STCH 250 - Section 2 - Course Webpage - Fall 03

• Week of October 20

Final Project Description





• Week of October 6
HW#5
Due Tuesday October 7
Geometer's Sketchpad Homework



• Week of September 16
HW#4
Due Tuesday September 16 a) Read Case 1, “Lost in Translation” in Merseth’s book (Windows on Teaching Math). We will be having our first case discussion in class on Thursday 9/15.

b) You have each been assigned to a middle school and a high school. In preparation for your first set of observations, you should become familiar with your schools. See the links below to the different school districts as well as to other education related web pages (including the azstarnet one, where you can find information on the AIMS scores for 2003 that were just published on 9/3/03). Your task is to write about half a page on each of your two schools, based on information that you gather from the web pages (or other sources you may have access to). What kind of information? Here are some examples:

- Number of students; Percentage of students on reduced / free lunch (if not available for the school, you may be able to find it for the district); percentage of students who are English learners.

- AIMS scores (that is percentage of students excelling, meeting standards, approaching standards, failing) and other information on students’ performance (e.g. Stanford 9)

- Any other information on the school that seems of interest to you.




Education Links

Amphiteater
Catalina Foothills
Flowing Wells
Marana
Sunnyside
Tanque Verde
TUSD



StarNet Education
No Child Left Behind
National Center for Educational Statistics

• Week of September 9
HW#3
Due Thursday September 11 Read chapter 1 in Secada’s book, “No compromise on equity in mathematics education” by Julian Weissglass. Then, to turn in: a) Write up 2 questions based on the reading and your answer to those 2 questions. b) Write a paragraph (about 10 lines) with your brief reaction to the article.

Bring an extra copy (you can hand write them) of your two questions (not the answers). I will use some of your questions to guide the in-class discussion of the article.

• Portfolio on “Mathematics in the Media”

• Week of September 1st
HW# 2
Due Tuesday September 2

Reading Packet: “Thinking about becoming a mathematics teacher”


Read pages 1 through 6 (up to NCTM section)
Come prepared to discuss the task on rank ordering the problems (pp. 3-4)

To turn in:


Reflective Problem 2 (p. 2)
Exploration #1 (p. 5)


• course description and syllabus


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