Volume 10, Number 38

September 19 2005 Vol. 10, No. 38 THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS Math Cats: Hurricane Math and Writing simpsonsmath.com | NetDay: Speak Up Event 2005 MATH CATS: HURRICANE MATH AND WRITING http://www.mathcats.com/hurricane.html Wendy Petti has written on her site: It can be hard to find words to describe the impact of a hurricane like Katrina. Some news reports zero in on one person or family to help us feel the impact on a very personal level. Some news reports turn to numbers to give us a sense of the huge scope of the disaster. Numbers can only give us part of the story. But numbers combined with stories and descriptions can help us begin to grasp the power of a hurricane and what has happened in the path of Hurricane Katrina. We will be sharing good writings about hurricane math here as we receive them. Please join us in researching and writing about the math of a hurricane. Here are possible writing topics: - Hurricane formation and movement - The power of hurricanes - The power of Hurricane Katrina - The scope of Hurricane Katrina - The human toll of Hurricane Katrina - Other effects of Hurricane Katrina - New Orleans ahead of the storm - The actual effect on New Orleans - The response to Hurricane Katrina - The ripple effects of Hurricane Katrina - The personal toll of Hurricane Katrina - Other \|/ FEMA FOR KIDS: HURRICANES http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- SIMPSONSMATH.COM http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/ Dr. Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University, and Dr. Andrew Nestler, Santa Monica College, have developed math activities based on The Simpsons television program. They use them "...in select classes when an episode contains significant mathematical content that we would have covered in the class anyway, or when it serves some other important course goal, such as reducing math anxiety and fostering creative thinking." The site is organized under the following categories: - Mathematics on The Simpsons - Engaging Students with Related Mathematics - Select Media Coverage - Watching Episodes of The Simpsons -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- NETDAY: SPEAK UP EVENT 2005 http://www.netday.org/ Starting September 15, schools and districts can begin registering for NetDay's third annual Speak Up event. Both teachers and students are invited to take the online Speak Up survey to contribute to a national dialogue about technology use and needs and the development of 21st century skills. The online survey will be open October 21 - November 18, 2005. The goal of Speak Up events is both to gather national data and to encourage participants to use their data to inform local decision-making. NetDay grants schools and districts access to their aggregate data through a password-protected website to encourage them to consider stakeholder views on technology and 21st century skills. Past participants have used their data to inform technology decisions and purchases, to learn how to best provide instruction to today's tech-savvy students, to plan for teacher training, and to stimulate discussion about key technology issues in their communities. Speak Up data contributed to the U.S. Department of Education's "National Education Technology Plan" and the "Visions 2020.2 Student Voices" joint report with the U.S. Department of Commerce. See both the plan and the report at http://www.nationaledtechplan.org -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum @ Drexel http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/kb/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/ Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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