Volume 10, Number 9

28 February 2005 Vol. 10, No. 9 THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS Facster | for the learning of mathematics Math Dance with Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern FACSTER http://www.facster.com The Obelisk Applications Corporation describes their Facster site as "the facts at your fingertips." Search and browse tables of data from: - The Statistical Abstract of The United States - state statistical abstracts - foreign statistical abstracts - government agency, NGO, and corporate abstracts - other factual sources The home page updates every day to show facts based on current events ranging from holidays to sports contests to birthdays of famous people. Also, get random facts, and discuss Facster news and information in an online forum. The popular "Historical Series" includes tables of historical figures on topics such as: - Births to Teenagers and to Unmarried Women - High School Graduates, and College Enrollment and Degrees - Gross Domestic Product in Current and Real Dollars - National Air Pollutant Emissions - Personal Consumption Expenditures in Current and Real Dollars by Type - Specified Reportable Disease Cases - Vote Cast for President, by Major Political Party -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- FOR THE LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS http://flm.educ.ualberta.ca/ "for the learning of mathematics" is a journal that aims to stimulate reflection on mathematics education at all levels, and promote study of its practices and its theories: to generate productive discussion; to encourage enquiry and research; to promote criticism and evaluation of ideas and procedures current in the field. This international journal of mathematics education is published three times a year, in March, July, and November. Download "loved articles" such as: - The role of contexts in the mathematics classroom: Do they make mathematics more 'real'? by Jo Boaler - Norman by Jennifer Macpherson - Difference, cognition, and mathematics education by Valerie Walkerdine - An experience with some able women who avoid mathematics by Dorothy Buer - Ethnomathematics: a dialogue by Marcia Ascher and Ubiratan D'Ambrosio The journal is published under the auspices of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group/Groupe Canadien d'Etude en Didactique des Mathematiques (CMESG/GCEDM). -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- MATH DANCE WITH DR. SCHAFFER AND MR. STERN http://www.mathdance.org In hundreds of schools and conferences since 1987, The Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble has performed and conducted workshops on math dance. From that work, Co-Artistic Directors Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern wrote MathDance, a 132-page book with fellow artist Scott Kim. Their site presents some of their favorite math dance activities to use in classrooms, including: - Clap Your Name - Counting Handshakes - Rotational Symmetry - The Four Basic Symmetries - String Polyhedra -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- 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/discussions/ 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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