97.5 of the world’s water is salinated. Of the 2.5% that’s fresh, over 99% is trapped in glaciers and snowfields. It total only .025% of the water on the globe is actually drinkable by humans and animals.
“Turning the Abstract Into Something Concrete”
Heath and Starr, Making Numbers Count, 2022
Imagine a gallon jug filled with water with three ice cubes next to it. All of the water in the jug is salt water. The ice cubes are the only fresh water, and humans can only drink the drops that are melting off of each.
Heath and Starr, 2022
The distance to the nearest solar system is 4.25 light-years
Heath and Starr, 2022
How far away is the nearest star from us? Well, imagine shrinking the solar system down to the size of a quarter. You leave quarter at the goalpost of a soccer field and walk toward the goalpost at the other end of the field. When you reach it, drop another quarter to represent the solar system of the nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri. Everything between the quarters is just cold, dark space.
Heath and Starr, 2022
Heath and Starr, 2022
Anthony Bloome
Executive Director,
mEducation Alliance
Math Power! Joyful Math
Overview of the mEducation Alliance
mEducation Alliance strategic Goals
Convening
We bring together policymakers, donors, investors, governments, researchers - and kids to advance appropriate tech and low/non-tech solutions
Communicating
Sharing good practices within a global community.
Catalyzing
Accelerating investments and the scaling of promising interventions and initiatives.
Community Building
Bringing together leading Education organizations with common interests.
A range of tech and non-tech math interventions:
Literacy App Developers
Global Math Champions
Communities of Practice
Coming soon!
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StoryTelling and Problem-Solving
Storytelling
EscapeIF:
Reflection to connect concepts to prior learning
Types of Games
Dice Game
Cognitive Skills: Problem-Solving, Reasoning, and Communication
Bonus website: Mathdice.com
Dice Game
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Target Number (e.g., 9, 20)
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Scoring Numbers
2) Either Player Calls Out Math Expressions that get closest to the target number (e.g., 9)
3) Wait 30 seconds for the other player to come up with their own math expressions
Target Number
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Target Number
Scoring Numbers
Your Turn!
30
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
“Sunny Days Ahead” script
30%
Keza: Dad, I think we should plan an outdoor lunch for our neighbours to say thank you for their help with the farm!
Dad: That’s a wonderful idea, Keza. We should plan it on a day that will be sunny.
Keza: How do we do that? By looking at the sky?
Dad: Well, it can sometimes be hard to tell by simply looking at the sky! Did you know that we can use the maths we’ve learned?
Keza: How?!
Dad: It is Friday now. Let’s look at the weather from earlier this week and count how many days it rained.
Keza: Hmm… Out of the 4 days from Monday to Thursday, it rained on 3 of them.
Dad: That’s right. So what was the percentage of rainy days last week if it rained 3 out of 4 days: 30% or 75%?
Narrator: What do you think?
75%
More Information?
Hummingbirds weigh about 3 grams and consume between 3 and 7 calories a day, making their metabolisms nearly 50 times faster than humans
Heath and Starr, 2022
A hummingbird’s metabolism is so fast that, if it were the size of an average adult human male, it would need to consume slightly more than a Coke every waking minute – 67 cokes an hour, for 16 hours a day
Heath and Starr, 2022