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Mentioned this in class: http://traubeck.bandcamp.com/album/years

Tessellations Project FIRST THING’S FIRST: get inspired! M.C. Escher made some amazing art , including awesome tessellations. Here is a cool video on how to make the type of tessellations that appear in Islamic tile art. Here is another resource on Islamic tessellation art (it is aimed at teachers). Pick a tessellation art piece to be your inspiration. You don’t have to try to imitate it, just be inspired. Learn some things. Some definitions - what are tessellations? What are isometries? Any other terms someone who has no idea about geometry stuff should know? Some history - a little about islamic tile art or Escher, depending on which piece your inspiration comes from. Write these down (very neatly) or type them. Make your own tessellation, either in the manner of the Islamic art video, or like this site. The due date is __________________ Include anything else that seems like it would add to the project.

From here on out this blog will only be used for big announcements, link sharing, etc. Day to day planning takes place on the calendar .

Hey remember this? We are more-or-less continuing what we were doing yesterday. However, by the end of class, I need everyone to have created their own schedule or have committed to following Mira's.

First, I need to be able to see everyone's work on Khan Academy, so we need to spend 5 minutes to get everyone’s khan academy linked to mine. Then I will check that you did the homework. Here is the calendar where you can find the homework ( link ): How does the pace seem? Let's keep checking in on that and try to get it right. Also: I know sometimes you don't need to watch Khan Academy videos. That's cool. But why don't you leave them playing, muted. Then it will say you completed more of the course (I think this is a good thing to do especially for Geometry, so you have hard evidence of having completed one (or both) semester(s)).

Make quiz policy Make calendar through october! Homework: Finish Introduction to Euclidian Geometry (Khan Academy, Geometry) by 9/29, Monday.

Continue making proposals. If you are done, we will possibly start actually math-ing.

Here's the plan: Proposal: can each class start with everyone reading the blog to see what the agenda is? Convey how stoked  I am to teach this class! This is going to be a really good time. Berate you for the names you chose for this class. Really, "US History" was the best option, but I feel like that could be confusing. So activity: come up with a class name! If I were to ask you to bring a laptop to class every day, could you? Note: I shared a folder with you on Google Drive called Math2014/2015 . We can put all files for this class in there. It is shared to the Google accounts I had for each of you, so if you changed your email from last year, let me know. Go over responses to last class' survey. Briefly, everyone wants to learn some different stuff, but there's overlap. I think we can do this, content-wise. I have an idea for a long-term project/goal for the end of the year (it's gonna rock), and it will require that we document what we d

I couldn't stay away! First Day Notes: I want you to have freedom (that is, you pick the curriculum) within constraints (the topics have to be at least related to math). I want you to feel like this is your class. If that means people learn different topics, so be it. My Dream: If it works with how you want the class to be structured, I would like this to be a meta-learning experience . What do I mean by that? (From Wikipedia): The prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced them, when, what format the data are in and so on). In database metadata are also data about data stored in a data dictionary and describes information (data) about database tables such as the table name, table owner, details about columns, – essentially describes the table. Also, metamemory in psychology means an individual's knowledge about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. Th

Algebra: Here is the midterm: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16bpkMUhNLfVtfiqKZC7ZOdxYwmLYkRt9u86CwUBJY48/edit?usp=sharing And here is the 3rd quarter term: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12clf44a1U13raFwxjK6gyd_6LsZJPQqeIbTbm6weJSk/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the concept list for Algebra: the file should end: 35. Solving Quadratics with the Quadratic Formula 36. Graphing Quadratics EC. Solving Quadratics by Completing the Square

I made a final study guide for ISRP , if you are interested. You should also go through this blog and look at the 14 classes we had this year - the presentations, the reading.

We discussed the Kant and Mill reading - see last week. We took a quiz (or not; again, see last week) on the reading. We read this article on how language affects moral judgement: Using a foreign language changes moral decisions We listened to: a Radiolab episode called Golden Balls: or this TED talk by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: I told you what the Final Exam would be like: I will give you a reading assignment and you have to answer the following 6 questions: 1) What is the most important point of the reading? 2) How would you compare this reading assignment to a previous reading assignment in the course? 3) Give an example or real world application of some idea or concept in the assigned reading. 4) What was the most important sentence in the reading? Why did you think that sentence is so important? 5) What question did you have about the reading or what did you find troubling or disturbing? 6) What was your reaction to the content of

