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WebLinks University; link to fractal and chaos applets; fractals Dimensions of fractal geometery; Sierpinski Triangle; extend the USDA; Grades K2 Prob/Stat activities; K-12 http://www.css.edu/users/aguckin/WebLinks.htm
Extractions: Mathematics Web Sites The following links to web sites are provided to help you get started locating sites that will be helpful to you. The mathematics categories are similar to strands of the Minnesota K-12 Mathematics Frameworks. However, many of the sites are not restricted to one of these strands. It is difficult to keep any such lists current and accurate. Sometimes sites are inaccessible because they are busy, their location has changed or they have been eliminated. Start your own list of useful bookmarks and use names for your bookmarks that will be meaningful to you. Select a category: Discrete Mathematics Geometry Data Investigation Number Sense; Number Theory ... Technology Using Web sites carefully Just as everything we read in the newspaper is not necessarily accurate, everything we read on the Internet is not necessarily accurate. The following is an example of what can happen: Under the headline, "Whales in the Minnesota River? Only on the Web, Where Skepticism Is a Required Navigational Aid," the March 4 edition of the NewYork Times ran an interesting piece about how, on the Web, the "straight facts can be hard to find." Used as an example was a spoof site posted through Mankato State that highlighted Mankato as home to sunny beaches, an underwater city and whale watching as well as neighborhoods in which "the winter temperature has never dropped below a balmy 70 degrees." The following sites help with criteria for evaluating Web sites.
Extractions: Books Calculus, Concepts and Calculators The book should be a boon to teachers seeking a calculus text that supports the new AP course description. It emphasizes the concepts of calculus; however, unlike other reform texts, the exercise sections have a nice balance of routine and challenging problems. Click here for additional Videos Learning about the TI-89 Additional videos now available.
Math 8 - Frisbie Middle School is using the Glencoe instructional materials to teach mathematics Graphing and Functions, Linear and Exponential Functions, fractals and chaos Theory, Applied http://www.rialto.k12.ca.us/frisbie/math8.html
Extractions: Math 8 As part of the Rialto Unified School District, Frisbie Middle School is using the Glencoe instructional materials to teach mathematics. Math 8 is a general mathematics course for eighth grade students not enrolled in Algebra I. Under the Curriculum Links the alignment of the course can be checked against the RUSD Math Matrix, California Framework Standards, and the NCTM Standards. Links are provided to support the Math 8 curriculum for students, teachers and parents. Some of the links are to Internet sites with information, others link to sites with interactive lessons which could be used at home as a supplement or during class and still others could be used as enrichment for students willing to work before or after school. A similar Math 7 page is available for the general mathematics course for all seventh grade students. As you use these pages, comments and/or suggestions would be appreciated. Please send them to Suzanne Alejandre Math Matrix - RUSD RUSD Course of Study CA Academic Standards Commission California Mathematics Framework
AMATYC Phoenix - Workshops as well as introduce the phenomenon of chaos and fractals into calculus Participants in this workshop will discover contextual activities, created for an http://www.amatyc.org/Phoenix/Workshops.html
Extractions: Instructions on How to Do an Internet Presentation Without an Internet Connection A workshop includes active attendee participation, an in-depth treatment of a skill, and significant handouts. Assignments are made on a space available basis, as conference payments are received. Attendees may register for two workshops. The workshops listed as Off-site will be held in a computer lab at City Colleges Center Campus of Phoenix College. All participants should schedule at least 30 minutes each way for travel. The conference program will have a more detailed bus schedule. AMATYC is not responsible for the transportation of anyone who misses the bus. W1 Awesome Activities for Future Teachers
Points And Angles will be used to illustrate the interplay between fractals and chaos, and their Extracurricular activities. http://www.mmcchicago.org/dinners00-01/P&AMar01.htm
Extractions: Mathematics Consulting Services Rare is the student who is not fascinated by the beauty of fractals, or the teacher who is not captivated by the surprises of chaos. Multiple media will be used to illustrate the interplay between fractals and chaos, and their connection with mathematics and our world. Monica Neagoy was educated in France, Asia and the U.S. with her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Maryland. Her exposure to many cultures, her mastery of several languages, and her professional involvement in both the arts and sciences give her a unique perspective on the learning and teaching of mathematics. She is a national mathematics consultant (ie., The Annenburg/CPB Channel, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, PBS) and the head judge for MATHCOUNTS organization. Since 1985, she has worked with in-service teachers independently and through Georgetown University. She is also a professional actor and is the artistic co-director of the professional LE NEON Theater in Washington, D.C. This will be an exciting evening with Monica Neagoy on March 9, 2001.
