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Russian invasion prompts prayers for Ukraine, aid efforts, expectation of immigration to Greater Cleveland

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Anger and anxiety are pervasive among Ukrainian transplants in Northeast Ohio, as they scramble to connect with loved ones overseas to assure their security or safe passage out of the country.

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As seen in the movie Hidden Figures, NASA has a long-standing cultural commitment to excellence that is largely driven by data, including data about our people. Today, NASA strives to make sure their legacy of inclusion and excellence lives on.

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I'm Sarah Carter, a high school math teacher who passionately believes math equals love. Through this blog, I'm on a mission to equip other teachers to create inviting and engaging classrooms where learning mathematics is fun.

I currently teach AP Calculus AB, Pre-Calculus, and Statistics at Coweta High School in Coweta, OK. Over my eleven-year teaching career, I have taught both math and science at the secondary level. If you want to know more about my career in education, check out my About Me page.

THANKSGIVING MATH ACTIVITIES

MOST POPULAR ACTIVITIES

MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS

If you're looking for a traditional blog reading experience, I recommend checking out my BLOG page. You can find it by following the previous link or by clicking on the Blog Tab at the top of the page. This page will list all of my blog posts (over 1300 of them!) in chronological order with the most recent blog post first.

This blog started as a way for me to make sense of my student teaching experiences in the middle school and high school math classroom. It's evolved over the past decade to become a way to share free resources for engaging and fun math activities with teachers around the world.

Looking for resources for a specific math teaching topic? I recommend navigating the blog using the tabs at the top of the page or by using the search box. You can easily find and read all of my posts about polynomials, puzzles, or posters this way.

FREE PRINTABLE MATH RESOURCES

PRINTABLE MATH PUZZLES

I am a passionate proponent of incorporating puzzles into the mathematics classroom. Over the past five years, I have compiled a collection of hundreds of free printable puzzles that have been used in math classrooms around the world with students ranging from elementary school to high school as well as adults! You can find out more about how to access these free puzzles on my puzzles page!

FREE PRINTABLE MATH POSTERS AND CLASSROOM DECORATIONS

My high school math classroom is my happy place, and I love decorating it to display my love of math to my students. I have created many math posters over the years that I am sharing here on my blog. I recommend checking out my entire math poster collection - ten years' worth of math posters!

FUN AND CREATIVE MATH PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

I love creating fun, interactive, and hands-on activities. Be sure to check out some of these activities while you are here!

GAMES

Looking to infuse some fun into your math classroom? Check out these free printable games! You and your students are sure to have a ton of fun!

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I'm Sarah Carter, a high school math teacher who passionately believes math equals love. Through this blog, I'm on a mission to equip other teachers to create

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A virtual platform to walk around cities of the world and feel the vibes of the city.

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Methods

Zoo and aquarium cameras were collected from Google searches, listicles, and the website Zoo Cameras Around the World. Throughout the day each day, a script runs, launching a headless browser using Microsoft Playwright. This browser navigates to each camera, collects 15 screenshots, and leaves the camera's page to conserve bandwidth for each facility's website. The screenshots are then rendered into a GIF using gif-encoder-2. Due to the automatic nature of GIF creation and the reliance on live streams that we do not personally operate or maintain, you may sometimes see some glitchiness. If you see a consistent issue (like a camera appears to be permanently turned off), please let us know at amber@polygraph.cool.

The cameras are arranged on this page based (roughly) on the location of each animal's natural habitat. Animals with similar natural ranges are grouped together. This may not be completely accurate as some animals (particularly ocean-dwelling animals) have very large natural ranges and some zoo and aquarium exhibits showcase multiple species with slightly different natural ranges.

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Zoo and aquarium cameras were collected from Google searches, listicles, and the website Zoo Cameras Around the World. Throughout the day each day, a script runs, launching a headless browser using Microsoft Playwright. This browser navigates to each camera, collects 15 screenshots, and leaves the camera's page to conserve bandwidth for each facility's website.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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NY Times-What's going on in this picture?

