose a symphony. #MTBoS #mathchat #tmwyk #alg1chat

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@JustinAion For example 9^1/2 means break into two multiplicative pieces (3*3) and take one. Likewise, 8^5/3 means break into three equal pieces (2*2*2) and take 5 of them: 2^5

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@JustinAion Here it’s easier to reason why zero nines is one, negative exponents mean ‘inverse’ and fractions still mean to break into pieces… just in a multiplicative kind of way.

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@pwharris First do 75*12 as 3*25*4*3=900, then add on one more 75… 975!

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@MandyMathEd I wish I could be there. Good luck!

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@RyanLlopezryan I also love messy math!

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Excited to be with lime-minded new friends at #BTCC23

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@Mathgarden I will add one caveat - 28 of these in one assignment seems unnecessary and is likely to suck away any joy a student might have!

[Emily Allman @allmanfiles]

@Mathgarden … but as a math educator now, I find joy in showing my students mathematics from all angles. I think there are still plenty of students who find this type of exercise interesting. No judgement on those who don’t… there is so much beauty to share with them too.

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@MrSurti @pwharris Love this use of benchmark fractions

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@pwharris 25x3x4x6=25x4x3x6=100x18=1800

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@mathyawp Of the three, the stairs feel the most human to me. They are playful, surprising, imperfect, and full of potential. That’s closest to the emotions I felt when reading your beautiful book.

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@howie_hua I used your recent one about subtracting integers as distance just today with a ninth grader and she was smiling ear to ear by the time she left. It ‘finally’ made sense to her!

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@MrsSheehanMath The student is correct. My guess is that the author of the answer key made a hasty misapplication of the Hinge Theorem, but you’d need QP = QR to apply that theorem.

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@ShowTheWork @AEF_Program @TeachingLC Sorry I’m not there to see this!

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@ShowTheWork How did it go the next day?

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@ShowTheWork I’m using lots of ideas from #thinkingclassroom in my classes this year too. Thanks for the share. I love the discussion around ‘linear or not’… exactly the kind of thing that gets missed otherwise!

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@ShowTheWork Congratulations!