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1) I really like the pictures you used. They are nice visuals to look at and make the posts look more attractive.
2) I enjoy the depth you go through in your topic. I think it really shows how must thought and time you have put into your project.
3) If I am not picking here, maybe change the colour of your post to make it alittle more attractive. But that is really nit picking here.
- Jonathan

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1)Love your project so far. I like how detailed your posts are. They give alot of information. They make me want to continue reading more.
2) I like the sources that you used. If I want to look up more about a specific topic you talked about, it allows me to look farther into.
3) Consider adding some pictures for a visual affect.

-Jonathan

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Star Comment:
1. I really like the topic you chose and the fact that you’re coming from a “beginners” perspective so that your blog can reach a wider audience. I’m not very confident in my coding abilities and I really like that you included the section on the different tutorials you took to brush up on your coding skills.
2. I love that you include the specific expectations the resources you find cover. I find that to be very important in keeping organized when you find a new resource so that you can understand where it fits into the curriculum and when you can use it.

Wish Comment:

1. I noticed in your last blog post that you said you hope to research what teachers have found useful when teaching coding in their classrooms. I’ve heard from multiple different teachers that they’ve had to learn to code themselves, so I think researching what teachers have to say about coding is definitely worth doing! Or looking through teachers classroom sites to see what kinds of coding activities they’re giving to their students.

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Star Comment:
1. I really like that you focused your blog on upper year math courses as I also find these are the courses where it might be more challenging to find meaningful hands-on activities.
2. I love that you included examples (with pictures) in each of your posts! Although your written instructions were very thorough, the pictures were a great addition so that your blog readers could actually see the activity and help them plan for when they use it in their classroom.

Wish Comment:

1. Although I love that you’re focusing on specific topics in different courses, I wonder if you could research other online resources or simulators (GeoGebra, CEMC, etc.) you could use for any topic for these upper year courses.

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Star:
1. First off I really enjoy your topic. I love math and music so this is really up my alley. Also for those students that don't love the hard math, this is nice to interest more students.
2. I really like your posts. They are very detailed. I can see the connection between you and the topic which makes it really more interesting for you.

Wish:
1. I am nit picking here, but the 1 wish I had was more visuals. I wish you had more visuals on your blog.

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1. I really like your resources, especially the use of growing success. I think it is a really useful document that we should all be familiar with.
2. I really liked the idea of self-assessment. For myself, I think it is very important to use reflection in the math classroom, and I think that it is not used enough in the classroom.

Wish:
1. I really like your blog, and had a hard time with a wish, but I wish I could see how this would work in an actual class, and how the students would react. I really think it, and think that would work but I would like to see toe effect in an actual classroom.

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1) Good job on your project so far! I like your research question. Providing various forms of assessment should help students consolidate their learning.
2) Your blogs are detailed and well thought out
3) Maybe consider adding references to your blogs
- Tom

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1) Good job so far on your project! I like your research question. Including student's interests will be a great way to get them engaging with the material.
2) I like the amount of critical thinking and resources you used for your posts
Wish) Maybe change the layout a bit so the tabs look a bit better
- Tom

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Stars:
1. Your Genius hour question seems like a very important one to investigate in the classroom. Collaboration is such an important part of math education in my opinion. I'm looking forward to following your blog as you continue to investigate this question!
2. Great work bringing in research into your blog posts. We all know how important it is to support your claims with sound research. Well done Tom!

Wish:
3. I think that you may have copied and pasted some of your blog texts from a word document or other source. For aesthetic reasons, I think it would go a long way to fix that text and background colour. Overall, awesome blog Tom!

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Star Comments:
1. First of all your pictures are adorable and amazing. Puns, too. I like your resources that you provided.
2. I like that you defined your question and its components. It makes following the process a lot easier.
Wish Comment:
1. I think your mind maps link is broken? I'd love to see some examples of it

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Star Comments:
1. Outlining the major learning outcomes in Strand B and C and sorting it in this way by itself is a very useful resource for having to put together a unit plan and course calendar. I'm excited to see your final result!
2. Your explanations in simple language for the achievement outcomes of each student was helpful.
Wish Comment:
1. Perhaps adding examples of resources or activities to go with each expectation would be useful to include in the final excel document (like a specific desmos activity)

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Star Comments:
1. I love your topic and the exploration of integrated interdisciplinary learning. Your initial research into the benefits of mixing curriculum outlines these points well, and thank you for incorporating reference links so others can read about the topic further. Also, the harmonograph looks so cool, thanks for introducing that to me.
2. Your connections to different cultures, computer programming, and student interest really ties into so many aspects of what we've been learning. I appreciate the relevance of these connections and your own exploration into how you can learn from art and math.

