These two blogs are ones that could be used by students in one of my math classes. Both sites post data in a variety of interesting formats to illustrate mathematical ideas and really visualize what the data is telling us. These would both be great resources of starting points for projects as well as examples of class topics using real world data. These blogs would help students to see math in their daily lives and make connections to the class content.
For example, we talk about Venn diagrams in my liberal arts math class, and the examples in the text always feel very contrived and boring...but what's more fun than looking at who can catch which flu virus: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/which-flu-virus/
If students were going to be creating their own blogs or wikis, some free resources include:
- Free blogs at http://www.edublogs.org or http://wordpress.com/ or http://www.blogger.com
- Free wikis at http://www.wikispaces.com/ or http://pbwiki.com or http://bluwiki.com/
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