Happy Monday!
After over xiii hours at schoolhouse today, I'm happy that Mon is close over! We had parent/teacher conferences this eve from 3:30-6:30, in addition to we'll do the same tomorrow night. That makes for a real long day, but I approximate nosotros do exit of schoolhouse on Fri to brand upward for it. Of course, that way my Pi Day celebration has been thrown off i time again. One day, I volition genuinely celebrate Pi Day amongst my students on Pi Day!
Spring Break is coming, though! 3 to a greater extent than days. 1 blood drive. 1 to a greater extent than black of parent/teacher conferences. 1 STEM Day Engineering in addition to Math Contest. Yup. It's going to live on a busy, busy week! I approximate it volition simply brand Spring Break that much to a greater extent than sweet...
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| My New Desk Decoration - Pencil (or Highlighter) Holder |
In other news, I got a novel desk ornamentation that I haven't been able to conduct maintain my eyes off of today. It's beautiful, it's mathematical, in addition to it's courtesy of my amazing, artistic sister. She made this concluding semester equally i of her pottery projects. Then, she fired it in addition to glazed it. I LOVE it! It fits my personality perfectly. And, it definitely reminds me of
Frankoma Pottery.
Each of the 4 sides features a dissimilar mathematical symbol.
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| The Imaginary Number, i |
Today, I had a pupil remain to consummate about missing assignments during parent/teacher conference time. This student's sister, a seventh grader, was stuck inwards my room for 2+ hours. She looked at all my posters, played amongst my diverse mathematical toys, in addition to spent a practiced chunk of fourth dimension trying to solve my Rubik's cube. One of the start out matter that caught her optic was my novel pencil/highlighter holder. Oooh! That's the pi symbol. And, it has a foursquare origin symbol on this side. And, this way infinity. Then, she got to the side featuring i. What is this? Her blood brother chop-chop piped upward that i is the foursquare origin of negative one. I could run across the wheels within her caput turning equally she tried to figure out the foursquare origin of negative one. That's negative one, right? What's negative i times negative one? Positive one. So, that way negative i cannot live on the foursquare origin of negative one. The adjacent matter I know, her blood brother in addition to I are discussing where i would live on on the number line. These are the types of conversations that I LOVE!
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| Pi Symbol |
We discussed the number pi in addition to how it goes on forever. I conduct maintain issued a challenge to my students to memorize equally many digits of pi equally possible for our early on Pi Day celebration on Wednesday. Today, I handed out slips of newspaper to my students amongst the start out grand digits of pi. One pupil at i time asked, "Where's the pattern?" There is no pattern. Pi never repeats. That's why it's irrational. "Oh man! That was how I was going to win. I was simply going to memorize upward until the signal that it started repeating..."
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| A Radical Symbol |
Art that sparks mathematical conversations? Yeah, I'll conduct maintain that whatsoever day!
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| Infinity Symbol |
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