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Producing and Delivering Podcasts - It's Not So Complicated |
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| Lane Center 201 |
Bill Quinn and Evan Evans |
| High School/College |
The presenters will summarize and demonstrate the steps used by the
mathematics department at Frederick Community College to create and
deliver podcasts. Several "learning stations" will be available, where
participants can practice the creation of podcasts.
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Konigsberg Bridge Problem |
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| Lane Center 202 |
Stewart Saphier |
| General Interest |
A legend has it that the nobility in Konigsberg, Germany often visited the park to stroll. One of them noticed that whenever he crossed each of the seven bridges once, he always finished at a place that was different from his starting point. So he posed the question: "Is it possible to cross each bridge exactly once and end up where you started?" This problem remained unanswered for many years and was finally solved by Euler. Emphasizing class participation, we will use logic and only elementary mathematics to derive the solution to this problem. In fact, it was solving this problem that led Euler to develop the mathematical field of graph theory. |
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Blueprint for Success: Student Achievement via Data Analysis |
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| Lane Center 140 |
Janis Alexander |
| High School |
Implementation of Malcolm Baldrige process improvement methodologies to promote and ensure student achievement. |
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Roadblocks to Mastery - Reflections on a Sabbatical Year (from University
to Middle Schools)
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| Lane Center 141 |
Gerry Wojnar |
| Grades K-8 |
After spending a year in 24 teachers' 5th - 8th grade classrooms, coupled with observing dysfunctional challenges of general university students, several foundational roadblocks to students' success stand out. Many easy and empowering methods utilized by successful students are unavailable to weaker students who lack basic perspectives which make many shortcut calculations nearly automatic. Issues span: the order of operations convention, multiplication of reciprocals, employing the distributive property as a simplifying shortcut, benchmark facts (many founded in daily experience), hunting for easy subtasks, and a host of examples that might be gathered as various instances of re-grouping, re-representing, and re-arranging. Such methods can empower a broader range of students, boosting their confidence and their attitudes towards mathematics! (As content issues here are first presented in K-5, this session will also be meaningful to K-5 teachers.) |
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Meaningful Math - Find it in the Real World |
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| Library 237 |
Babette Margolies |
| Grades K-8 |
How can instruction bring real world contexts to curriculum driven by tests and accountability? This hands-on workshop will provide activities that lead to student understanding of standards-based concepts, skills, and procedures. Join in the fun as we connect Dirt Cake to fractions, learn a Multiplication Rap, turn the Cha Cha Slide into a Geometry Lesson, and explore a logic puzzle maze that incorporates the story of the minotaur. |
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