Monday, June 5, 2017

Euclid's Algorithm



This tool for visualizing of Euclid's algorithm (programmed by Jason Davies) comes from Underground Mathematics. Fawn Nguyen has written a fabulous narrative on how she used it as a notice-and-wonder activity with her sixth graders. What she did would work just as well with high school students. All you need to get started are two positive whole numbers.

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Snail's Trail Quilt Square

I created this GeoGebra applet based on a quilt square pattern to use in a precalculus class as a visual introduction to the sum of an infinite geometric series. A nice accompaniment is this applet from Irina Boyadzhiev. I also created a Desmos activity with a focus on asking questions which incorporates these two applets.