Volume 9, Number 43

25 October 2004 Vol. 9, No. 43 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Parents: How to Help When You Don't Know How Innovate | Puzzles on Wheels PARENTS: HOW TO HELP WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/howtohelp/ This week's ENC Focus issue provides references and resources that can help parents help their children toward learning success. "Every parent knows what it's like to be in a classroom -- a decade or more ago. So much has changed since even the youngest parents were in school, from teaching methods to textbooks to expectations for parent participation." Sections of the issue include: - That's Not the Way I Learned It! - Helping the Helpers - General Help - Math Help - Science Help There is an online flyer that can be printed to send home or email to parents. For more information about a subscription to this free Eisenhower National Clearinghouse weekly web magazine, see: http://www.enc.org/features/focus/updates/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- INNOVATE http://www.innovateonline.info The inaugural issue of Innovate, a peer-reviewed bimonthly e-journal on research and practice of the use of information technology to enhance education, is now available. James L. Morrison, Editor-In-Chief, invites users to "... do more than simply read. Use our one-button features to comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in webcasts with authors in our Innovate-Live forums. Join us in exploring the best uses of this technology to improve the ways we think, learn, and live." Articles include: - The Future of Learning Technologies: An Interview with Chris Dede, by James Morrison - Video Game Studies and the Emerging Instructional Revolution, by Joel Foreman - Experiencing Knowledge, by Donald Norris, Jon Mason, and Paul Lefrere - Effective Technology Integration in Teacher Education: A Comparative Study of Six Programs, by Gilbert Valdez, Kathleen Fulton, Robert L. Blomeyer, Jr., Allen Glenn, and Nicole A. Wendel - Scaling Up: From Web-Enhanced Courses to a Web-Enhanced Curriculum, by Robert E. Wood - Web Publishing for the Individual, Not the Enterprise, by Jonathan Maybaum - Rethinking Space and Time: The Role of Internet Technology in a Large Lecture Course, by Diane Harley, Jonathan Henke, and Michael W. Maher -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- PUZZLES ON WHEELS http://www.msri.org/pow/ Riders of the San Francisco Municipal Railway will have a chance to solve an intriguing puzzle to win $100.00 during the fall/winter launch of the "Think Math" poster project. Over the next five months, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley is sponsoring a special city-wide effort to bring challenging and fun mathematics to citizens of all ages, especially school-age children. This is a pilot project that MSRI hopes to expand across the nation. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- 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/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/discussions/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/ Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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