Volume 9, Number 31
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2 August 2004 Vol. 9, No. 31
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Planet 5th - Handheld Lesson Plans | What Works Clearinghouse
CMP Unit Organizers
PLANET 5TH - HANDHELD LESSON PLANS
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/handhelds/activities2.html
One area of Tony Vincent's web site for his 5th grade class
includes activities that utilize multiple Palm applications
and take advantage of handheld computing.
Math lesson plans include:
Discovering Decimals
Grades 4 - 6
Exploring Integers
Grades 6 - 8
Exploring Roman Numerals
Grades 4 - 8
Getting to Know Numbers
Grades 1 - 2
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WHAT WORKS CLEARINGHOUSE
http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002
by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education
Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers,
and the public with a central and trusted source of
scientific evidence of what works in education.
The WWC aims to promote informed education decision making
through a set of easily accessible databases and
user-friendly reports that provide education consumers with
ongoing, high-quality reviews of the effectiveness of
replicable educational interventions (programs, products,
practices, and policies) that intend to improve student
outcomes.
The WWC has reviewed studies of these and other Middle
School Math Curricula interventions:
- Cognitive Tutor
- Compass Learning
- Connected Mathematics Project (CMP)
- Connecting Math Concepts (CMC)
- Destination Math
- Expert Mathematician
- I CAN Learn (ICL)
- Middle School MATHThematics
- Partnership for Access to Higher Mathematics
- Saxon Math
- Successmaker
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CMP UNIT ORGANIZERS
http://mabbott.org/CMPUnitOrganizers.htm
To introduce students to new units from the Connected
Mathematics Project (CMP), Art Mabbott has developed a set
of Unit Organizers. Adapting work done by B. Keith Lenz, of
the University of Nebraska, Mabbott has also shared his
MS Word documents with other teachers to provide additional
support as they become familiar with the CMP materials.
Each Unit Organizer has a "big picture," a graphic to help
visual learners; an assignment list, with tasks aligned to
Seattle and Washington State Standards; and self-test
questions.
Units include:
6th Grade: Prime Time; Data About Us; Shapes & Designs;
Bits & Pieces I; Covering & Surrounding; How Likely Is It?;
Bits & Pieces II; Ruins of Montarek
7th Grade: Variables & Patterns; Stretching & Shrinking;
Comparing & Scaling; Accentuate the Negative; Moving
Straight Ahead; Filling & Wrapping; What Do You Expect?;
Data Around Us
8th Grade: Thinking With Mathematical Models; Looking for
Pythagoras; Growing, Growing, Growing; Frogs, Fleas, &
Painted Cubes; Say It With Symbols; Kaleidoscopes, Hubcaps,
and Mirrors; Samples & Populations; Clever Counting
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