Math 5900
Jan 11 - April 28, 2010
W 4:00 - 7:00pm
LCB 121
It is necessary for teachers to establish and understand methods available for engaging students
in mathematics work that encourages the development of concepts, skills, and ability to apply those concepts
in appropriate situations. This course will concentrate on those methods through the discussions of
mathematics topics that teachers find most difficult from the standpoint of engaging the students and students'
performance. This course fulfills the USOE Methods for teaching mathematics requirement. Only teachers currently
employed by Utah's school districts are eligible to enroll in the course.
Office hours will be held by appointment. Please, let us know what time will work for you:
Emina Alibegovic
JWB 312
581-6710
emina@math.utah.edu
Marilyn Keir
JWB 212
581-3865
keir@math.utah.edu
Last day
- Finale! 5/5
- Thanks for being in class!
- Today's notes 4/21
- For next class:
- Solve all problems you received yesterday, write a rubric for 2 of them, and grade the student work according to your rubric
- Be ready to teach (if you haven't given me your lesson plan for feedback, do it soon)
- Today's notes 4/14
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Assessment principle
- Do
- Today's notes 3/31
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Geometry standard
- Solution for rose problem
- Do
- Assignment
- Enjoy your break
- Today's notes 3/24
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Algebra standard
- Marilyn's every number is special 3/24
- Invert and multiply
- Do
- Today's notes 3/17
- Marilyn's quick-draw 3/17
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Number and operations standard
- Do
- Today's calculator steps
- For next class:
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Data Analasys and Probability standard
- Read article
- Do
- Handout Marilyn gave you in class
- Write discover a relationship lesson plan and an item that will tell you whether your students discovered the relationship you intended them to.
- Some examples of discover a relationship lessons:
- Class 7 notes measurement, 2/24
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Technology principle
- Read article
- Do
- Assignment 6
- Trapezoids
- Write a construct a concept lesson plan and an item that will tell you whether your students constructed concept you wanted them to.
- See Solutions to assignment 4 & 5
- Pigpen problem
- Some examples of construct a concept lessons:
- Examples of unit plans
- Area
- Another area
- Derivative
- Slope
- Jigsaw plan . There is also a quest for quadrilaterals jig saw activity on Marilyn's: webpage
- King Henry and the metric system
- Metric questions
- Class 6 notes Learning, 2/17
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Measurement standard for all grades
- Do Assignment 6
- Write a lesson plan which includes effective cooperative learning to create some “product.” In particular, decide how you will assign groups, how you will assign tasks to members of the group, what each member will bring to the lesson, what the “product” will be and how you will assess and use it.
- Books with interesting ideas:
- Discovering Geometry by Michael Sera;
- Patty Paper Geometry by Michael Sera;
- Worksheets Don't grow Dendrites by Marcia L. Tate
- See Solutions to assignment 4 will be available next week
- Read article on cooperative learning in a geometry classroom
- Class 5 notes Curriculum, 2/10
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Learning principle
- Do Assignment 5
- Write a graphic organizer, web diagram, trajectory descriptor, or whatever you call these things for quadratic functions.
- Think about what strategies you can use, and how you can organize your lessons in order to help students achieve various learning level objectives we discussed in class.
- See Solutions to assignment 3
- See article on dividing fractions
- Class 4 notes Teaching, 2/3
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Curriculum principle
- Do Assignment 4
- Write a lesson plan using jigsaw activity
- See Lesson examples for teaching mean
- Class 3 notes Representations, 1/27
- For next class:
- Read from PSSSM: Problem solving and representation standards and Teaching Principle
- Do Assignment 3
- Write a lesson plan for a topic in which you use multiple representations. It should be something other than a system of linear equations.
- See Solutions to assignment 1
- Class 2 notes Equity, 1/20
- For next class:
- Read 20 things I can do
- Do Assignment 2
- Learning styles article
- Think about: what do you want your lesson plan to have and is there a particular topic you find particularly challenging to teach?
- Class 1 notes Problem solving methods, 1/13
- For next class:
- Read Fostering mathematical thinking and problem solving
- Do Assignment 1
- Remember to meet either in a) our regular room at 3:50PM, or b) in Saltair Room in the Union building, on 1/20.
- Read Radical Equations review.