Points And Angles classroom allows teachers to bring topics, such as chaos and fractals, that generate images Bob has found that chaos club activities allow students http://www.mmcchicago.org/dinners01-02/P&ASep01.html
Extractions: Robert L. Devaney Although we all know that the Como Inn has made many changes over the past 20 years, nothing could have a much greater impact on MMC than their announcement that they were closing for remodeling. For MMC, it causes a moment of chaos! So, as we embark upon the 2001-2002 year, MMC is going to experience Adventures in Chaos at the famous Berghoff Restaurant, which is located in the heart of the Chicago Loop. Robert L. Devaney of Boston University will deliver a talk entitled The Adventures in the Chaos Club: Online Activities Involving Chaos and Fractals. Bobs talk will take us on a journey that will demonstrate a number of different internet-based tools that can be used to introduce topics from contemporary mathematics in both the middle school and high school curricula. All who have heard Robert Devaney speak can tell you how dynamic he is. Bob has given over 1,000 invited lectures in 49 of the 50 United States. He has also lectured on 6 continents worldwide. Robert Devaney has taught mathematics at several universities and he has held the position of chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Boston University. Dr. Devaney has also authored or edited numerous research papers and books, and he has developed software packages designed to teach students at all educational levels about the mathematics underlying captivating images. In addition to all of these individual accolades, he is also the director of the National Science Foundation Institutes and Projects.
Jurassic Park with dinocurosity, here are some activities that will not only pique students Ask the students if they are familiar with fractals and the chaos Theory. http://www.challenge.state.la.us/k12act/data/jurassic_park.html
Extractions: Time Required: 2 - 3 class periods Introduction: What do Blockbuster movies, best selling novels, and a top-rated television series have in common? Intriguing plots, celebrities, and DINOSAURS! From a scientific perspective, the resurgence of interest in prehistoric creatures is both positive and negative. On one hand, children are eager to learn about dinosaurs; on the other hand, much of what they learn is inaccurate. Now that your students are abuzz with dino-curosity, here are some activities that will not only pique students' curiosity, but will also teach them scientifically accurate information about prehistoric life on earth. We would like to acknowledge Charlene M. Czernaik for giving us some thoughts and direction on this lesson through her article "The Jurassic Spark", found in the October (1993) issue of
SLU 2000 Inquiry Seminar class you will participate in group activities, class discussions, computer activities, and will chaos What is a fractal? How can you create fractal images? http://sylow.slu.edu/teach/125Brochure.html
Extractions: SLU 2000 Inquiry Seminar Infinity, the Fourth Dimension, Chaos and Prime Numbers Fall 2003 MWF 9-9:50 Instructor: Dr. Darrin Speegle Fall 2003 MWF 12-12:50 Instructor: Dr. Steven Harris Spring 2004 MWF 1:10-2 Instructor: Dr. Russell Blyth Who should take this course? Mathematical Thinking in the Real World is for students in the humanities and other disciplines that require one math course at or above a set level (usually College Algebra) to satisfy a core requirement. It is designed for students who already know the material of College Algebra and who are looking for a new and definitely more interesting way to satisfy the math requirement. What do you learn in this course? We study some of the great ideas of mathematics: infinity, the fourth dimension, prime numbers and chaos. We explore these topics in a variety of ways, sometimes using puzzles to motivate us, and sometimes solving puzzles using the mathematics we study. A variety of often surprising applications arise along the way. The course will develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and let you see some fun mathematics that is usually hidden from view in lower division courses.
