Wednesday, April 24, 2013

CTD Parent Seminar April 27, 2013 in Evanston

(now that the workshop has been completed, I've added several links that touch on the kinds of activities we did today)



Geoboard Workshop




Introduction:  Back-to-back activity
  • communicating mathematically
  • listening, following instructions
  • geometric shapes
  • coordinate systems -- locating a point in a  plane using two pieces of information

  
  • fractions
  • areas of irregular shapes
  • line symmetry
  • rotational symmetry
  • congruent regions
  • equal regions
  • vocabulary:  vertical, horizontal, congruent, equal, reflection, rotation, line of symmetry, angle of rotation
  • extensions: halves, eighths

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Math Teaching Professional Development Help

I've just started reading a relatively new (2012) book that looks good. It can be "previewed" online--not just a chapter but 158 pages! Here's the link:

Small Steps, Big Changes

You don't even have to register to read this online.

Worth a look!