Wish Comment:
1. I would love if you connected some of these art ideas to specific curriculum expectations. I think this would help other teachers to find practical ways of applying these concepts in our own teaching practice.

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Star Comments:
1. I like your detailed explanations of the coding you carried out on R, including the code itself and associated graphs. This made it easy to follow along with what you were working on and associate your learning with what you are developing. The descriptions also helped a 'coding noob' like me to understand what the codes mean.
2. Your breakdown of the goals you wish to achieve through coding on R set yourself up for a nicely structures investigation. I appreciate that this breadth of topics will help to tackle your overall question.

Wish Comment:
1. I would love if you linked to more resources you are using or someone else could use in order to learn R. This could be a nice way of compiling information that your students and other teachers could use.

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Star comments:
1. I really like the layout of your blog and I think you have a really nice organized way of explaining your ideas. Your blog is really well-designed!

2. Your writing style is really engaging and makes me want to learn more about your topic. I think you've done a great job of writing your blog in a way that is interesting!

Wish comment:
1. I would love to hear more detail about what you learned through your research. I think your blog seems to be focused more on how you present your research and less about what you learned--but I would love to hear about both of those!

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Star Comments:
1. Your project proposal is really in depth and concise at the same time. You've given readers all the relevant information they need to understand what's happening in your project. Your work is well written and well organized. Well done!

2. In your posts, you also have a concise writing style and you're able to switch between code and text on and off to explain clearly what's going on in the code. This is really helpful for me since I don't know coding very well, but I'm still able to follow along with your blog.

Wish Comment:
I wish you had posted more content and had more posts to scroll through! I also was wondering about studying quadratics when you're original intention was to use this for MTH1W. Your post was great, but an explanation would also be really helpful.

Overall, love the blog and keep up the good work!

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Star Comment:
1. The format and design of your blog is so cute! I like the photos and bitmojis that you've used.
2. The resources you've shared are really valuable. Teaching a brand new course can be frightening even for an experienced teacher, so your blog posts are timely and important. Showing what's changed in the new Grade 9 curriculum was very helpful, and the helpful websites you've shared were intriguing to sift through.
Wish:
1. While the formatting and design of your blogs are great, it would be valuable to also include more photos/visuals that are relevant to what you're writing about.

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Star Comment:
1. I think this is a really timely topic. Incorporating coding into the classroom is a daunting task for many teachers, and therefore, your ideas are valuable to teachers who perhaps don't even know where to start.
2. I appreciate that you are conducting your research strand by strand. This helps organize the information you share with us in a way that is super meaningful for lesson and unit planning.
Wish Comment:
1. It would be cool if for one of your posts, you actually make one of the coding examples you're writing about! It's super important to gather ideas about how coding may be incorporated into the classroom, but to see an actual, developed example would be awesome!

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Star Comments
1. I really like the inquiry question you included of questioning whether connecting math to its history would improve students' conceptual understanding. I hadn't considered that as a route for improving understanding so I'm really interested to see what you find with this.

2. I really like how you shared your personal experience with math history as making a huge impact into your desire to pursue mathematics. I think it is definitely a good point that math can appear ungrounded and too theoretical at times, so the importance of creating a context definitely makes sense.

Wish Comment:
I think in many cases history is seen as a not particularly engaging or as a boring subject. I'm interested to know how you would address that concern in terms of this negative view when other subjects introduce the historic context. Maybe, this is only something you're suggesting for later year academic courses of students who would be more likely to pursue further education in math.

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Star Comment:
1. I really like your topic choice and it's applicability to both your professional development as a teacher and in connection to the development of the Ontario math curriculum (it is a weakpoint in many current teachers and therefore even more valuable for us as new teachers to have some experience.

2. I really like that you're not only exploring coding languages, but also grounding it in curriculum by researching which programs are being used. Obviously the number of languages that exist and what you can do with them is endless, so having that grounding definitely helps in making your scope manageable. Eventually the steps could involve looking into what coding universities want students to learn, but at this point researching the high school programs is perfect.

Wish Comment:
I think a very good program for you to incorporate would be Python Block Coding (called BlockPy).   Since you mentioned wanting to work your way up to using Python (which is very commonly studied in universities), this is a very good step towards that goal in using a more simplifyied version of a program that then becomes very useful for starting students off who want to continue with coding.  I taught lessons with this program on my internship, so it also is being taught in schools.

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Stars:
1. This is a great topic to look at! I like the resources that you have linked so far, I definitely plan to bookmark them for myself in the future!