Resources - Teacher org.uk/issue11/features/physics_world/index.html Information on fractals and chaos ..lots of school lessons designed to extend handson activities and to http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/resources/teacher.htm
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Nixon Library I 514 PEI fractals for the classroom strategic activities vol. II. 3rd ed. Thompson, Silvanus P. 519.2 RUE Chance and chaos. Ruelle, David. http://www.butlercc.edu/nixon_library/parts/special_collections/math_sci_tech.cf
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Additional Resources Both of these sites relate to the activities of the Number Sense Research Group at the to resources from the history of mathematics to fractals and chaos. http://www.mpt.org/learningworks/teachers/numbers_alive/resources.html
Extractions: There are an incredible wealth of web sites related to mathematics on all levels. Here are some to get you started. For the most recent data, use your favorite search engine and enter terms like "mathematics education," "numbers sense," "kid's math," etc. to find the most recent entries. http://www.pbs.org/mathline This is the site of PBS's innovative professional development site for mathematics teachers in elementary and middle grades, with an abundance of classroom resources and feedback from other teachers throughout the country. http://enc.org This is the homepage for the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, a wealth of mathematics and science information, with extensive links to other Internet resources. Each month, 13 outstanding math and science sites are singled out for the spotlight in "The Digital Dozen." http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/archive/math96/Mathnumsense.html A great nugget of individualized information from teachers using exemplary practices to teach number sense. Although all related to Massachusetts math curricula, the ideas and activities can probably spark some ideas that relate to your work. http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~barb/number.html
Math Simulations The sound of chaos (512) This site, part with its interactive introduction to two fractals, the Mandelbrot 8-12) This site contains activities for = students http://www.techtrekers.com/sim.htm
Extractions: This World Wide Web (WWW) site, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative, helps students in grades 1 to 12 to create, locate, and communicate information through active learning, guided discovery, mentoring, competitions. Math Simulations The Stock Market Game SMG2000, the stock market game (4-12) This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed to help students in grades 4 to 12 understand the stock market, the costs and benefits involved in decision making, and the sources and uses of capital and other related economic concepts Online Stock Market Trading Simulation The Investment Stock Game Invest smart This site contains an interactive stock market simulation in which high school classes can use a $100,000 fantasy money account to invest in the stock market or mutual funds. This market simulation is a hands-on tool. A Web-based Interactive Stock Market Learning Project for K-12 www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/gnb.html
Calculator Workbooks - TI-83 theorem of algebra, complex numbers, fractals and mathematics of chaos, combinatorics, probability and others are new activities made possible by http://www.eaiusa.com/mo__calculator__workbooks__ti83.htm
Extractions: and Lessons General Graphing Calculators ... A-Z List Calculator Workbooks - TI- 83 New! Graphing Calculator Activities for Enriching Middle School Mathematics by Christine Browning and Dwayne Channell This workbook provides teachers with useful integrated math and science activities to use the TI-80/82/83 graphing calculators. The activities cover topics in number sense probability and statistics, measurement, and algebraic thinking. Teacher Notes including useful activity hints and problems solutions, are also provided. (Paperbound, 142 pages). W-7720-TI New! Graphing Calculator Activities by Charles Lund and Edwin Anderson This collection of 50 activities guides students to generate graphs quickly, as they study the functions encountered in Algebra I and II. For use with any graphing calculator, Graphing Calculator Activities offers explorations in graphing lines, inequalities, simultaneous equations, special functions, parabolas, circles, hyperbolas, matrices, and the exponential, logarithmic, and sine functions. Worksheets guide students through experiences by offering suggestions and asking questions. Also contains quick reference tips for the popular Texas Instruments TI-82 and TI-83, the Casio CFX-9850G, and the Sharp EL-9300 graphing calculator. (Paperbound, 240 pages).
Mathematics Web Sites University; link to fractal and chaos applets; fractals Dimensions of fractal geometry; Sierpinski Triangle; extend the USDA; Grades K2 Prob/Stat activities; K-12 http://frontpage.uwsuper.edu/aguckin/mathsites.htm
Extractions: Mathematics Web Sites The following links to web sites are provided to help you get started locating sites that will be helpful to you. It is difficult to keep any such lists current and accurate. Sometimes sites are inaccessible because they are busy, their location has changed or they have been eliminated. Start your own list of useful bookmarks and use names for your bookmarks that will be meaningful to you. Select a category: Discrete Mathematics Geometry Data Investigation Number, Number Sense and Elementary Number Theory ... Parents More Teaching Resources and Policy Reports Using Web sites carefully Just as everything we read in the newspaper is not necessarily accurate, everything we read on the Internet is not necessarily accurate. The following is an example of what can happen: Under the headline, "Whales in the Minnesota River? Only on the Web, Where Skepticism Is a Required Navigational Aid," the March 4 edition of the New York Times ran an interesting piece about how, on the Web, the "straight facts can be hard to find." Used as an example was a spoof site posted through Mankato State that highlighted Mankato as home to sunny beaches, an underwater city and whale watching as well as neighborhoods in which "the winter temperature has never dropped below a balmy 70 degrees." Evaluating Web sites Referencing Web sites
Mathematics Links On The Web of algebra and geometry to new innovations in chaos theory and fractals. pguide/pguide.html An electronic booklet that includes activities for parents http://www.msu.edu/course/cep/816/wallacespring02/math.htm
Extractions: Course Schedule Java Applets for Math tools . Cuisenaire Rods, Fraction Blocks, Pattern Blocks, INteger Bars NCTM E-Standards Home Page This is a link from the NCTM homepage taking you directly to the new national standards. This is a full-text, electronic copy. You can also order the book from this Web site.
