Mathematics Education and Cultural Connections Presentation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-VgrdpDAFIjNXRJRUZHYkV6R2M/view?usp=sharing

malihe

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AuGFqilq28KqD-f8CtwjcB0fxvc0Pxs-2Lrgigb5eVs/edit?usp=sharing Malihe

Problem Posing Presentation

Problem Posing Presentation by Sharon Nijjar

Details about your 20-minute presentation this Thursday April 13

Hi everyone. It's our last class for this course, and we will run it as an in-class conference, with each student presenting their long paper and an interactive activity in 20 minutes.

Some requirements:

• Base your presentation on your long paper
• Please include 10-12 slides (which might contain text -- at least 18- 20 point font--and/or pictures, videos, etc. Please post your slides on your blog by Thursday.
• Include a 5-10 minute brief interactive activity for the rest of the class to try, to help everyone understand your topic and research.
• Don't read your slides or text-- but talk to the group directly!

Looking forward to a very interesting session.

We will also need to have some snack (who's bringing food this week, or will it be a potluck?)

It's also important that everyone fill in your course evaluations on line. These provide valuable feedback for me to help me improve the course from year to year. If you can, please fill out the course evaluation before class...or we can leave time to do them at the end of class.

Looking forward to seeing you and having a great culminating class for our course this Thursday!

Some interesting visual & historical approaches to algebraic problem solving

From Sawyers' Vision in Elementary Mathematics (on even and odd numbers and visual algebra)

From Joseph's Crest of the Peacock (on Ancient Egyptian fractions)

From Olivastro's Ancient Puzzles (on Ancient Egyptian division of loaves of bread)