Time and place: MTWTh, 8:00-10:00 AM & Selected afternoons, Room 205 Prescott Hall
Staff
| mm/dd | Day | Topic | Lecture Notes | Supplements | Notes | Resources | Teacher Writing |
| 05/30 | W | Writing about ratios, expressions and linear functions | -- |
Plato's Trail Mix | |
1:00PM-1:30: Discussion of course philosophy (based on Schoenfeld) | Illustrative Math Project Site | Plato's Trail Mix (15 min., morning) |
| 05/31 | Th | Introduction to Measurement | Notes 1 | Work on the problems in the notes, especially 1 and 5. Discuss in small groups. | Hölder in Wikipedia |
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| 06/04 | M | Measurement II | Notes 2 | Inches and Centimeters | We worked on the Inches and Centimeters problem at the beginning of the afternoon, as usual, starting with 15 min of individual work. After about 2 hours of joint work and whole-class discussion, teachers were asked to write an update of their thinking. | The Inches and Centimeters task is really asking you to think about other people's thinking. Rebecca Saxe's lab at MIT does research about humans' ability to reason about other humans' thoughts. | Inches and Centimetrs (15 min.) |
| 06/05 | T | Coordinates on the line | Notes 3 | Celsius & Fahrenheit | Celsius & Fahrenheit (15 min.) | ||
| 06/06 | W | Conversion Factors | Notes 4 | Penny Problem | In the afternoon, we worked on the Penny Problem and on the 3-, 4- and 5-numbers games. | Penny Problem: |
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| 06/07 | Th | Distributive Law | Notes 5 | Class worked problems in Notes 5 in morning. | Comments on quiz work. | Quiz | |
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| 06/11 | M | Order of Operations | Notes 6 | In the morning, I talked (too long) about exposition. Students were asked to read Wu's article. | H-H Wu, "Order of Operations"... | Cadillac and Toyota (again) | |
| 06/12 | T | Numerical Expressions versus Algebraic Expressions | Notes 7 | Trina's Triangles | Group 1| 1 note | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 |
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| 06/13 | W | Logic I | Notes 8 | Constant-, variable- and function-symbols; expressions defined | |||
| 06/14 | Th | Logic II | Notes 9 | Sentences and sentential functions | |||
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| 06/18 | M | Logic III | Notes 10 | Cadillac and Toyota: 1.4 | 2.1 | Solving equations. Compound sentential functions (AND, OR, NOT) and their uses; Solving inequalities. | Excerpts from a curriculum: 5. inequalities (AND/OR) 6. inequalities (abs. val.) |
Cadillac and Toyota 1.4 (15 min.) |
| 06/19 | T | Coordinates on the line | Notes 11 | Using different coordinate systems; applications to quadratics. | |||
| 06/20 | W | Coordinates in the plane | Notes 12 | More on lines. | Distance, circles, lines. | ||
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