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Math Forum Special Offer
http://mathforum.org/pd/summer.html
Get a class account to the Problems of the Week for only $25
when you purchase and complete any Summer Online Professional
Development course. That's a 42% savings!
Upcoming courses include
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PoW Class Membership: Resources & Strategies for
Effective Implementation
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Moving Students from Arithmetic to Algebra...one step at
a time
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Learning from Student Work: Make the Most of Your
PoW Membership
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Differentiated Math Instruction: Using Rich Problems to
Reach All Learners
Your PoW class membership will begin when the course starts and
it won't expire until June 30, 2012.
Hurry — this offer ends Monday, August 15th:
http://mathforum.org/renewal.html
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Now taking place: math education conversation of the hour
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"We are moving from a block schedule to an 8 period day
because of the elimination of the January Regents exams. And
this has produced a serious calculator shortage, among other
issues.... Would you take a minute and describe how you
distribute calculators — or do you require students to
purchase their own?"
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- Ann, posted to the secondary (grades 9-12) discussion group
of the Association of Math Teachers of New York State
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http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2283130
Problems of the Week Blog
http://mathforum.org/blogs/pows/
Every week, the Math Forum staff gets together in our
conference room to talk about math. We call these meetings
"Math Mondays" ... even if they don't always occur on a Monday!
During Math Mondays, we vet problems and resources, learn about
new math and problem-solving strategies, look at how students
have solved problems, and think up mathematical questions.
With this latest blog of ours, we invite you to sit in on Math
Mondays — no membership required. Come read and comment on
free problem scenarios "in search of questions," student work
that inspires us, and other interesting mathematics that we
post on the PoW blog.
To see what else the Math Forum is blogging about, visit
http://mathforum.org/blogs/
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Now taking place: math education conversation of the hour
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"Today's birthday: Rensis Likert was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
His PhD in 1932 dealt with the measurement of attitudes, from
which the well-known ordinal scales bearing his name, the
Likert scale(s), come."
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- David, posted to the ap-stat discussion group
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http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2286337
The Science of NFL Football
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/football/index.jsp
Are you ready for some football? The National Football League
(NFL) kicks off Thursday with pre-season action.
Are you ready to teach with football? The 10-part video series
"The Science of NFL Football" explores the science behind the
sport. Running about four to five minutes in length, each
video features a university scientist explaining a selected
scientific principle, while current and former NFL athletes
describe how these principles apply to their positions on
the gridiron.
Mathematical videos cover
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vectors, with quarterback Joey Harrington
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projectile motion and parabolas, with punter Craig Hentrich
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kinematics, with running backs Deuce McAllister, Marshall
Faulk, and Lousaka Polite
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the geometric shapes of spheres, ellipses and prolate
spheroids, with wide receiver Antonio Freeman
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Newton's Second Law of Motion, with kicker Morten Andersen
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torque, with tackle Orlando Pace
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the Pythagorean Theorem, with linebacker Hardy Nickerson
Relevant highlight clips from professional games enliven every
video, along with slow-motion, high-speed camerawork that
allows for frame-by-frame illustration. A lesson from
Lessonopoly accompanies each segment:
http://lessonopoly.org/nfl
The Science of NFL Football is a collaboration between NBC
Learn and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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