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NY Times-What's going on in this picture?

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Images From Four More Years of 'What's Going On in This Picture?'

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A slide show including some of our most popular images published from 2016 to 2020 in "What's Going On in This Picture?"

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The Kid Should See This: Educational videos for curious kids of all ages, a free resource for parents & teachers. Science, art, nature, animals, & more.

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PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

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The Toolbox organizes the Thinking Routines into categories that describe the types of thinking the routines help to facilitate. Some routines appear in more than one category, and some routines have different versions that offer modifications for specific age groups or more specific conceptual challenges.

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Make this part of your lesson plans, and share to help other teachers!

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11 Easy Recipes for Playdough, Gak and Slime | Parenting Tips & Advice | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Looking for new slime recipes? We rounded up our 11 favorite recipes to make slime, gak, silly putty and playdough with your kids.

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Fully aligned content

IXL's skills are aligned to the Ohio New Learning Standards and the Ohio Early Learning and Development Standards, providing comprehensive coverage of math concepts and applications. With IXL's state standards alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice questions specifically tailored to each required standard.

Track by standard

With the IXL Analytics standards center it's simple to view student progress towards state standards. The reports in the standards center allow you to quickly evaluate student aptitude and identify trouble spots.

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IXL's skills are aligned to the Ohio New Learning Standards and the Ohio Early Learning and Development Standards, providing comprehensive coverage of math concepts and applications. With IXL's state standards alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice questions specifically tailored to each required standard.

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All tetrapods are believed to have evolved from crocodile-like Elpistostege watsoni fish that inhabited Earth during the Devonian period (Credit: Katrina Kenny/CC-BY-SA 2.0/The Conversation)

Researchers have long believed that all four-limbed animals or tetrapods, a group that includes amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, evolved from an ancient group of fish known as Elpistostege watsoni, which lived between 416 million and 358 million years ago, during the Devonian Period.

Over the years, partial remains of the creatures, which possessed characteristics of both lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods, has shed light on some of the anatomical change the creatures underwent, such as breathing, hearing, and feeding.However, the lack of a complete pectoral fin fossil had made it impossible to determine the evolution of one of the most important features for the transition - hands!

The perfectly-preserved E. watsoni fossil was found in Quebec in 2010 (Credit: Cloutier et.al)

Now, thanks to the pristinely-preserved remains of a 5-foot (1.57 meter) long E. watsoni specimen, scientists finally have some evidence. The 'missing link' was discovered in Miguasha National Park in Quebec, Canada, a treasure trove of animal fossils from the Devonian Period, in 2010. However, it was only recently that an international team of paleontologists from Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and Canada's Quebec University studied the remains in detail.

The pectoral fin of E. watsoni shows the short rows of aligned digits in the fin - an intermediate evolutionary stage between fishes and land animals, such as the early tetrapod Tulerpeton (Credit: Cloutier et.al)

The examination revealed that the crocodile-like creature, which lived in the shallow waters of an ancient estuary, had a flat head, long snout, and small round eyes. But it was the well-preserved pectoral fins that fascinated the scientists. Revealing the presence of phalanges, or phalanx bones, organized in digits (fingers), it provided the first evidence of finger-like bones that eventually evolved into hands. The discovery, published in the journal Nature on March 18, 2020, suggests that fingers in vertebrates originated in fish, rather than in later land dwellers

Study co-author Professor John Long, a paleontologist at Flinders University, says, "We believe this is the first evidence of digit bones found in a fish fin with fin-rays [the bony rays that support the fin]. This suggests the fingers of vertebrates, including human hands, first evolved as rows of digit bones in the fins of Elpistostege fishes."

