TIMELINE for Projects

 The time table for the presentations/lessons is on the web.

 

Here is the sequence of events, products, etc that you should follow for the projects.  The goal here is not to make this complicated but to ensure that all the planning is done, the pieces are in place, etc., for a successful experience for all.

(1) Early discussion with Zach (already done)
 
(2A)  ABSTRACT: One-page outline of presentation submitted on paper or email prior to meeting 2B. Details below.
 
Note:  This is not just a hoop to jump through.  You need to do this to be prepared anyway.
 
(2B) Draft of your lesson.  Bring this to the meeting.  This is the place for the details of what you will write on the board, what you will have classmates do.
 
(2C) Pre-presentation editorial meeting JK or ZT.  This should take place two days or more in advance of presentation (i.e, Wed for Fri, Thursday for Monday, Monday for Wed).  The purpose is to go over the lesson and discuss issues such as amount of time needed, points about the math, etc.
 
(3) Presentation/Lesson on your topic.  In 445 class or in the lab. Figure on 30-35 minutes, but this can be negotiated in advance.
 
(4) Paper (due a week after your presentation). See below.

 

Details -- what should be in these parts?

2A ABSTRACT: 

This should contain the following information.

 

NAMES of members of the team.

TITLE of lesson/presentation

 

OUTLINE or LIST of topics/facts/concepts/theorems etc that you will teach. (Note:  Just an outline, so not all the detaMODE of presentation and TIMELINE.  Will this be a lecture, hands-on activity, discussion, a combination?  How long with the various pieces take, if there is more than one?

 

GOAL:  What main points do you expect your classmates to learn?  Try to be brief on this one.

 

ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS:  What are the questions that you expect the class to be able to answer?  Are these questions that they can answer immediately after the lesson or are they "homework" type questions.  In this case, give the questions in detail, as you expect to ask them.

 

MATERIALS

 

What materials will YOU bring, if any? Handouts, powerpoint, cardboard?

 

What materials will your classmates need?  Scissors, compasses?

 

What materials do you need from the instructors?  Spheres, polydrons, triangles?  WILL YOU NEED TO USE COMPUTER PROJECTION?  In the lab, will you need to distribute files?

 

 

(4) PAPER

 There will be a bit more about this next week, but the goal should be a paper 10-15 pages long that gives a readable and coherent explanation of some mathematics.  The better papers will show evidence of personal involvement in the math -- interesting examples worked out, Aha! experiences with big ideas, choices of ways to explain an idea after comparing different sources.  A weaker paper – even if the authors understand the math -- will either not read well or read well but will seem to be a slight paraphrase of someone else's book, website, etc. So the paper is not a journal or diary, but it is not a textbook chapter either.

 

Since this is geometry, pictures are usually a good idea.

 

As a scholarly paper, of course you will be expected to cite your sources, so be sure to keep the information for a bibliography.  Again, it is better to have a few sources that you really digested and used rather than a long list that of possibly good resources that were not really read.