I'll be offering a workshop at East Bay Charter Connect's Third Annual Charter School Symposium on Friday, October 11, in Oakland, CA. My theme is "Connecting the Dots (math on the geoboard and dot paper)". This will include selected topics in algebra and geometry: area, distance, the Pythagorean theorem, simplifying radicals, dilation, slope, and more!… Continue reading Upcoming workshop and presentations
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March 19 in Palo Alto
Once again, I will be presenting function diagrams to a math circle for teachers, this time for the American Institute of Mathematics Circle for Teachers. This will happen on March 19, at 340 Portage Ave. Palo Alto, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. There is no charge, and in fact a free dinner is provided. Here… Continue reading March 19 in Palo Alto
e-mail list
You can now get on my e-mail list by going to a new page on my Web site. If you're not yet on my list, get on now!I intend to send out a mailing every six weeks or so, to notify subscribers of my workshops and presentations, and of any new posts here and new… Continue reading e-mail list
CAIS North
The California Association of Independent Schools will be holding its every-other-year Northern California Regional Meeting on March 11 in Oakland. If you work at a member school, I may see you there. Here is what I plan to do that day:Session 1: I will join Laura Hawkins, who succeeded me as math department chair at… Continue reading CAIS North
Summer Workshops for Math Teachers
I will offer four workshops for secondary school teachers this summer:San Francisco (at the Urban School's Center for Innovative Teaching)June 17-19: Visual AlgebraGreater access, greater challenge, and greater variety — by using blocks or tiles, geoboards, function diagrams, and technology.June 20-21: Re-imagining High School MathPedagogy, learning tools, curriculum, assessment, the long period, heterogeneous classes, deceleration,… Continue reading Summer Workshops for Math Teachers
Function Diagram Slides
I posted slides from last Saturday's talk about function diagrams on my Web site. I don't imagine they'll be that useful, unless you want to use them in one of your presentations, but on the same page you can read the article the presentation was largely based on, and find links to many PDFs, animations,… Continue reading Function Diagram Slides
Bay Area Circle for Teachers
I will present an overview of the mathematics and pedagogy of function diagrams at the Winter Workshop of the Bay Area Circle for Teachers, on Saturday, January 26, in Jack London Square in Oakland, CA. Function diagrams are also known as the parallel axes representation, and a computer version is sometimes called "dynagraph". There's a… Continue reading Bay Area Circle for Teachers
Using interactive geometry
This is the final post of my report on the Asilomar conference. (To read the whole set, start here.)I made a cameo appearance in my colleague Scott Nelson's presentation on how using computer software intelligently has made his Analytic Geometry course vastly more accessible. I loved his presentation. (If you teach in a member school… Continue reading Using interactive geometry
The third dimension!
This is another post about sessions I attended last weekend at the Asilomar Northern California CMC conference. (To read the whole set, start here.)Kevin Rees presented two variations on a classic volume optimization problem. In the traditional problem, you start with a square piece of cardboard, cut off congruent squares at the four corners, and… Continue reading The third dimension!
About Student-Created Problems
In my last post, I reported on Avery Pickford's exciting presentation at the Asilomar conference. The idea of student-created problems was thought-provoking — here are some thoughts it provoked.I have no doubt that pursuing student-created problems is worthwhile, but a skeptic may not be convinced by the argument that we should do this because it… Continue reading About Student-Created Problems
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