Volume 3, Number 29

20 July 1998 Vol. 3, No. 29 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Math Forum Sum98 | ShowMe Project | Scott Kim, Puzzle Master MATH FORUM ADVANCED SUMMER INSTITUTE: SUM98 Developing Internet Mathematics Projects and Resources http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/ From July 6-11, the Math Forum hosted its third Advanced Summer Institute for mathematics educators who are developing high-quality uses of the Internet. We brought together a group of creative, Web-savvy teachers in order to introduce them to each other, to new tools, to interesting mathematics, and to Forum staff from whom they might receive continuing support. Our goal was to enhance projects and resources they were already developing, and to build a community that will help others do the same. To see Web pages created by Sum98 participants, follow the links from our Participant Projects page. For an idea of the organization and flow of the week - from our introductory game, Human Graph Theory, to participant activities and Forum staff presentations on formatting math for the Web, forms, Java GSP, Javascript, dynamic HTML, tools for displaying math on the Web, and building online community - see the Agenda and read our Daily Summaries: - Participant Projects http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/ - List of Participants http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants.html - Sum98 Agenda http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/sum98.agenda.html - Daily Summaries http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/sum98.dailies.html The Forum's workshop pages offer the agendas of previous summer institutes, with links to work done by participants. http://mathforum.org/workshops/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- THE SHOW-ME CENTER http://showmecenter.missouri.edu/ A National Science Foundation project supporting the implementation of standards-based middle grades mathematics curricula. The ShowMe site features: - a searchable calendar of professional development opportunities - the Show-Me Project center and satellites, with related NSF-sponsored implementation and curriculum projects - the Mathematics Curricula Showcase: a tool for comparing five curricula on key features. These projects were funded in 1992 by the NSF to develop comprehensive standards-based curricula: Connected Math Math in Context MathScape MathThematics MMAP - Related literature: selected articles and papers on mathematics curriculum reform. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- SCOTT KIM, PUZZLE MASTER http://www.scottkim.com/ A puzzle and graphic design creator, Scott Kim offers his online puzzles, information about his performing arts activities such as those involving math and dance, and a gallery of inversions or ambigrams, a term coined by cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter for words or names written so they read in more than one way. Some inversions read the same upside down, some flip in a mirror, some read as two different words, some as the same word both ways. (Kim's logo reads the same right side up and upside down.) DESIGNING ONLINE PUZZLE GAMES http://www.scottkim.com/thinkinggames/ This discussion page, hosted by Scott Kim, offers: - a puzzle design discussion board http://wellengaged.com/engaged/timeless.cgi?c=Thinking-Games - "Games for the Rest of Us: Puzzles, Board Games & Game Shows" a talk presented at the 1998 Computer Game Developers Conference http://www.scottkim.com/thinkinggames/cgdc98.html - links to puzzle sites on the Web http://www.scottkim.com/thinkinggames/sites.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/students/ Internet Resources http://mathforum.org/~steve/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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