Textbook assessment powerpoint

Here is the powerpoint that will be discussed in class on Monday Nov. 2.

- Susan

textbook assessment powerpoint

A list of blog items to date

While you are on practicum, I will be marking your blog assignments to date. I'll check your blog for completeness (see list below) and send each of you and email with detailed comments on some of the entries you have written, along with a mark for Assignments 1 and 2.

Here is the list of entries to date. If any are missing at this point, you still have time to catch them up, but all of these must be complete by November 16 at the absolute latest.

October 19 /09

MAED314A blog items to date:

1)   1) Skemp article response

2)   2) Individual microteaching BOOPPPS lesson plan

3)   3) Individual microteaching reflection

4)  4)  Most memorable math teachers

5)  5)  Robinson article response

6)   6)  Assignment 1 summary and response: Conversations with math teachers and students

7)  7)  Battleground Schools article response

8)   8)  Dave Hewitt video response

9)   9) Letters from future students, with your brief reflection

1010) 10 comments/questions in response to pp 1 – 32,  Art of Problem Posing

1111)  Reflection on pp. 32 – 65, Art of Problem Posing: “What-if-not” approach

1212)  Simmt article reflection

1  13) Group math microteaching lesson plan

1414)  Group microteaching reflection

1515) Division by Zero poem: timed writing, poem and reflections on this as a pedagogic exercise. (This last item is due Nov. 2)

Two inspirational powerpoints on the eve of your first practicum

These were presented in class today -- Oct. 16 /09

New teacher survival tips

Inspirational survival tips

Have an excellent practicum, everybody! Feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.

That great "New Math" book Sam brought in!

Here's a look at the cover and a couple of pages from the New Math for Parents book (1964) that Sam lent me: New Math guide from 1964

NCTM Standards executive summary

The NCTM website is at www.nctm.org

NCTM Standards summary  Principles and standards for math teaching K-12
NEW NCTM Focus in high school mathematics executive summary This just came out -- a focus document aimed at high school math teaching.

Article on Mathematics Education and Democracy by Elaine Simmt

Citizen education in the context of school mathematics

I will be interested to hear what your thoughts are on this!

The Art of Problem Solving website

Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Stan for the link to this interesting website:
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

It includes some very interesting-looking books aimed at enriching the Grade 6 -12 math, as well as math forums, courses and games. The site is focused on problem solving, particularly in relation to the Math Counts and AMC math contests. Enjoy!

Favourite books about math, for your classroom library: Part 1

Here is the first installment of a list of great books about mathematics that you might want to collect for your classroom. These will help you get ideas for lessons and projects and will offer lots of possibilities for cross-curricular connections for your students.

There are SO many excellent books available that even for a very partial list, I'll have to post it in several installments, so more to come.

Certain very prolific authors are producing whole shelves of excellent books about mathematics for a general audience. Almost any book by the following authors is bound to be interesting and well-written:

Martin Gardner
Ian Stewart
Keith Devlin
John Barrow
Eli Maor
David Berlinski
Clifford Pickover

(and there are others...)

The first title on this list is from Nathan -- thanks Nathan!

Nahin, Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
Nahin, An Imaginary Tale: The Story of "i"
Gardner, Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes and the Tower of Hanoi...
Gardner, The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
Barrow, Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking and Being
Lakoff & Núñez, Where Mathematics Comes From
Fadiman, The Mathematical Magpie
Fadiman, Fantasia Mathematica
Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry
Pickover, Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind and Meaning
Pickover, The Mobius Strip: Dr.August Mobius' Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art,...
Devlin, The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
Devlin, The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat...
Devlin, Mathematics: The New Golden Age
Stewart, Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiousities
Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos
Stewart, Letters to a Young Mathematician
Stewart, Taming the Infinite:The Story of Mathematics
Derbyshire, Prime Obsession
Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Livio, The Golden Ratio
Maor, "e": The Story of a Number
Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus

Smart Board notes from Oct. 5 class: BC Math Curriculum overview part 1

Smart Board notes: Curriculum overview part 1

Problem Posing first reading

Here is the link to the first reading from our textbook, The Art of Problem Posing:
Problem Posing pp. 1-32



I've posted this because some people would be unable to get their copy of the textbook in time to do this reading over the weekend. However, you will need to get your own copy of the book for upcoming readings!