Exploding Dots
Overview
MARCH 2020
Dear Friends,.We at the Global Math Project trust all is well with one and all, as best as can be, with health and precautions to remain healthy and with keeping the virus contained. It is affecting many, I know, not just physically, but also psychologically and financially..Many schools and universities across the globe are closed at present, and many educators are scrambling to conduct classes as best they can online. Very tricky..If you are here looking for some online options, consider looking at this document outlining a coherent self-guided Exploding Dots experience.EXPLODING DOTS for March 2020
Wishing everyone well..James, and the GMP team.***
A global phenomenon is underway. Pure math joy is sweeping the planet! Read about it here.
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Over a 5.9 million students and teachers from 170 different countries and territories have experienced the uplifting joy of Exploding Dots.
96.8% of teachers agreed or strongly agreed that Exploding Dots helped students see mathematics as more approachable, 96.6% as more enjoyable, 96.1% as making sense, and 93.1% as helping students be more confident in mathematics.
75.5% of teachers said that Exploding Dots changed their own perception of mathematics in some way with 97.7% agreeing or strongly agreeing that Exploding Dots made mathematics more enjoyable, 97.3% as more approachable, and 96.0% as more understandable.
You too can enjoy the wonders of Exploding Dots!
LOW TECH: Enjoy the videos and written content below!
NO TECH: Download our teaching guides HERE.
HIGH TECH: Enjoy the wildly popular Exploding Dots WEB APP powered by Scolab. Count classroom KAPOWS!
Learn about the GLOBAL MATH PROJECT and all the math joy we offer the world!
Early support for the development of this work was graciously given by the Edward E. Ford Foundation.
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Lessons
1.0 EXPERIENCE ONE: The Machines |
1.1 Welcome |
1.2 The 1←21←2 Machine |
1.3 Other Machines |
1.4 The 1←101←10 Machine |
1.5 Wild Explorations |
1.6 Solutions |
2.0 EXPERIENCE TWO: Insight |
3.0 EXPERIENCE THREE: Addition and Multiplication |
4.0 EXPERIENCE FOUR: Subtraction |
5.0 EXPERIENCE FIVE: Division |
6.0 EXPERIENCE SIX: All Bases, All at Once: Polynomials |
7.0 EXPERIENCE SEVEN: Infinite Sums |
8.0 EXPERIENCE EIGHT: Decimals |
9.0 EXPERIENCE NINE: Weird and Wild Machines |
10.0 EXPERIENCE TEN: Unusual Mathematics for Unusual Numbers |
11.0 EXPERIENCE 11: Grape Codes & Napier’s Checkerboard |
12.0 MAKE SPACE with EXPLODING DOTS |
13.0 Kids Explain Math to Kids |
14.0 Web Apps and Tools: Where to Play with Machines Online |
15.0 ChipChip: A Game Invented by Jim Propp and powered by Happy Numbers |
100.0 Where did these ideas come from? |
Resources
Take your understanding to the next level with easy to understand books by James Tanton.BROWSE BOOKS
Dive deeper into key topics through detailed, easy to follow guides and solution sets.BROWSE GUIDES