If you like Vihart, check out Vsauce

This is mind-blowing all on its own, but I would like to point out that there is an exponential statement in here around the 3-minute mark, see if you notice it:

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Happy New Year!

This was created by a brilliant man named Daniel Mentrard, who is a geogebra genius, also a science teacher:

I couldn’t embed it properly so that the whole thing would be visible here, so click here http://www.geogebratube.org/student/m26078 to see the full version. Enjoy!

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Solutions to timed practice EMBEDDED RIGHT HERE!!!!

Yahoo! I found a way to get the pdf of the solutions to show up and be viewable and scrollable right here! If you want to see the solutions to the timed practice problem one by one, click on the full screen button bottom right, then you can click through the slides the see all the steps showing up.

timed problem solutions
And if you want to know how I did this, so that you can publish your gorgeous work to your blog:

I needed to use a site called scribd, to which I already had a membership. I uploaded my pdf to it, then it generated the embed code for me, and voila, I just pasted the embed code into the post. Making sure that the html tab was selected first of course. Easy! I am far too happy about this!

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How to follow using googlereader

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Shrieking numbers

Have a look at this – it might not seem to have anything to do with math, but it does!

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Big Bang Theory

Look closely at the whiteboard behind Sheldon’s girlfriend Amy in last night’s episode….see anything familiar? (Click on the picture to enlarge.)

big-bang-theory

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Hello from Mrs. McScottish

You might want to try out Voki on your own blog, because as you can see it’s possible to embed it like this:

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnd more questions from your peers!

The list of people who have posted questions has grown:

Amanda

Cassandra

Javiera

David

Elise

Eli

Marianne

Tyson

Remember, some of these MAY be on your test Thursday, who knows? Not me!

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Test questions posted

For my SN5 students:
So far, these are the people who have made up test questions on their blogs, check them out:

Amanda

Javiera

David

Elise

Eli

Marianne

Thanks folks, for doing that, and everybody else, get cracking to not only come up with your own, but to answer at least 3 of other peoples’ questions, using the comment.

And don’t forget everyone, try to use proper notation! (as Amanda and Javiera did, and Elise, close!)

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Another challenge!

Now let’s see who can figure out how to get special symbols into a post, like π, or √, as in, the formula for surface area of a sphere of radius r is:

and the formula for radius of a sphere with surface area A is:

I’ll give you a big hint, check out Mrs. Cule’s classblog, on its right hand side, and prepare to be dazzled!

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