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Secondary Mathematics and the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Copy of Olympics 2016Rio 2016 offers for those who are beginning school now the perfect opportunity to incorporate current events into their mathematics classroom. Check out this week’s free activity for secondary students, and older intermediate students. A look at the Olympic circles in light of the 4 Color Theorem, a map of the world and tracking the path of the torch are but a couple of the offerings suggested in this short activity packet.

Be sure to check out the official Olympic website:

https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016

As well as their educational program:

https://www.olympic.org/olympic-values-and-education-program

and the offerings this month from NRich:

http://nrich.maths.org/teacher-primary

http://nrich.maths.org/teacher-secondary

Enjoy!

NCTM, San Francisco

My colleagues and I really enjoyed your presentation at NCTM.  We have already convinced our principal to pre-order us copies of your new book, but we would also like 4 class sets of the pyramids. 

Many presentations talked about problem solving and the benefits of giving students higher level thinking problems, but yours was the only one that really told us how to teach it and scaffold it for students, rather than just modeling what problem-solving looks likes.  Thanks.

Julie Jacewicz
Beaverton, OR

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