2. I like that your different blog posts have grouped similar resources together to make things more cohesive. Looking into specific lesson plans and unit plans is helpful when designing lessons for a course. I have used the bnh math website for the MTH1W course in my placement and it was very helpful for unit planning!

Wish:
It would be great to see some more specific examples of how these resources could be used. You touch on general examples for each resource which is great but it would be cool to combine the information from a few of them to design a lesson or activity.

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Stars:
1. I really appreciate the topic you chose! I like that you are focusing on mathematicians who are not always shown to students. I think incorporating the history of math is important and highlighting mathematicians who students are able to identify with is even better.
2. It's great that you have included direct links between the mathematicians work and curriculum strands. This makes it easier to include math history in different math classes. I think students would benefit from having an understanding of where what they are learning came from.

Wish:
It would be great to include some extensions of how the work these mathematicians did is used today. I think students would benefit from seeing a person behind some of the ideas they are learning about as well as what else has come out of those theories/discoveries.

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1. I liked the layout of the blog and therefore was intrigued to learn more. The colours were super interesting and therefore was visually appealing.
2. I also liked the introduction post to help introduce the topic and therefore felt comfortable reading more. I also liked the activities that were included as they seemed realistic and something i would use in my future classroom.

Wishes
1. More examples to use in the future in the classroom.

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I really like the layout of the genius hour blog and find it appealing to look through. I found it extremely relatable and interesting to look at.
I also think the topic is interesting and relevant to what technology is used for within the classroom.

2. Wish to see
I wish to see  more on the topic as it is something that i am interested in and therefore want to come back to this blog.

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Star Comment:

1. I love that you have chosen to investigate coding and how to work it into the Grade 9 mathematics classroom. With the hasty implementation of the destreamed maths course, many teachers were left with little resources and information on coding, so this Genius Hour will help many teachers (myself included) in learning about coding!

2. I really liked your blog post on your experience in the Instructional Design for STEAM and Maker’s Curriculum PD session. It provided some interesting insight on activities that could be used within a coding unit.

Wish Comment:

1. I would love to see more of your practice with coding - if you could post screenshots of programs that you eventually write, I think that would be a nice touch to your blog.

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Star Comment:

1. The whole concept of your Genius Hour is…genius! I always get some variation of the question  “When are we ever going to use this?” or “Why does this matter?” from students in class. We should absolutely put a focus on real world applications of mathematics and show our students that mathematics is in fact, everywhere around us.

2. I really like how you’ve presented your blog. The theme of the blog definitely relates to the theme of your Genius Hour.

Wish Comment:

1. It would be interesting to have you post the link to your Google Site, so the audience could follow along with the progress of each topic you pursue.

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Star Comments:
1. I like how you incorporated charts and videos to improve the clarity of your blog posts.
2. I also appreciated how you introduced what you will be doing in the next week so the reader knows what to look forward to.
Wish Comment:
1. I would have liked to see your full project proposal so that I could have a better idea of your goals for this project and what your product will be.

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Star Comments:
1. I love your topic and I appreciate how relevant it is to themes that we have been talking about in class. I especially like the quote that you included about how labelling someone as a math student and non-math student is restrictive and doesn't show the growth that occurs within mathematics.
2. I like how you have added images to make your blog more visually appealing. I also like how I can hear your personality coming through within your writing it makes it much more interesting to read because this topic is clearly something your passionate about.
Wish Comment:
I wish the formatting was a little better where your profile is because it's difficult to make out your picture and name.

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1. Your topic is super relevant! I appreciate that you mention that there aren't a lot of resources out there about coding in grade 9 because the curriculum is so new - so thank you for creating one!
2. I really like how at the end of each blog post you let the reader know what's coming next week! It lets us know what to expect and rounds off your posts nicely.
Wish Comment
1. I wish that your resources within your blog posts were hyperlinked for easier access!

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Star Comment
1. Your blog posts are super well researched! You have included multiple resources for further information from a variety of sources including videos and articles. This helped me be more engaged when reading your blog posts.
2. I love the last paragraph of your blog posts where you pick out the important piece for you and mention what next week's blog post will be. This really ties everything together and lets the reader know what to expect.
Wish Comment
1. Honestly hard to think of one! Maybe fine tune your blog aesthetics like adding a relevant header photo, ensure consistency in fonts through the blog posts, etc.

