Program
Local Host: Jo Anne Robinson
New Geometer's Sketchpad 4.0: Jim King
The new version of Sketchpad has many new features and a new look and feel.
See examples showing the powerful new graphing, the custom tools, and the
multipage documents. Then we will convert an example into an interactive web
page!
Music and Math: Ronda Webber and Will Webber
Music and math are connected from the very basics of counting and rhythms
to the more complexness of waves and sounds. This session will start
with time meters and go through the mathematics of sound waves. We will
touch upon counting, fractions, frequencies, waves, and more. No prior
music knowledge is required. However, if you have an instrument please
bring it with you.
Getting to Know Gnomons: Karen Hall
We'll examine the construction and applications of spiral growth from
the viewpoint of gnomons. A gnomon (pronounced know-man) to figure A
is a connected figure which when suitably attached to A produces a new
figure which is similar to A. Applications will include the golden triangle
and golden rectangle
Math in the Middle Years (4-8): Joyce Frost and Michael Naylor
This presentation will preview a 15-hour summer minicourse called
Making Sense of Manipulatives in the K-8 Classroom that will be offered for
the first time in the NWMI Summer 2002 Program. In the course one will
learn to make effective use of manipulatives to build geometry, number sense,
measurement, and fraction concepts.