E. wastoni , which lived during the Late Devonian period of Canada, is now considered considered to be the fish most closely related to
to tetrapods, a group that includes humans (Credit: Brian Choo/CC-BY-SA 2.0/The Conversation)

Quebec University 's Richard Cloutier, who led the research, believes the evolution to digits most likely began when the fish was starting to support its own weight in shallow water or on land. He says, "The increased number of small bones in the fin allows more planes of flexibility to spread out its weight through the fin." The researcher asserts the E. watsoni may not necessarily be our ancestor, "But it is the closest we can get to a true 'transitional fossil,' an intermediate between fishes and tetrapods."

Resources: theconversation.com, dailymail.co.uk

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Ancient Fish Fossil Reveals Transitional Link From Fins To Hands

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Researchers have long believed that all four-limbed animals or tetrapods, a group that includes amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, evolved from an ancient group of fish known as Elpistostege watsoni, which lived between 416 million and 358 million years ago, during the Devonian Period.

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Watch the video to discover the answer to “Why do birds lay eggs in the spring?” and don’t forget to vote for next week’s question!

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Adding the role of teacher to parental obligations has many adults stretched thin these days. Parents, take comfort in the fact that engaging your children in math does not require late nights learning Common Core. Use this time at home to practice practical math skills that are applicable to everyday life situations. This weekly schedule provides a great starting point to practice skills including money, telling time, measurement, number sense, and problem solving.

Monday: Money

Pull out your spare change jar to engage your children in understanding the value of money. Begin by asking them to sort the coins so they can practice naming the value of each one. Then, have them compare and order the values.

Next, give them a handful of mixed coins and ask them to add up the total value. For extra motivation, let your kids keep the money if they correctly add up the sum.

Once they have the basics down, play some money-based games such as the following (and remind your kids to wash their hands at the end of each activity.)

Play board games such as Monopoly, Payday, Life.

Play store. As cashier, your children can charge for make-believe purchases and count out change.

Have your children help with online shopping. Ask them to add up the total for your latest Amazon or Target order. Did you stay in budget? If not, which items can be removed from the order?

Tuesday: Telling Time

Kids can sound like a broken record asking, "Is it time for [insert any snack/meal/activity]?" Extra time at home presents a great opportunity to work on telling time on both a digital and an analog clock. With so much time on our hands, it makes perfect sense to work on the concept of elapsed time.

Help your children craft their schedules for the day including meals, schoolwork, activities, and bedtime. Encourage them to draw the start times for each activity on both an analog and a digital clock. Throughout the day, do a role reversal by frequently asking your children questions about time.

How much time until the next activity?

When your 30 minutes of screen time is over, what time will it be?

If you need to do 20 minutes of reading before bed, what time do you need to start in order to be done by 7:00 p.m.?

If we're eating dinner, is that time a.m. or p.m.?

Wednesday: Measurement

Your home is filled with measuring tools, such as rulers, measuring tapes, scales, measuring cups, thermometers, etc. Choose one of these tools as the day's focus. Have a discussion with your children about whether that tool is used to measure length, weight, volume, or temperature. Then, send them off with a measuring task such as one of the following:

With a measuring cup, bake or cook something for the family or scoop out a specified amount of food to feed pets.

With the thermometer, track the temperature at intervals throughout the day. Discuss the high and low temperatures and what time of day the temperature was warmest.

With the ruler or measuring tape, have your children measure photo frames, walls, toys, etc. Take this activity outside and have them measure plants, lawn furniture, or even worms they dig up in the yard.

Thursday: Number Sense

The idea of number sense encompasses all the skills above and others. An overall understanding of numbers and relationships allows your children to form a solid base on which they can continue to build future math skills.

Skip counting: Practice skip counting while using coins as manipulatives. Give each child 20 nickels and 10 dimes. Practice counting by 5s and 10s.

Comparing and ordering: Work on comparing and ordering using multiple measuring tools such as a ruler and yard stick. Have your children determine which tool would be most appropriate for measuring various items and why. Then, ask them to measure an item using both tools and compare measures with different units such as inches versus feet.