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Star Comment:
1. Well done with your blog, very organized and visually appealing. The images and videos in your blogs are intriguing and well used. The posts themselves are also well written, I find it easier to read when it sounds more like a conversation and less like an info dump.
2. The motivation behind your project is awesome! Finding a way to let students explore the beauty of mathematics instead of the procedural stuff students are currently asked to focus on in high school is a great idea. I think it is going to be useful in interesting students in pursuing upper levels of mathematics.
Wish Comment:
1. Your question interesting, but wordy. It took a couple reads to process what you were asking.

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Star Comment:
1. I love the topic you've chosen! I find the history of mathematics fascinating and including it in the classroom could be a way of catching a student's interest in math. I think your focus on underrepresented mathematicians is especially valuable.
2. The image and quote of the mathematician you researched each week is a nice touch. Putting a face to a name humanizes the amazing work done by these historic mathematicians.
Wish Comment:
1. The intro in your blogs is nice, but repetitive. Some variation would be better to grab the reader at the start of your blogs.

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Star Comments:
1. I really love the idea of finding math in the real world and answering the question of "why should I care?".  Also when I saw the post on Math & the Law I was super intrigued (I took a law class in high school). Definitely a great direction for a GH project!

2. It is clear the care you take with formatting. Your blog page is very organized and I really enjoyed the About Me section you have. Makes me want to have a blurb about myself too because of the published author vibes it gives.

Wish Comments:
1. Maybe add a bit more detail about your research in your posts. Even just two more sentences talking about where you looked or what you got out of the research would help show the connections that we'll eventually see in the final product.

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Star Comment:
1. Your topic is really interesting. As someone who managed to get through a whole math degree with no math history courses, I'm really curious to read more. It is a very relevant topic, especially with the de-streamed Grade 9 curriculum introducing more math history.

2. Your GH question is very well put. I know exactly what your aim is and what you're curious about.

Wish Comment:
1. I'd like to see more about your project - what are you researching right now? Once those next blog posts go up I'll definitely be checking back in (hopefully you got your laptop back and working!).

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Star Comment:
1.  I like that the code is shared and done in a font to show it is separated from the rest of your post. It stands out at a glance making it easy to follow when you are sharing code as opposed to other information. It also makes it easy to try on your own as a reader to learn along with your blog and see the results on their screen and compare it to the images you share. It is a very good format for your topic.

2. I like the variety of examples you show the explanations for how to make each case. Not only does it give useful information it makes the post easy to follow and flow from case to case. In the main post I read you used the different graphs for representing data.

Wish Comment:
1. The format is really good so maybe as more of an extension of what your doing in your "things i learned section" you could keep a running tally of the different topics you have covered to keep readers caught up with each post. Or maybe a "things i still need to learn" or something like that where you list what is needed to be done in future weeks. That way we know where things are working to and slowly as the list of what's needed shrinks we will know we are getting to the end of the project.

Great blog and a useful topic to how math is evolving in high school curriculum. Keep up the great work!

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Star Comment:
1. Firstly, I love your GH Question! It is very unique (I would have never thought of it) and I am very excited to see the results that you will find with it throughout the year!!

2. I really liked how you talked about the classroom designs that are most effective AND provided pictures! I think the images are really a great way to convey meaning and show what your blog source was talking about.

Wish Comment
1. Perhaps you could add more creative titles to your blog posts to make them more specific.

Otherwise, wonderful job and I am excited to read more as the year continues. :)

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Star Comment:
1. I like how you are using Growing Success as your master document when specifically looking at the 7 Fundamental Processes. This is an excellent document and one that we should all be familiar with/constantly look back to!

2. I like how your blogs are splitting up the 7 Principals since putting them all together into one would be a lot of information. This was you can break them up and dive deeply into each one.

Wish Comment
1.  Maybe adding a references section at the bottom of each blog would be a good way of keeping track of sources/showing us the ones you used.

Overall, great job Em :)

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Stars:
1. I love the topic that you chose to follow. I think assessment is a part of math education that is extremely important. Without good assessment, how can be know if students are successful or not? I can't wait to see all the assessment ideas that you have to share.

2. I really enjoyed your idea of incorporating self-assessment in the math classroom. Having students be able to self reflect on their experiences in the math classroom can help them find which ways they learn best and hopefully help them be more successful.

Wish:
1. I love the direction in which your blog is going and the only thing that I want to suggest is once you enter your placement, maybe try out some of these techniques and then reflect on how the assessment tools went in your blog!

Great blog so far!

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Stars:
1. I really enjoyed your topic on finding ways to increase student motivation in the mathematics classroom. I find that keeping students motivated can sometimes be critical to their success.

2. I love your eagerness to read and summarize a chapter every week! I'm not much of a reader myself, but I think a lot of us will benefit from reading your blogs and learning from your summaries instead of reading ourselves.

