Community of Adult Math Instructors (CAMI)
teachers learning math together
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?
I decided to lead a meeting on function diagrams because I’m intrigued by the possibilities of teaching with them and because I wanted to introduce the resources that the math educator Henri Picciotto makes available. I have to admit that I haven’t spent that much time thinking about to teach with function diagrams, but I was interested to see what we can learn together by exploring this visualization.
Continue reading “Function Diagrams”During our Tuesday, April 18th CAMI meeting, Gina Cortez and Amy Vickers facilitated a conversation around shadows.
We showed this slide and asked the group what they noticed and wondered.
Today we looked at a problem involving rebounding balls on a billiard table.
The rules of our problem:
Cindy started the meeting by asking participants to draw rectangles in Jamboard using the graph paper background.
Tip: To make a straight line in Jamboard, hold down the shift key!
For the May afternoon CAMI meeting, we considered the case of the tethered goat. We observed goats tethered to fences and barns of various shapes and sizes and considered the grazing area of the goats under various conditions.
Continue reading “Stubborn as a Goat”Whole Group
We started this meeting with a Which One Doesn’t Belong which also included talking about what the four pictures have in common:
In April’s evening CAMI meeting, Audrey led us through an exploration of star polygons…at a safe distance.
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.
Continue reading “Math Art Challenges”We learned how to draw interlocking knots and investigated mathematical questions related to counting features of the knots.
We started by looking at a few Celtic knots and thinking about what we noticed and wondered.
Maybe you’ll take a few notes before you move to the next page…
Continue reading “Celtic Knots”
