6 December 1999 Vol. 4, No. 9
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Suzanne's Interactive Lessons | John & Betty's Journey - Bower |
Powers of Ten
SUZANNE'S INTERACTIVE LESSONS - Suzanne Alejandre
"Middle School Mathematics Curriculum," a position paper
written for the 1998 NCTM Standards 2000 and Technology
Conference, outlines an approach to teaching mathematics
that integrates activities, exercises, manipulatives, and
technology:
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/nctm/position.html
Lessons showing the way Suzanne uses this approach in
the classroom open with Student Pages; a link at the top
of each page leads to a Teacher Lesson Plan.
- Traffic Jam (Hop, Skip, Jump)
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/student.jam.html
- Locker Problem (a thousand lockers)
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/student.locker.html
- Bricks (build a wall without fault lines)
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/student.brick.html
- Dominoes (polyominoes)
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/student.poly.html
For a table of contents of SUZANNE'S MATH LESSONS, see:
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/
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JOHN AND BETTY'S JOURNEY INTO COMPLEX NUMBERS - Matt Bower
http://mathforum.org/johnandbetty/
Now hosted by the Math Forum, this children's book-on-the-Web
from Australia is designed to introduce complex numbers in
story form in a way that is intuitive and enjoyable for
students.
John, Betty, and their dog Trevor solve a series of problems
designed to introduce topics such as:
- integers
- fractions
- surds
- imaginary numbers
- complex numbers
- Argand diagram
- vectors
- multiplication in polar form
- relating polar and Cartesian form
- De Moivre's theorem
- Mandelbrot set
To order the book in hard copy, you may use the form provided
on the Web.
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POWERS OF TEN - Bruce Bryson
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
A visual journey from quarks to quasars: images based on the
book _Powers of Ten_, by Philip and Phyllis Morrison and
the Office of Charles and Ray Eames.
Each picture's subject is ten times wider or narrower than
the next. Images range from quarks at 10^-16 meters to groups
of galaxies at 10^25 meters, with related information about
objects of each size and Java animations of the images.
For an index of this large, graphics-intensive site, see:
http://www.wordwizz.com/imagendx.htm
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