Day 13 - reading quiz, or not. Roll the dice! (see “The 6 questions”, below). Ethics: Kant and Mill slides Discuss - two beliefs on being good - obligation and outcomes. Also, why be good? HW: Read summaries of Kant and Mill Same as last week, Assignment: At the beginning of next class a student will roll a die.  If the die comes up as 1 or 2, a quiz will be given, if it comes up at 3 or higher, then there is no quiz that day. A second roll of the die indicates which of the predetermined questions will be asked. The 6 questions: What is the most important point of the reading? How would you compare this reading assignment to a previous reading assignment in the course? Give an example or real world application of some idea or concept in the assigned reading. What was the most important sentence in the reading? Why did you think that sentence is so important? What question did you have about the reading or what did you find troubling or disturbing? What was your reaction to the content

God and Design  slides and Is Belief in God Reasonable?  slides and God and Evil  slides Discuss HW: Reading: Bro-Summary of Fear and Trembling by Kierkagaard Assignment: At the beginning of next class a student will roll a die.  If the die comes up as 1 or 2, a quiz will be given, if it comes up at 3 or higher, then there is no quiz that day. A second roll of the die indicates which of the predetermined questions will be asked. The 6 questions: What is the most important point of the reading? How would you compare this reading assignment to a previous reading assignment in the course? Give an example or real world application of some idea or concept in the assigned reading. What was the most important sentence in the reading? Why did you think that sentence is so important? What question did you have about the reading or what did you find troubling or disturbing? What was your reaction to the content of the reading? Partial Credit if you

Logic and Dialetheism HW check (questions). Discuss questions and answers. Social contracts. This comic on Sartre and Hobbes and the social contract vs radical freedom. Maybe this comic too, on what-is-versus-what-can-be-known . Logic and Dialetheism. Sentences VS statements - statements assert something. Truth values. My friend’s dad’s favorite riddle: an explorer is captured by a tribe of cannibals. They are going to kill him. He is told to make a statement. If it is true, he will be beheaded; if it’s false he’ll be speared to death. The explorer thinks for a while, says something, and they let him go. What did he say? This statement is false presentation . Exit slip: write a dialethium. Homework - what do they want to know more about? Should we watch or read Tuck Everlasting?

If you are having trouble budgeting your time: 4/28 Get packet. It is 6 sheets of paper. Call one side of a sheet a page. do a page of the packet. 4/29 do a page of the packet. 5/1 do a page of the packet. 5/5 do a page of the packet. 5/6 do a page of the packet. 5/8 do a page of the packet. PROGRAMMING: By today, be able to make an array of pythagorean triples -  unsorted, with duplicated, not necessarily 1_000. 5/12 do a page of the packet. 5/13 do a page of the packet. 5/15 do a page of the packet. Don’t forget about the other parts of the final! 5/19 do a page of the packet. 5/20 do a page of the packet. 5/22 do a page of the packet. 5/26 No school Memorial Day 5/27 5/28 Finish final by today. 6/2 Finish proofs 6/3 Finish proofs 6/4 Last day!

Homework check Read stories! What does the audience think the theme was? What did the author intend? As a side discussion, does what the author intended matter? Read my story . Talk about influence and power. Read Hobbes’ Leviathan Books 1 and 2 summary . Homework questions: What does Hobbes say about people and their basic nature? What does he say is the solution to this? What assumptions does Hobbes make? What points, if any, do you agree with Hobbes on? What points, if any, do you disagree with Hobbes on?

Here is the checklist.

4/21 Warmup: conversation, unit plan. Review SIF and PSF Parallel and Perpendicular lines HW: Study for Quiz 25-27 4/22 Earth Day warmup: review for quiz Quiz 25-27 Concept 31: is the point on the graph? HW: Ordered Pair Solutions to Linear Equations and Interpreting Linear Relationships 4/24 Concept 32: Solving Linear systems with substitution: (Steps to “getting it”: subbing in a numerical value to an equation. Subbing a different letter in for a variable) (the hard part: turning word problems to equations) HW (by Tuesday 4/29): Watch: “Trolls, tolls, and systems of equations” and “Solving the troll riddle visually” and “Solving linear systems by substitution” Do: “Systems of equations with substitution” 4/28 Review for Quiz Quiz 26-28 Work on substitution. If finished, substitution worksheet. 4/29 Concept 33: Solving systems of equation with elimination (AKA linear combinations) HW (by Tuesday 5/6): Finish the topic “Supe