Volume 5, Number 3
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17 January 2000 Vol. 5, No. 3
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Students' Classroom - NCES | Matrix Reference - Brookes
Mathed Research Centers
CALCULUS AWARD - ECALCULUS.ORG
A teacher may nominate any U.S. junior high school or high
school student. Nominations are due by February 29, 2000,
and ecalculus.org will award $1000 to the winning student.
For further information, see: http://www.ecalculus.org/ or
http://math.ucdavis.edu/~calculus/.
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WEEA/NECAC ON-LINE COURSE
The WEEA Equity Resource Center and New England Comprehensive
Assistance Center's on-line course, ENGAGING MIDDLE SCHOOL
GIRLS IN MATH AND SCIENCE, is being offered again beginning
February 14. Register by January 24th at
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/.
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STUDENTS' CLASSROOM - NCES
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/
A site where students and their parents can play and learn
about education. Projects include:
- Take a Quiz - test yourself on education in the U.S.
and around the world
- Create your own bar graph or pie chart
- What are your Chances? - a dice game about probability
- Mascot Matching Game - match the mascot to the university
- Word search - look for education and statistics terms
- Find Your School - search a database of thousands of
public K-12 schools
- Print a survey - collect data from your friends
- Color pictures online
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Games.html
Also included are a short glossary of words used on the site,
and a linked list of reports and other publications used to
compile much of the information offered.
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/glossary.html
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/reference.html
NCES is the main federal agency for collecting and analyzing
data related to education in the United States and other
nations: http://nces.ed.gov/
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MATRIX REFERENCE MANUAL - Mike Brookes
Imperial College, London, U.K.
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/matrix/intro.html
An alphabetical manual, from Abelian group to Zero matrix,
that contains reference information about linear algebra
and the properties of matrices, divided into: properties,
eigenvalues, special properties, relations, decompositions,
identities, equations, differentiation, stochastic
(statistical) properties, signals, examples, and formal
algebra. The notation is based on the MATLAB software
package.
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MATH EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTERS
CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING (CDT)
Education Development Center (EDC)
http://www.edc.org/LTT/CDT/
Currently focusing on mathematics and science teaching, the
Center carries out research and action projects that address
the issues involved in teacher change at three interacting
levels:
1) teachers' beliefs and knowledge about their subjects
and about learning and teaching
2) teachers' classroom practice
3) the complex social system that extends from the school
and school district to the society at large
Projects include:
- Administrators Working for Change
- Advancing Reforms in Science Education
- Cultivating Improvisational Perception
- Developing Mathematical Ideas Network
- Mathematics for Tomorrow
- Network for Inquiry in Mathematics Education
- Support for Students at the Center
- Teaching to the Big Ideas
- When the Learners' Thinking Takes Center Stage:
A Study of Teacher and Classroom Change
Abstracts of published papers and order forms are available
onsite.
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LEARNING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (LRDC)
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/
A multidisciplinary research center whose mission is to
understand and improve learning by children and adults in
the organizational settings in which they live and work:
schools, museums and other informal learning environments,
and workplaces. Fields of research include:
- Processes of Learning
- Learning in Schools and Museums
- Policy Research
- Outreach and Implementation
- Learning and Technology
- Learning and Work
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WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH (WCER)
School of Education, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/
One of the oldest and largest education research centers,
providing an environment where some of the country's leading
scholars conduct basic and applied education research. The
WCER roster includes nearly two dozen research centers and
projects currently investigating topics germane to education.
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/projects/math_science/
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For more, see the Math Forum's Internet Mathematics Library:
Math Education Research/Reform:
http://mathforum.org/library/ed_topics/rsch_reform/
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