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Table of Contents:

Featured Awards ................................................... 5

Note from the Editor.............................................. 6

Message from the President .................................. 7

Note from the VDOE ............................................. 8

Ideas for the K-6 Classroom ................................. 9

An Example of Nature’s Mathematics: The

Rainbow............................................................... 12

Opportunities for K-12 Teachers ........................ 20 Math Girls ............................................................... 21

Math Jokes........................................................... 27

Grant Opportunities ............................................ 28

Busting Blockbusters ........................................... 28

NCTM Annual Conference .................................. 29

HEXA Challenge Fall 2017................................. 30

Teaching Dilemmas ............................................. 32

Solutions to Spring HEXA Challenge.................. 36

Upcoming Math Competitions............................. 40

Technology Review.............................................. 41

Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries ...................... 43

The Shape of Ordered Pairs ................................ 44

Call for Manuscripts ........................................... 51

Good Reads ......................................................... 52

Key to the Spring 2017 Puzzlemaker................... 53

VCTM Annual Conference .................................. 54

Puzzlemaker......................................................... 57

Conferences of Interest........................................ 58

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