Chapter 8: Mathematicians Connect Ideas

Margaret Wertheim‘s TED talk: The Beautiful Math of Coral

The Institute for Figuring‘s Crochet Coral Reef page.

A follow-up article from the New York Times, Jan 15, 2024

Connecting Math and the World

• Get the Math from PBS thirteen, featuring well structured, CCSS-aligned math challenges issued from professionals in fashion, sports, music, video game design, etc.
• We Use Math from BYU and Maths Careers from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications profile math in different careers.
• Rethinking Schools, Radical Math, and Mathalicious ($) are outstanding resources for integrating social justice issues with mathematics.

Connecting Math to Math

Multiple Representations:

• Principles to Actions, from NCTM, has a strong section on representations.
• Tripathi’s excellent article is here, for MTMS subscribers.

Relational Thinking:

• Richard Skemp’s powerhouse article from 1976, Instrumental Understanding and Relational Understanding, downloaded from http://www.skemp.org.uk/
• A webinar I gave at the Global Math Department, in which I discussed some of these ideas.

Connecting Math to Self

• CGI
• Kathy Richardson
• Street Math and School Math

Counting Collections:

• Kindergarten lesson from the Teaching Channel
• 3rd grade lesson from the Teaching Channel
• Counting Collection videos, planning templates, etc. from tedd.org

New Connections

• Liping Ma