Happy Eid

“𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗘𝗶𝗱 ” ❌
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Yeah because of COVID-19 we can’t hang out 🎈 but we can stay home safe and enjoy eid with our families ❣️💃🏻
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You can enjoy Eid at home👩🏻‍💻 #Happiness is a choice🔥
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ᕼᗩᑭᑭY 🍄ᗴIᗪ ᗯITᕼ ᑕOᖇOᑎᗩ ᐯIᗷᗴS 👽😹

Coronavirus

COVID-19 👽

May we all go through this phase steadily & united. 

Stay safe, stay indoors😷

Ray of hope and lots of faith💖💖

Medical Alert Devices for Elderly

It is a fact of life that as one grows older; one is not physically as strong anymore. The elderly may not be as well synchronized in their movements like before. The risk of slipping or falling is one of the leading reasons that seniors above the age of 65 visit the emergency room. With them living alone, the risk factor can increase. Just a single slip can have terrible consequences, and the faster they can get help, the better.

Medical technology has brought changes to our world and played an important role in improving the health of people by the development of medical devices and equipment. Introducing medical alert devices such as Lifefone to elderly homes enlightens medication. It’s a prefect preventative health care measure for anyone who lives alone, prone to falling, dealing with health issues or emergencies. Also, another purpose is to provide aging people the right of being safe in their own homes, for many more years, instead of nursing homes.

Homes with no medical alert devices have shown elderly with increased struggling and discomfort when home alone. (As it's shown in the figure below) compares two homes of elderlies one without Lifefone device and the other with.

The elderly in the first may acquire injuries that could lead to fatal bleeding, which result in increased death in elderly above the age of 75 because of the difficulty the may face in calling for help while the other one can only push a button. A paramedic can be sent to provide medical assistance and protect your beloved ones. (Stein, 2010)

Lifefone has a positive influence and improvement on medical issues. It provides the elderlies with services to protect them for those times you can’t be there, saves a lot of lives and allows elderlies to live alone safely with no worries.

·        Stein,L. (2010, November 11). Medical Alert Devices to the Rescue. Retrieved July 8, 2018 from https://www.aarp.org

Bridge Action Plan

📍My starting point

Can I consider Azhar AlBekaa as my starting point?
It’s the spot where I graduated and standed for the 1st time in front of students🙈 I’ll never forget that feeling in grade 9 class ! I was asked to explain system of 2 equations 2 unknowns. My happiness was unlimited but my heart was racing 😅 The 1st time is always the hardest, but the unforgettable! How will I begin? How to stand? Where to look? How to deal with students? How to manage my time? I had many questions with no answers... The moment I saluted and started my period, fear started to vanish. I’m more confident, energetic, excited, motivated and glad. Is it because teaching math is my passion or it’s teachers‘ feelings?!Time flew smoothly with a lot of participation, smiles and a comfortable climate for my students and me. I asked for a pic with the sweetest girls to save the moment, but what I didn’t know is that such moments stay with us forever. Our 1st try with its errors & worries is just a reminder of how we were and how we are now. 2020 is a start of an amazing journey that will leave my fingerprint in the world of maths forever. I know it’s a long journey to finally reach huge achievements, inspire generations and make a difference to so many students, but I’ll never give up “I don’t know it all and no one does or ever will but I’m still growing and adding to my knowledge, skills and effectivenesses“

➡️ Toward skillful teacher 💜

Webinar

Building STEAM Confidence and Creativity in Middle School

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

It is important to use bricks or basically any available material as a hands-on activity for the students, it is a way to inspire them and engage them. We need to teach them how to be creative in problem solving, the work world is changing and so are the jobs, and even some of the future jobs still don't exist today, so we need to prepare them for the future. Jobs in the future needs specific skills, emotional intelligence and rapid decision making, that can be required through hands-on activities and playing in class.

It has been noticed that most students are anxious about schools and grades and about trying new things, they are often too afraid to experience new things especially when it's linked to grades or undesirable outcomes, and therefore they seem to grow lacking the confidence to take risks and try out new things. Therefore, teachers must provide students with the opportunity to try without the risk of failure and without it being linked to grades and marks, so that their experience would be enjoyable. 

Greg Kent, the technology coordinator of Kailua elementary school (HI) says that the "fearless vs. reckless" is the essence of learning, which means we do want the students to think of the consequences, but we don't want them to be too afraid to try, and that is the kind of learning that they take with them even after they grow up. The teacher must provide a safe environment and equipment where students can feel that it is harmless to try out a new experience, which will teach them how to solve problems on their own instead of having the teacher solve these problems for them. And so, this kind of hands-on teaching must be purposeful, it is a shift in the mindset where creativity is not just drawing or painting something, it's rather found in everything ; problem solving, communicating, addressing issues..

 The teacher must take into consideration the age and stage of the students when choosing the material and tasks, and then let the hands do the thinking for them because when they work with their hands, they train their thinking better. It is also a way to manage frustration and pressure. These two are considered by students to be very bad, however, hands-on activities like Lego for example could teach them how to better work under pressure and that frustration is what leads them to find new solutions. And therefore when in the future they are faced with a problem with serious outcomes, they'll be able to deal with it better. Working together on these activities will also teach them how to put together other people's ideas along with theirs to come up with a solution. One example of such a game is to give all students equal numbers of Lego bricks, let them sit back to back, and verbally describe to the other what they have built. Or have multiple groups of students challenge each other in who could build the tallest tower, where they learn that if it falls down they've just learned one way that doesn't work, and they are immediately back to work to try a new way instead of giving up. If kids use their hands and not only listen learn and speak but also "do", they would have better connection and better understanding. It is important to understand that kids need time to investigate, they need time to play, and they most likely won't get the right answers from the first time, and there are a lot of ways that kids can be creative. Another example of this method in language and arts is to tell a story and ask the kids to model out (with Lego bricks) a part of the story they've heard. These activities teach them algorithmic thinking and how to come up with new solutions based on the concepts they've taken from the teacher. 

The webinar also talked about a new robotic release by LEGO education called the "spike prime" which is an interactive robot that builds quicker prototype and offers scratch based coding.

Presented by Greg Kent, Technology Coordinator, Kailua Elementary School (HI)
Sponsored by LEGO® Education

Golden Ratio

Math behind beauty

We all have the same basic facial features that make our faces look human. But! We are not equally beautiful. When do you feel someone is beautiful? Being perfect in symmetry? No! Symmetry in the face doesn’t equate to beauty. Perfect symmetry tends to result in a face that appears unnatural, animated or robot like. Faces that are perceived as beautiful are the ones depending on GOLDEN RATIO. What's golden ratio?  It’s the base of life in terms of measurements, as it forms a part of everything that constitutes us and all around us. The Greek letter phi represents the golden ratio. It is an irrational number with a value of:

What has mathematics got to do with beauty? Physical attraction depends on ratio. The mask of the human face is based on the Golden Ratio. The proportions of the length of the nose, the position of the eyes and the length of the chin, all conform to some aspect of the Golden Ratio. 

How to Determine Golden Beauty 

With the math behind it, the symmetry of your face can be measured. The closer this number is to 1.62, the more beautiful it is judged to be subconsciously. The simplest measurement is the length of your face divided by the widest part of your face.

Math isn't for finding x but for finding y!