Upward Bound

Below you'll find materials used for Upward Bound in the summer of 2023.

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Independent Learning

• Mathigon
• Khan Academy
• Sine Rider

Videos

• vlogbrothers - An Open Letter to Students Returning to School
• ShareAmerica - President Obama on the Importance of Education
• TED-Ed - The Satisfying Math of Folding Origami
• engineerguy - Why the Other Line is Likely to Move Faster
• The Why Files - 15 Mind Blowing Math Facts
• TED-Ed - Where Do Math Symbols Come From?
• TED-Ed - A Brief History of Numerical Systems
• Be Smart - A Brief History of (Keeping) Time
• TED-Ed - Pixar: The Math Behind the Movies
• Be Smart - The History of Money (From Barter to Bitcoin)
• Two Cents - How Money Created Math
• Vox - Why "Buy One, Get One Free" isn't a Great Deal
• Two Cents - How Do Tax Brackets Actually Work?
• Big Think - Let's Stop Hating Math
• Big Think - Anyone Can Be a Math Person Once They Know the Best Learning Techniques
• Code.org - How Computers Work: Binary & Data
• Udacity - How Do Computers Store Images?
• Code.org - Images, Pixels and RGB

Class Activities & Practice

• Quizizz - Geometry Review
• Quizizz - Geometry Review MMQs
• Quizizz - Trigonometry
• Gimkit - Mega Math Practice
• Kahoot - Money Math

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Upward Bound - Summer of 2022

Independent Learning

• Mathigon
• Khan Academy
• Code.org - Hour of Code Activities

Videos

• vlogbrothers - An Open Letter to Students Returning to School
• John Green - The Test
• TED-Ed - Why can't you divide by zero?
• TED-Ed - The mathematical secrets of Pascal's triangle
• Veritasium - How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
• Abbott and Costello - 7 times 13 is 28
• CrashCourse - Representing Numbers and Letters with Binary: Crash Course Computer Science #4
• Code.org - How Computers Work: Binary & Data
• Tom Scott - Will YouTube Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?
• TED-Ed - Check your intuition: The birthday problem
• TED-Ed - How to spot a misleading graph
• TED-Ed - How statistics can be misleading
• Veritasium - How We're Fooled By Statistics

Podcast

• Radiolab - Stochasticity

Class Activities & Practice

• Quizlet - Vocabulary Practice
• Quizizz - Fractions
• Gimkit - Mega Vocab Review
• Gimkit - Mega Math Practice
• Quizizz - Money Math
• Quizizz - Misleading Graphs and Statistics
• Kahoot - Money Math
• Baamboozle - Math Fun
• Baamboozle - Binary System

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