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• Weekly post to Math Tools and presentation of a Math tool to the class.
  1. Become a member of Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/mytools/. Subscribe to as many email lists as you please
  2. Browse the Math Tools site for applets that you like.
  3. At least once each week, post a comment, suggestion, or reply on one of the Math Tools topic areas. I am on all the email lists, so I will have a record of all posts to the site.
  The purpose of this assignment is to provoke discussion and participation in this growing network of developers and users of online mathematics resources.
• Weekly Reading assignments aligned to presentation topics. Each person in the class will be responsible for presenting an overview of the readings for one week and leading the discussion. The person may present additional information on a background topic.

  Readings for each week will be available in the "readings" folder at

  http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/courses/ci336sp04/readings

  Use the username and password that George Reese gave you to access these readings

• 4 annotated bibliographies related to mathematics education and technology. These should be uploaded to the course folder. Your name should be on them and the citation information for the reading should be in APA format. The text file with the document should be named as follows: "yourlastname_authorlastname_bib#"
  For example, the file name for a Word document containing the annotated bibliography of the following reading:

  Brann, E. T. H. (1979). Paradoxes of education in a republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  would be "reese_brann_bib1.doc"
• Present a computer technology to the class.
  • The presentation should take one hour.
  • It should involve an activity that includes some mathematics concepts.
  • Technologies may be (but are not limited to) those on the list.
  • Each presentation should include an assignment for the class to do for the following week. The assignment should take ~half hour.
• Create a five-day, technology-intensive unit that may include a math tool that you create or could make use of a tool that others create.
  • A Math Tool could be a Java program, a Javascript program, a Sketchpad program, or a Flash animation. Any interactive resource that could be submitted to the Math Tools site. The tool should have lesson resources around it. An example is the Buffon Needle: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html.
  • As another suggestion, you can create lessons around the CTE assessments created the Illinois State Board of Education and involving a career and technical education (CTE) field such as construction, machine tool, or medical and career sciences. An example would be Jim Dildine’s Vital Stats Database. http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/tcd/vitals/
• Each lesson should have clearly include instructional technology and the following components:
  • Goals
  • Materials
  • Description of the Lesson
  • Assessments
  • Connections to the State and National Standards and Performance Descriptors
  • Extensions

  General procedure for each day

  • Technology presentation (1 hour)
  • Illustrate a math tool (five minutes per person, total 1 hour)
  • Reading presentation and discussion (45-minutes to an hour)
  • Update on projects

  Grading

  Your grade will be based on the following components

  Classroom participation (attendance, participation in discussions, presentation of math tool, general preparation)	15%
  Reading presentation to the class	20%
  Technology presentation to the class	20%
  Annotated bibliographies	15%
  End of the semester Unit	30%