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Newsletter: Math Forum Internet News, No. 12
Posted:
Dec 22, 1996 2:00 AM
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23 December 1996 Vol.1, No.12
'97 Joint Math Meetings | Tangrams Web Unit | '96 ThinkQuest Finalists
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
AMS/MAA JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS
January 8-11, 1997
San Diego, California, U.S.A.
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| INFO ON SELECTED SESSIONS (AT THE FORUM) |
| http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathed/jm97/ |
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A great deal of information about this important
conference is available on the official Web site.
The pages hosted by the Forum provide organized listings
of talks that are particularly relevant to issues
featured on the Forum Web site. These include such
subjects as College Standards, Math Education Reform,
and Careers in Math.
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TANGRAMS WEB UNIT - TOM SCAVO
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/trscavo/tangrams.html
Tangrams help develop spatial-visualization skills, and
may also be used to introduce or reinforce geometric
concepts such as congruency, similarity, and symmetry.
This unit for grades 4-6 uses tangrams to find the areas
of polygons without employing formulas. Students construct
their own tangrams, find the areas, and learn to calculate
the area of any polygon made from tangrams.
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The Math Forum is committed to being a resource built
upon the activity of the teachers, students, and
researchers who use it. We continue to experiment with
the use of the Web for instruction and with involving
Forum users in the creation of materials for this enormous
Internet classroom. Teacher Tom Scavo's Tangrams unit is
one example; you will find links to others on our Web
Units page:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/web.units.html
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1996 THINKQUEST CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
http://io.advanced.org/tq96/winners96awards.html
The 1996 finalists included two math projects in
the category Science and Mathematics:
First Place: The Science and Beauty of Fractals
http://tqd.advanced.org/3288/
Fourth Place: Chaos and Fractals
http://tqd.advanced.org/3703/
Congratulations on these excellent projects!
RULES FOR THINKQUEST '97
(deadline: January 31, 1997)
http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest/rules.html
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