Wish:

1. Your genius hour blog is very well done and my only wish would be to make sure you take breaks wherever you can! I'm going to enjoy reading your blogs and I hope you don't get burnt out by the end of the year!

Great genius hour project!

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1. I like the question and how it doesn't directly relate to math but rather the ideal environment that facilitates mathematics learning. I think this is very creative.
2. I liked the setup of the blog and the color scheme and pictures that you include in your posts. I think that adding images is key for understanding.
3. I wish that there was more mathematics application to the question rather than environment only although it is very creative.

Overall it is awesome!
I also did not have anyone below me in the order.

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Star Comments
1. Your topic is amazing! It is so prevalent in all math classrooms and it is important to talk about it. I love the poster you shared in your project proposal – when I first looked at it, I thought that it was going to be something that separated ‘math people’ from ‘non-math people’, but it was so refreshing to see something posted in a math classroom that shows students that there is no such thing as a ‘math person’, but rather just a person who does math!

2. I really liked how you started by just researching ‘math person’. This really sets the basis of your research well as you are able to see what is out there regarding what a ‘math person’ is, and if it follows your thought process, which it looks like it did! I specifically loved when you said “I want students to know they have autonomy over their learning”. This is super important in ensuring students know they are in charge of their success, not a stigma.

Wish Comment:
I would love to see more visuals on your topic, maybe a video or some more pictures to emphasize and support your points would be super beneficial!

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Star Comment:
1. I love your topic! I think it is super important and not talked about enough. I particularly like how you mention that educators teach more than just the curriculum- because teachers are definitely role models for students, and it is important that we emulate a safe classroom environment for all students.

2. I like how you shared a book as a resource! Especially since the book is specific to high school mathematics. Additionally, its super great how you shared an example of a previous math class you took that touches on     stolen theorems, this is a great segway into interesting discussions.

Wish Comment:
I think you’re missing the pages of your blog (home, project proposal, TedTalk, product, project reflection). I would have loved to read your project proposal to see why you chose the topic of social justice issues and mathematics.

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Stars:
1. Your Genius Hour question is very creative and one that I did not think of. I am interested in what your final product will look like.

2. I like how you are going to find maps of the Niagara area to be able to make these questions relatable to the students you will be teaching. By doing this, it should increase students intrinsic motivation to completing these questions.

Wish:
1. One thing I could not seem to find was your blog's pages. I was interested to see your project proposal. You may have to go into your blogs layout settings to let others view your pages.

Overall, great job so far Ethan!

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Stars:
1. I love the topic you chose and I believe that making math exciting and engaging is so important for student motivation and overall enjoyment. Your blog #2 on whiteboards is something I have been researching for my own Genius Hour Question. This blog was very helpful for my own project, thanks!

2.  I liked how you setup your blog. You made your blog visually appealing in a way that it is easy to read. You use media (pictures, videos, etc.) that makes your blog interesting to read. Well done!

Wish:
1. One thing I can suggest is rather than providing the link to your videos within your blogs is embedding the video into your blog.

Overall, great job Cam!

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Star Comments:
1) I like the topic you choose for your genius hour project. I am interested in seeing what you find that makes mathematics more engaging for our students.

2) I think you are doing a great job gathering research and information from different areas: videos, journals, etc. It is neat to see a wide perspective of research and opinions on what makes math engaging.

Wish Comment:
1) The only thing I can think of on how to improve your project is perhaps to create a more detailed outline of when you want to start working on your final product.

An overall great genius hour so far! I am excited to see what tips and tricks you come up with and find on how to make mathematics more engaging.

Written Oct 13, 2022
-Angela

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Star Comments:
1) I really like your topic and cannot wait to see what your process and the final product will look like. I think a lot of students would enjoy problems or applications of mathematics that involves music.

2) I love the general setup of your blog. How you are creating a free space to explore the connections between math and music. Have no strict rules on what you will create.

Wish Comment:
1) Only thing I can think of that would improve your project is perhaps creating a more detailed timeline in your proposal. For instance, what week would you start to work on your website etc.

Overall great blog and a genius hour project. I am excited to see the end results.

Written Oct 13, 2022
-Angela

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Star Comment:
1. This is very important idea, learning about methods and approaches to implement coding to the curriculum.
2. Teaching mathematics grade 9, de-stream is a new challenge. Coding component is not well defined, and it might be overwhelming for new teachers, and students. learning those techniques will be helping to support the coding needs of students for the post-secondary schools.
Wish Comment
1. You may add more interactive visualization on the pages, adding some photos, etc.