19 Jan

Pre-test
Introduction
Learning Styles discussion
PROBLEM SCENARIO:
Walk through a postcard

HW: (grant only)
1. TAKS scores for 2009
2. Parking receipts
3. FORMS: memorandum, info, data, consent

Problem solving
PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Latin/Euler squares & article
Dominoes
Polyominoes
Car Talk puzzlers

READ: NCTM Problem Solving and Reasoning & Proof Standards in the course packet (or online)

HW: EMAIL journal

Choose final presentations

Reading discussion
PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Penny Power
Penny pyramid
Penny mat

READ: Annenberg problem solving article in the course packet

HW: EMAIL journal

Reading discussion
PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Toy trains
Calendar problem
Sequence problem
Imaginary powers

HW: EMAIL journal -- focus on rescaling/recontexting the problem scenarios to create a "new" problem based on the same concept (cycle) as these four problems

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Don't fence me in!
Paths and ponds
Frogs & Lily Pads
Two sums

HW: EMAIL journal

Video

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Superfactorials
Differences of powers
Tower of Hanoi
Crossing the river

HW: EMAIL journal

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Fraction sort & worksheet
Old-fashioned town
Crossing the bridge

HW: EMAIL journal

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
6174
Something Nu
Trains on a bridge
Breaking chocolate bars

HW: EMAIL journal

Pi day song

SPRING BREAK

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Geoboard quadrilaterals
Channeled cube
Pythagorean alternate
Football field

HW: EMAIL journal

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
String figures
Trapezoids to triangles
Space station

HW: EMAIL journal

PROBLEM SCENARIOS:
Hugging the equator
Soma cubes
Rolling riches
Mystery data set

HW: EMAIL journal

Final project presentations
Monica Cano
Ghada Salem
Brian Hand

Final project presentations
Amy Puentes
Jeanne Bowen
Steven Mendoza
Quiye Ma