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Girls Excel in Math camp is coming up July 17-19 for middle school girls interested in STEM! Available to girls in 4th through 6th grade. Join us for hands on activities led by amazing women here at the U of M.
Check out the link in our bio for more information and registration.
<RUN>:\THE\WORLD Machine Learning Summer Day Camp empowers high school students to pursue STEM education by introducing them to cutting-edge machine learning technologies and applications that make a difference in the world. Seats are limited! Visit z.umn.edu/ML2024.
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ALT Ramsey Theory visual explanation from Professor Rich Wolski at UCSB: https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/class/cs293-cloud/notes/Ramsey/index.html
Looking to get students working in different groups, getting to know each other better, and engaging productively in a real mathematical problem -- while hiding the theorem until the end, when you connect their experiences to the math? Look no farther! ❓🙋z.umn.edu/mathcepblog
Looking for a way to engage your 3rd-8th graders in learning about fractions in a way that develops their conceptual understanding?👨🏫 📝Lessons from The Rational Number Project are this month's Highlighted Resource: z.umn.edu/tchrec #MathCEP #umn @UMN_CEHD @UMN_CI @mctm_mn
ALT Example problem from the worksheets available on the Rational Number Project.
Oh, my! Mad Scientist, Prof. A, switched brains with Graduate Student B, but when the brain-swap machine didn't work the same pair of bodies, they lured Undergraduate C into the mix. What do they need to do to swap back? 🧑🔬🧠⚡️ Math Problem No. 6 is up at: z.umn.edu/mathcepblog
This week, we published part one of our four-part series on strategies on icebreakers that get students working together and engaging in mathematical problem-solving from the very first day of class. Part 1? Math Review Dominoes! Check them out: z.umn.edu/mathcepblog #mathcep
For Math Puzzle No. 5, we meet a damsel in shining armor who needs to cross a moat filled with terrifying, hungry alligators to rescue a knight in distress. 😨🏰🐊🌊🚶♀️ How does she do it? Find out more details at z.umn.edu/mathcepblog #mathcep #math @MathCEP @umnmathlib @UMNCSE
From the 2020 census, Minnesota will receive between 7 and 8 representatives in Congress. How do we find out whether to round up or round down? 🏛️📈📉 Which way will it go, and how do we figure that out? All discussed in our January Resource: z.umn.edu/tchrec #MathCEP #umn
Happy New Year!🎉The solution to our Ten Divisibilities Math Puzzle is posted on our Blog at z.umn.edu/10divisibilities. In 2020, we posted about a MathCEP Director Receiving a Wolfram Research Innovator Award & Teaching During the Pandemic, plus 3 math puzzles. More to come in '21!
ALT Text of the following: a is divisible by 1 ab is divisible by 2 abc is divisible by 3 abcd is divisible by 4 abcde is divisible by 5 abcdef is divisible by 6 abcdefg is divisible by 7 abcdefgh is divisible by 8 abcdefghi is divisible by 9 abcdefghij is divisible by 10