{"id":1194,"date":"2021-03-30T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothermath.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2021-03-30T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:44:24","slug":"mathigon-my-new-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/mathigon-my-new-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathigon&#8230;my new love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ezgif.com-gif-maker.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1195 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ezgif.com-gif-maker-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ezgif.com-gif-maker-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ezgif.com-gif-maker.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Perhaps a few years ago (maybe 2018?) I first bumped into Mathigon. It was a beautifully designed website calling itself the &#8220;Textbook of the Future&#8221;. The books, games, and virtual manipulatives are so wonderfully created that they make math look joyful&#8230;which it is! Well&#8230;Mathigon continues to add to its website, making it one of the most useful websites for teaching math. Please give it a visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathigon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/mathigon.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Especially, play with the Polypad, which is an incredibly versatile virtual manipulative that both students and teachers will enjoy using.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathigon.org\/polypad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/mathigon.org\/polypad<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Holy moly&#8230;if you haven&#39;t discovered the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MathigonOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MathigonOrg<\/a> Polypad yet&#8230;take a moment (or several) to play with it. It can become a POWERFUL tool in your teaching toolkit. Cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/etietjen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@etietjen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amberms79?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amberms79<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lq4epZsqMa\">https:\/\/t.co\/lq4epZsqMa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VfcogBy070\">pic.twitter.com\/VfcogBy070<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; duane habecker (@dhabecker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhabecker\/status\/1376915243595538433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps a few years ago (maybe 2018?) I first bumped into Mathigon. It was a beautifully designed website calling itself the &#8220;Textbook of the Future&#8221;. The books, games, and virtual manipulatives are so wonderfully created that they make math look joyful&#8230;which it is! Well&#8230;Mathigon continues to add to its website, making it one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}