NECC '98 Paper ComputationallyRich activities for the Construction of and parallelism of MicroWorlds brings chaos theory within fractals are self-similar shapes with finite http://www.stager.org/articles/NECCmath98.html
Extractions: The NCTM Standards state that fifty percent of all mathematics has been invented since World War II . (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989) Few if any of these branches of mathematical inquiry have found their way into the K-12 curriculum. This is most unfortunate since topics such as number theory, chaos, topology, cellular automata and fractal geometry may appeal to students unsuccessful in traditional math classes. These new mathematical topics tend to be more contextual, visual, playful and fascinating than adding columns of numbers or factoring quadratic equations. Logo provides a powerful medium for rich mathematical explorations and problem solving while providing a context in which students may fall in love with the beauty of mathematics. The examples in this paper are intended to spark the imaginations of teachers and explore several mathematical areas ripe for Logo-based investigations. Many educators equate Logo with old-fashioned turtle graphics or suggest that Logo is for the youngest of children. Neither of these beliefs is true. Although traditional turtle graphics continues to be a rich laboratory in which students construct geometric knowledge, Logo is flexible enough to explore the entire mathematical spectrum. Logo continues to satisfy the claim that it has no threshold and no ceiling. (Harvey, 1982) Best of all, Logo provides a context in which children are motivated to solve problems and express themselves.
Geology Books + Earth Science Books : Current Bestsellers List fractals and chaos in Geology and Soil Science Simplified; A Field Manual for the Amateur Geologist Tools and activities for Exploring Our Planet; http://www.crimsonbird.com/science/geologybooks.htm
On Growth And Form Handson activities encourage students to predict the outcome In the chaos Game, students begin by placing Back to fractals in Science Simulations Back to CPS http://polymer.bu.edu/ogaf.html
Extractions: As part of the National Science Foundation Applications of Advanced Technologies funded project On Growth and Form: Learning Concepts of Probability and Fractals by ``Doing Science'' , a number of hands-on activities, laboratory experiments, and interactive visualization programs for the Macintosh platform have been developed to demonstrate how fundamentally random microscopic events can give rise to fractal macroscopic patterns. Click to download Macintosh and Windows software to your host computer. For further information on the following simulations, please contact us. Feedback would be most appreciated. Jump to: Random Walks Anthill Deer Many Walkers ... DNA Walk , or Chill Out Hands-on activities encourage students to predict the outcome of flipping a set of ten coins 1000 times. How many times would all ten coins come up heads? How many times would nine coins come up heads? etc. Then students flip coins for themselves and average results over the entire class. Students then are given a number line and a walker. Students place the walker in the center of the number line and move it left or right depending on the outcome of a coin flip. The Random Walk program allows allows the student to flip a set of ten coins a large number of times quickly and summarizes in the form of a histogram the number of heads resulting from each trial. Another part of the program models the direction of a one dimensional random walker by the flip of a coin. Where the walker lands at the end of ten steps is compiled in a histogram at the bottom of the screen.
TRENTON STATE COLLEGE fractals for the Classroom, Part One Introduction to fractals and chaos, NCTM, 1992 Peitgen, et.al, fractals for the Classroom Strategic activities, Vol.1 http://www.tcnj.edu/~mathstat/outlines/300Syllabi/390Syllabi.htm
Extractions: THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT Professionalized subject matter. Teaching techniques and lesson planning including a variety of classroom formats. Cooperative group work, writing in the mathematics classroom, technology and manipulatives. Curriculum trends, professional obligations and responsibilities, student assessment. Content will include discrete mathematics, problem solving concept of proof, and mathematical modeling. Be able to present the mathematics of the secondary school with emphasis on reasoning as well as techniques of operation. Be able to use instructional strategies based on current research as well as national, state and local standards relating to mathematics instruction. Be adept in using manipulatives for meaningful student learning. Student reactions and evaluations. Revised 2/9/01 bc
