Join a week-long professional development for middle and high school mathematics and arts integration teachers to learn how to use physical problem solving to teach mathematical concepts. Selected participants will receive stipend. Contact Rachel Bachman (rachelbachman1@weber.edu) or Erik Stern (estern@weber.edu). More information: https://www.weber.edu/csme/mathplusdance.html
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah from 11–15 June, 2018.
CONGRATULATIONS, Tim Bell!! The 2018 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education has been awarded to Professor Tim Bell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Tim and Mike Fellows and Ian Witten authored “Computer Science Unplugged” (csunplugged.org). Computational thinking has been infused into schools around the world as a result. Tim is a Keynote Speaker at the Creative Mathematical Sciences Communication Conference (CMSC4) in New Zealand 21-24 July 2018. All welcome. There will be an FPT Workshop adjacent to CMSC4. See cmsc.nz
Subject: [CS4HS] New Edulist for VCE Algorithmics
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A new Edulist has now been set up for VCE Algorithmics (thanks to
Kevork Krozian).
Please subscribe to this list for updates about this new study:
http://www.edulists.com.au/mailman/listinfo/vcealgorithmics
Basic information about the study is also available at the following URL:
http://www.cis.unimelb.edu.au/schools/algorithmics.html
-Steven Bird
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by Mike Fellows and Frances Rosamond
Colouring a graph properly (no adjacent vertices can receive the same colour) is important in scheduling (classrooms, jobs, exams, resources). The vertices represent the jobs. An edge between two vertices indicates a conflict. Colours are the timeslots. Two jobs cannot be assigned the same timeslot or else they will be in conflict (both rely on a shared resource, for example).
Colouring a graph leads us to a Rainbow Serpent story. The snake has colourful stripes like a rainbow. Like a rainbow, no two colours are repeated (i.e., no two adjacent stripes have the same colour). Rainbow Serpent likes to be present and observe everything, but remain hidden. Sometimes the Rainbow Serpent will surface to talk to the people and teach them. The vertices on the graph represent places where the snake might be. If two adjacent vertices are coloured the same, then we know the snake is not there. In order to see Rainbow Serpent, colours must not be repeated. Continue reading Rainbow Serpent: Connecting Mathematics and Aboriginal Culture
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/28-tools-learn-computer-programming-edshelf/
By Verena Specht-Ronique
We used a sorting network for a street performance that was performed in front of the Frankfurt stock market. The idea was to juxtapose the homeless of the city with bankers. The slogan of the performance was: It‘s always worth looking behind the façade. Our aim was to look for a way to unmask or break both the social roles of the homeless and the bankers. We showed by very simple means a theatrical metamorphosis from a homeless person to a banker and vice versa.
Great Unplugged! morning with the Northern Territory Association for Gifted and Talented, held at ACIKE, CDU. Find activities at http://csunplugged.org. Books can be obtained for $10 from Jodi Brown, President NTAEGT via email on president@ntaegt.org.au.
