You've got to check these out! They are animations Jose is working on at
ThinkFun. They make me laugh every time I watch them! There are three of them.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThinkFunGameClubIf you know other
ThinkFun games that you'd suggest great quirky music for, please pass it along to me! We're trying to think of great music like this for all the other 21 games in the Game Club program.
I could totally see teachers using
these animations or "game videos" to show their classes when they're learning how to play the games.
They are also posted on our website
http://www.thinkfungameclub.com/ under the Games menu of "How to Play" for each of the three games.
It's very cool!
Exciting news, going back to Indiana University next month. Can't wait to see Jerry's puzzle museum and if it's changed from last year.
Going to Waterloo for the weekend to see my U of Waterloo contest writing friends. This is twice a year and I absolutely love this group of people. My committee is wonderful and its so nice to sit amongst others who love to do math problems as much as I do. Even if they always smoke me. I aspire to be 1/10th as smart as they! Below is a photo from 2005. These are two mathematicians I truly admire. Peter Crippin, on the left, at this time was the Director of the Centre at U of Waterloo. Ian Vanderburgh, on the right, is the Director now. What are we wearing you ask? Well, these are Klein Bottle hats of course. My mom knitted these mathematical phenomenons!
Also traveling to Houston, Texas at the end of November. Our second NCTM conference. I will look forward to talking with other teachers and conversing about Game Club.
At the end of this week I am going to Nova Scotia. Very excited to be asked to go there to speak at a conference on behalf of SNAP Math Fairs. We're heading East! I'm hoping that some teachers will be inspired and want to do math fairs there.
I'm also excited to be going to speak to the faculty at Ambrae Academy in Halifax. This is the school where my good friend Barb Leighton has moved back to. It would be incredible if their staff began to do math fairs.
And since my mom's family is from Halifax, my whole family is joining me in Halifax where we will spend a week on vacation. My husband has threatened that I must turn work off for the week. I'm a little nervous about this but he is right, of course, and I'm looking forward to spending this week together and visiting with all my wonderful family in Nova Scotia.
Have you ever felt like you're on the verge of something amazing? I feel this with work. I really believe that its going to change things, I'm just so darned impatient that I want it all to happen now, whether we're ready or not! Patience Tanya ... ready or not, here we come!
I'm so lucky to be working with such an incredible team. And all the ThinkFun people made this happen. They are a very strong and dedicated group!