A website that collects math stories that happened to different people in different places
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Community Review for Mathkind
My Take
It can be a decent reading teaching tool for students to explore their views on math. These articles require some reading ability and vocabulary so it's best for grade 7 to grade 12.
How I Use It
There isn't any special, this website consists of many match stories that happened in different places. It's a great website to be used in a non-academic course to let students read these stories themselves and discuss their own thoughts.
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RAMY W.
February 15, 2021
Concise, engaging articles accompanied by questions- A simple and effective learning tool.
The articles are concise yet still in depth, but that being said, there's a bit too much supplementary information for simple math questions. It would make more sense in the context of social justice, though. While the sample problems for math resources are good, you don't necessarily need to read the article in order to answer them, which leads me to believe students might skip/skim through and only look for bits of information (i.e. the number of residences to answer question 2 for "The World's Tallest Building").
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