Resources
Textbooks
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Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Author: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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Teaching Secondary and Middle School Mathematics
Author: Brahier
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Mathematics, Pedagogy, and Secondary Teacher Education
Authors: Cooney, Brown, Dossey, Schrage, & Wittman
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One of the following that you determine to be helpful to you:
- Navigating Through Algebra in Grades 6 - 8
- Navigating Through Algebra in Grades 9 – 12
- Navigating Through Geometry in Grades 6 - 8
- Navigating Through Geometry in Grades 9 – 12
- Author: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Other readings will be distributed in class.
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Resources and Technology
- In this course, we will explore mathematics teaching and learning with a variety of hands-on materials and technology resources. Many of the manipulative resources will be provided to you in class and will be available for temporary check-out for your use in course projects and for use in the field.
- This course will be quite technology-intensive. You should be able to complete many projects to include in your technology portfolio component of the professional teaching standards.
- If you have a Meredith laptop through the Laptop Initiative, then you need to see Tech Services to have the following software packages installed on your computers: Geometer’s Sketchpad, Fathom, Logger Pro 2.1, TI-Interactive, and Excel. Please make sure that you have a Java-enabled Browser available on your laptop computer or home computer as well (Usually this implies Internet Explorer 5.x or greater or Netscape Communicator/Navigator 6.x or greater.).
- If you have your own personal computer (desk or laptop), I encourage you to explore the use of the software listed above. Explore the following website, http://www.keypress.com, to find information about Geometer’s Sketchpad and Fathom software packages. While the demo versions are free, one is not able to save files with the demo. Student versions are rather inexpensive relative to other software packages. Likewise, explore http://www.vernier.com for Logger Pro 2.1 information. One copy of the software entitles you to a site license for school use, so several of you could go in together to purchase a copy.
- In this methods course, you will submit a great deal of your assignments via the web in HTML format. To this end, you need to have access to HTML editing software, such as Netscape Communicator (Composer), Microsoft Front Page, Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is my understanding that most of these software packages are in the computer labs.
- Course Website: The course website is located at the following URL: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/courses/mat764fa02/. We will use this website as a means of submitting assignments and as a point of exploration of web resources and curriculum publishing
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Educational Resources
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Resources and quotes
- Educating Americans for the 21st Century: http://www.nas.edu/nrc/
(National Science Board, 1983)
(This is...) A Plan of action for improving mathematics, science and technology education for all American elementary and secondary students so that their achievement is the best in the world by 1995
- Goals 2000: http://www.negp.gov/page3-7.htm
- Everybody Counts: http://www.napanet.net/~jlege/allcount.htm
A report to the nation on the future of mathematics education
(Washington, DC: National Research Council/Mathematical Sciences Education Board, 1989)
(from Summary)
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As technology has 'mathematicized' the workplace and as mathematics has permeated society, a complacent America has tolerated underachievement as the norm for mathematics education. We have inherited a mathematics curriculum, conforming to the past, blind to the future, and bound by a tradition of minimum expectations (page 5)
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Everyone depends on the success of mathematics education; everyone is hurt when it fails. Mathematics must become a pump rather than a filter in the pipeline of American education (page 11)
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Technical Resources
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