I couldn’t sneak this clip past YouTube or Vimeo’s copyright Cylons. Consequently, y’all will have to click a hyperlink to play along.
Download high quality here. See the pilot for instructions.
BTW: Cool stuff in the comments, but I like Mr. H’s suggestions the best, spanning passive voice and inference. (Not that I teach this stuff, of course, so help yourself to that salt lick in the corner.)
I like this. The iPhone application RulerPhone will measure anything, in any photo, so long as the photo includes a credit card. It’s a great use of proportional reasoning, which, if pressed to name one, would be The Mathematical Skill I’d Most Like My Students To Retain After High School.
I added it to the What Can You Do With This? segment featuring The Bone Collector, which seemed like an obvious pair to me. In trying to find the best classroom entry point for this program, I can only think of the question, “How can we break this thing – trick it into giving an incorrect measurement?” I imagine someone can do better.
Freak. out. It’s here. Lethal infodesign. Designs so sharp they’ll put an eye out.
I haven’t taught the second semester of Algebra 1 in three years, which means, right now, I wish my browser could search both Nick Hershman and Dan Greene’s sites at once
If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria.
Right, except its demographics would be a bit skewed.
There would be no children and no elderly.
Half of the population would be dead, flopped over in their houses, with nobody noticing or caring. But they’re still counted in the census!
A quarter of the population would be marketing consultants yelling advertisements at everyone. They’re counted, too.
And nobody, including the government, would be making any money or producing much of lasting value.