Erika's Math Blog

I really enjoyed the math art project, especially because I enjoy doing arts and crafts in my spare time. It was interesting exploring the patterns that emerged from assigning colours to the prime factors, and how different patterns emerged when different tilings of the plane were used. It was also interesting researching different prime number sieves - I have some background in that from Number Theory classes I have taken, but I enjoyed looking into them in more depth, and learning about their history. I don't know that I would use this particular project in a math class I was teaching, or that I would assign a "Math Art Project" to my students, unless I found some kind of math art project that was more explicitly connected to whatever I was teaching. But I would definitely have examples of math art around my classroom to pique students interest, and I would love to integrate smaller scale math art projects into individual lessons if they were relevant.

Reflection on Feedback for my group micro-teaching on Grade 10 Foundations and Pre-calc: The difference of Squares Reflection Overall, I was quite pleased with how our lesson went. I felt like Leah and I came up with a creative and memorable way of introducing the concept of the difference of squares, and I think our presentation of it went quite well. Our biggest problem was time - we had much more material planned than we ended up having time to cover, and because of that, towards the end of the lesson we got a little bit rushed. Reading through the feedback from my peers, there were a couple pieces that stood out to me. Arthur pointed out that it's a little bit confusing that our worksheet asked for the area as well as the side lengths, when it was the side lengths alone that led to the proof. This was really great feedback for me. While designing the worksheet I thought that computing the area would be helpful in getting students...