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I could never be a teacher. I am really not that tough.
Being up at 5 each morning sounds really really rough.
Teaching, planning, grading, testing... For a day that's too much stuff.
Parents and administration would no doubt make me gruff.
I could never be a teacher. It just doesn't pay enough.

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Key Understandings

• Understand the structure/behavior of exponential functions in relation to linear functions. (Linear functions/arithmetic sequences change by a common difference. Exponential functions/geometric sequences change by a common ratio.)
• Understand the characteristics of exponential graphs and tables, including how these characteristics appear in equations.

Activities

1 What happens if growth is multiplicative rather than additive?

https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/56c7457e11c7724106e683b1

The bundle opens with a modeling task that builds on students’ understanding of linear growth and uses that understanding—along with a playful context—to launch into an informal exploration of exponential growth. The emphasis here is on tables and graphs.

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Linear Bundle

Key Understandings

• Rates of change express themselves as slope of a line, and as a coefficient of x in a linear equation.
• Y-intercepts express themselves as constants in linear equations.

Activities

This bundle presumes that students have some experience with the coordinate plane, and with plotting points on the coordinate plane. They have not mastered the relationship between any of the forms of a linear equation and the associated graph. They may not know the terms slope or y-intercept. They have worked with algebraic variables. They know quite a bit about proportionality in general and rates in particular.

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Files

First things first, I want to use ag to search through my project files. Coming from fzf, I like to have two bindings for this -- one that respects my projects .gitignore and one that does not. The latter is helpful if I want to examine a built file or look at a node_module dependency while working on my js project.

I use an alias for file_rec source to toggle the -u flag on ag. Now, <C-P> searches in my git files, and <C-O> searches everything.

" denite file search (c-p uses gitignore, c-o looks at everything)
map <C-P> :DeniteProjectDir -buffer-name=git -direction=top file_rec/git<CR>
map  :DeniteProjectDir -buffer-name=files -direction=top file_rec

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-- an example of how to derive a show instance for a Maybe type
-- not totally sure why `derive instance showMyMaybe :: (Show a) => Show (MyMaybe a)` errors with...
-- error: CannotDerive :
-- Cannot derive a type class instance for Data.Show.Show (MyMaybe a) since instances of this type class are not derivable.
module Main where

import Prelude

import Control.Monad.Eff (Eff)
import Control.Monad.Eff.Console (CONSOLE, log)

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As I mentioned at the start of our time with Snap, there were two primary goals in working through these first few labs, and that is to get acquainted with repetition statements (repeat, forever...) and to learn about defining your own custom blocks and parameters. This ability to group and name pieces of code is the foundation of computer science, and starts to get at the idea of what it truly means to build abstractions.

If I had to summarize computer science in one sentence it would be "To notice and exploit structure to solve problems". I think this will sound familiar to a math educator - this is how we solve problems in any field, after all. Even so, I think it is useful to consider how this idea relates to this particular context.

1. Modularity (or, orthogonality). Programmers seek to separate problems into small, independent pieces. In a large system, you want to be able to modify an individual piece of code without having to grasp the entire system. This is the only way to solve complic

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One of those things that's incredibly useful, but not built in... I figure others may be googling for this one day.

I found the source for https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-pux/11.0.0/docs/Pux.DOM.History very useful!

Here is a commit adding it to my app: https://github.com/dlants/doodleometry/commit/43d38a3d6d4c8c755cdbe63b690837bdd2085a93

module SampleWindow (sampleWindowSize) where

import Control.Alternative (pure)

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Here's a great question from an essay by mathematician Paul Lockheart called "Mathematician's Lament" https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

One interesting way to think about numbers is as piles of stones. So, instead of thinking of the number 3, you can imagine three stones in your mind, or draw three dots on a piece of paper.

Thinking about numbers in this way can be useful because of the different ways we can arrange the stones. A 3 can be arranged with all stones in a row ..., or as a triangle :.. By considering these arrangements, we have a different way of thinking about the number.

So, for instance -- if you take an even number, you'll be able to arrange the stones into two equal rows. For an odd number, one of the rows will have a stone that doesn't have a match:

6 :::
9 ::::.

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