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Link to New Course outline - it's a [|googledoc]! This outline is from May, and we've changed a lot of things, so it's approximately 70% accurate... ;-) = =

• July 11, 2012 – Intuition Gone Awry: Puzzles that S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Mind • June 6, 2012 – [|Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing] • May 2, 2012 – [|Shape Transformers: Forms That Fold Two Ways] • April 4, 2012 – Proofs from The BOOK: Putting Pieces Together • March 7, 2012 – [|ABC Easy as 123] • February 1, 2012 – [|The Shape of Space] • January 4, 2012 – Revolution and Evolution in Math and Design • December 7, 2011 – [|Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling] • November 2, 2011 – [|Creating the Illusion of Life with Math & Programming] • October 5, 2011 – [|Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama] • September 6-7, 2011 – [|Fibonacci & the Golden Ratio Exposed] • July 6, 2011 – Points to Paints • June 8, 2011 – [|Soap Bubbles and Mathematics] • May 4, 2011 – [|The Man Who Loved Only Numbers] • April 7, 2011 – [|Symmetry, Art, & Illusion] • March 3-4, 2011 – [|The Geometry of Origami]
 * __Math Encounters Series @ Math Museum in NY__**

Betty & Grace's resources that don't have a home on a page yet:
[|plus.maths.org] is an amazing website with tons of articles, tidbits, lesson ideas - from the UK, all about cool interesting math stuff - both theoretical and applied. lots good for high schoolers.

NASA website with activities for math teachers: NASA for Educators

Cool stuff: series of NYTimes columns by Steven Strogatz: @http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/series/steven_strogatz_on_the_elements_of_math/index.html Math Munch blog: cool stuff about math curated by math teachers in Brooklyn look up video of glaciers calving or iceberg turning over [|starling video] - what's the math behind murmurations? vi hart videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/vihart?feature=results_main juggling video of Nicolai Pirak on math 4 love website sharpe brothers street performing act video more videos on their website here zebra video - on grace's phone TedTalks- find good ones here //Seeing Numbers// article. Ivan M. Havel. (visualizing numbers with savants). The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011. Abacus How-to: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/ AMS Math Digest summarizes current math in the media - blog posts, articles, research findings, etc. link to physics of a ponytail article @http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17012795 pasta by design - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/science/pasta-inspires-scientists-to-use-their-noodle.html?_r=0# @http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/using-his-noodle/

Games & Puzzles:

[|Math by Numbers] : Fibonacci numbers and golden ratio examples, 3 min [|More Fibonacci facts]

History of Mathematics Biographies: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/ Math Fun Facts: math.hmc.edu/funfacts

@http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=all