Here’s the list of puzzles & games from my session at the BCAMT
Fall Conference. Together, we brainstormed some ideas about
connecting games to mathematics. I listed some of these ideas in
an earlier post. Also, I attended a couple of sessions in the
morning… “It’s the most interesting thing a graphing calculator
can do and we don’t even have kids do it.” Dan Kamin was talking
about creating a scatterplot to determine the linear, quadratic,
or exponential regression equation. While lines/curves of best
fit are no longer in the curriculum (regression functions were
in Applications of Math 10 & 11), it is expected that students
will solve problems by analyzing linear, quadratic, and
exponential functions. This provides opportunities to have
students use technology to answer questions such as: - Is the
data best modeled with a line or with a curve? - What is the
equation of the function that best models the data? - How does
your best fit line/curve compare with the those used by experts?
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