K12 – Page 2 – The Tech Wolves Center for Excellence in Art and Life

Snaking a boolean way.

April 7, 2021April 14, 2021 DWallace

Ratatouille totally makes for a more fun time talking about these basic identifiers of sets. Intersections and Unions trip most everyone up somewhere along the line. https://www.mathsisfun.com/sets/venn-diagrams.html is a great set of notes to go along with the video. The three basic logic gates in this game are And, Or, and Not. For And to be true, both things must be. For Or to be True, only one must. Not asks for the other. Thanks to msarica for the original project Logic Gates Game. Binary is the way computers count because switches are…

Circling the Equator

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 DWallace

We discuss a fun math problem and look at circles. There is some other stuff in there. For those working on circles and circumferences, radius, and pi type things, this little problem is quite an excellent study to the primary things one needs to know, so they say. Needless to say, there is more to that path of maths at algebrawesome.

Memphis Councilman Dr. Jeff Warren talks Covid and kindness.

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 DWallace

We had the chance to sit down with Memphis City Councilman, Dr. Jeff Warren, and listen to him talk about what people should be doing in regards to health and this virus.

Nate the Great

April 7, 2021April 24, 2021 DWallace

Nathanial Arrington Crawford killed himself a few weeks back. Most of y’all have no idea who he was or is, really. I know I don’t. I was talking with a dear friend and fellow teacher about it and neither of us was shocked by the happening. Saddened, hurt, or otherwise unsure of what to do but not shocked. We knew him as he was breaking out of the blocks with forward the only way and watched from a too close distance as humanity undid itself on him. Nate was an…