Which of these paintings are you drawn to?
Tell about it.
Personal Aesthetics & Math
Which of these paintings are you drawn to?
Tell about it.
Author: Mark Trushkowsky
Which of these paintings are you drawn to?
Tell about it.
The Numbers of Colors
In this CAMI meeting, Aren and Mark brought some tools for us to explore colors and play around with one way that humans have developed to quantify colors.
To get things started, we played around with a color slider. https://adultnumeracynetwork.org/Color-Sliders
Our task was to:
- Create a color that is meaningful to you, or
- Find the color that describes how you feel right now, or
- Find your favorite color
Happy Numbers
For this month’s meeting, we returned to explore some numbers we first encountered in CAMI back in 2015 (Happy Numbers and the Melancoil).
After some community building, we started our exploration with a notice/wonder of this diagram.
Sarah’s Passing Drill
In another edition of revisiting problems from the CAMI vaults, at this month’s meeting we went back to further explore a number pattern we first looked at in January 2017 (Carl’s Basketball Problem).
We started off discussing WHAT IS SIMILAR? WHAT IS DIFFERENT? looking at these four expressions:
Diagonals in Rectangles
2024 marks the 10th anniversary of CAMI (!) and to honor all we have learned and all the ways we have grown as a group, we are going into the vaults for a few CAMI meeting, to reopen and revisit some of our early explorations together. This month’s meeting was a new take on a problem we explored in June 2016 at Making and Testing Conjectures: The Diagonal Problem.
We started with a Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Math Art Challenges
Annie Perkins is a middle school/high school math teacher in Minneapolis, MN and she has been sharing a daily math art challenge every day since the governor’s made the call for everyone to stay at home. As I write this, we are going on Day 19.
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How do the functions for converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit work? Temperature talk during the coldest week of 2019 thus far.
At our evening CAMI meeting earlier this month, Kevin Winkler from CUNY Start led us in an exploration of the conversion between Celsius and Fahrenheit based on something strange he noticed while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
I wanted to bring that idea to the afternoon CAMI meeting, and also try to scaffold the exploration a bit, so that we could extend the invitation to our students. It also just happened to be the week where the Midwest was experiencing such cold weather that friends in Minnesota kept making the same joke over and over again about the temperatures there being colder than they were in Antarctica.
Factor Towers
Eric shared activities from a draft lesson on factors, multiples, primes and composites. The lesson is linked in the post if you are interested in using the materials from the meeting. He would love feedback if you use it with a class.
Launch
To start off the meeting, Eric put us into groups and gave each group a bag of paper tiles. He asked us to spend a few minutes looking at them and discussing anything we noticed.
CAMI Roadshow: 2018 NYC Adult Basic Education Conference
NYC CAMI revisited the Grid Power problem and modeled the collective problem-posing/problem-solving process of CAMI meetings.
At this year’s NYC ABE Conference, Jane, Eric and Mark brought back the Grid Power problem from the summer 0f 2016.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Multiplication Tables
Looking for the surprising in the familiar, we see what happens when you look, really look, at the multiplication table and tumble through the looking glass.
I once taught a poem by Wallace Stevens called “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” to a class of adult literacy students. Before I gave out the poem I put the title on the board and asked students what they thought the poem was going to be about. They had all kinds of ideas about looking at blackbirds. Then I asked them, “What about the first part? What does that mean Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird?”And they said things like:
- “Thirteen ways to understand the bird is better than one… but you have to take time to see the bird.”
- “If you look at the bird you will find all the different things it does, but you have to look closely.”
- “We don’t pay attention to these things and he wants us to focus.”
- “He stopped to pay attention to something so maybe we will too.”
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