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Re: [MATHEDU] Writing Requirement
Posted:
Nov 22, 1999 3:19 PM
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I hope Judy doesn't mind my forwarding this on to this list. I'd really
like to get a discussion going, because the experiences we're basing on are
really quite different-- no one formula is going to apply. best, sk
>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:26:33 -0600
>From: Judy Roitman <roitman@math.ukans.edu>
>Subject: Re: [MATHEDU] Writing Requirement
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>To: "Sandra Z. Keith" <keith@STCLOUDSTATE.EDU>
>Original-recipient: rfc822;keith@stcloudstate.edu
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>I have had great success asking students in my first semester geometry
>course for teachers to read a couple of chapters of a state of the art high
>school text (Connected Geometry, absolutely gorgeous) and write about it in
>their own words. I have them do this as group projects.
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>The secret is to pick relatively low level material. Some sources:
>Mathematics Intelligencer; College Math Journal; other texts, or even your
>own text with optional material.
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>(I'm having trouble sending this to the NExT list. If you think it's
>helpful, could you send it on? Thanks.)
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Sandra Z. Keith
Mathematics
St. Cloud State, St. Cloud, MN 56301
http://stcloudstate.edu/~keith/
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