Estimation: Apply estimation when discussing the day's schedule with your children. For example, if it's 10:08 a.m. and each child gets 20 minutes of screen time, then about what time will the TV need to be turned off? Be sure to discuss scenarios when estimation is appropriate and ones where it is not appropriate.

Friday: Problem Solving

Problem solving may sound like the most daunting skill to practice, but it requires the least amount of parent prep work. As adults, we problem solve every day. Simple examples include the following:

Do we have enough flour for this recipe?

How many pizzas can we order while staying under budget?

Do we have time to watch the whole movie before dinner time?

As you naturally come across such situations throughout the day, have your children help you answer these questions. Try to actively listen to their ideas and strategies more than steering the conversation toward the correct answer. Allowing them to think through the process and use trial and error to come to a conclusion will provide them the most benefit.

As you navigate the coming weeks of distance learning, remember that there is great value helping your children see the ways in which math is naturally integrated into everyday life. When your children can make these connections, they will stay engaged in math for years to come.
Ryan Jackson recently joined the Lincoln Learning Solutions team as a mathematics teacher. She has more than 8 years of experience in online education. Ryan spends her free time traveling across the U.S. with her husband and two children.

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Adding the role of teacher to parental obligations has many adults stretched thin these days. Parents, take comfort in the fact that engaging your children in math does not require late nights learning Common Core. Use this time at home to practice practical math skills that are applicable to everyday life situations.

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Use these Measuring Up Lesson Packs that are pulled from our current program.

Each subject and grade offer 3 complete lessons that you can use in your e-learning models.

Print and/or use online to support your efforts to provide virtual classroom instruction.

The Try It Out sample features:

3 full student lessons with complete Teacher Edition lesson

1 full Table of Contents for your grade level

Correlation to your state standards

Developed to meet the rigor of the standards, Measuring Up employs support for using and applying critical thinking skills with direct standards instruction that elevate and engage student thinking.

Standards-based lessons feature introductions that set students up for success with:

Vocabulary in Action

Relevant real-world connections

Clearly identified learning goals

Connections to prior-learning

Guided Instruction and Independent Learning strengthen learning with:

Deep thinking prompts

Collaborative learning

Self-evaluation

Demonstration of problem-solving logic

Application of higher-order thinking

Flexible design meets the needs of whole- or small-group instruction. Use for:

Introducing standards

Reinforcement or standards review

Intervention

Extend learning with online digital resources!

Measuring Up Live 2.0 blends instructional print resources with online, dynamic assessment and practice. Meet the needs of all students for standards mastery with resources that pinpoint student needs with customized practice.

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Measuring Up - Extends a Helping Hand in these challenging times

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Use these Measuring Up Lesson Packs that are pulled from our current program. Each subject and grade offer 3 complete lessons that you can use in your e-learning models. Print and/or use online to support your efforts to provide virtual classroom instruction.

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Welcome to Nuhop's At-Home Outdoor Education experience! As many of you have just learned from state, local, and national governments, we are in this at-home situation for a bit longer than we had hoped. But fear not! We are here to help YOU!

Our staff is hard at work developing new experiences for our teachers and students to help make this time at home meaningful, fun, and with a healthy dose of the outdoors! We have enjoyed the thousands of you who have already participated in the activities below, and we look forward to meeting those of you new to our site. Please feel free to send us topic suggestions and we will see what our amazing team can do!

From all of us here at Nuhop, stay safe, have fun, and get outside!

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Welcome to Nuhop's At-Home Outdoor Education experience! As many of you have just learned from state, local, and national governments, we are in this at-home situation for a bit longer than we had hoped. But fear not! We are here to help YOU!

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Shout Out to the Mad Science Community | Rube Goldberg Bar of Soap Video Challenge

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TIME for Kids nurtures today’s learners and tomorrow’s leaders with authentic news and the critical-thinking skills that shape active global citizens.