Friday, January 26, 2007

Math and Music/Motion

This is a great place to ask questions of your group members about identifying EALR's and Standards, sharing sources for materials.

Math and Art

This is a great place to ask questions of your group members about identifying EALR's and Standards, sharing sources for materials.

Mathematizing Literature/Math & Culture

This is a great place to ask questions of your group members about identifying EALR's and Standards, sharing sources for materials.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Service Opportunitites

Please check out the webpage http://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/alevy/service.htm to find Schools and After-School Programs. New on the list, and for whom the contact persons are students in the Math for Teachers courses this quarter: Meany Middle School and Bailey Gatzert Elementary.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Dozenal Counting

This webpage was recommended by Sidney Deering. http://www.polar.sunynassau.edu/~dozenal/intro.pdf
Check it out as they use symbols to represent the digits ten and eleven.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Base 16

This fellow devised a very creative numeral system for base 16. http://www.artima.com/artimaicon.html

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Mathematician as Elementary School Teacher

In an interesting article by a mathematician (Ron Ahroni), who took time off to teach in an elementary school, he tells about what he learned from this experience.
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/fall2005/aharoni.htm

Why we teach for conceptual understanding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_z1M2yrLg