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Northwest Mathematics Interaction Workshop

John Stanford Center, Seattle Public Schools
October 23, 2004

Date and time: Saturday, October 23, 2004, 9:00 to 4:00

Workshop is free, but advance registration required. You can register on the web using our online form.

Location:
John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence
Seattle Public Schools
2445 3RD Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134

Click here for driving directions to the John Stanford Center

(On the corner of 3rd Ave. S and South Lander) We will meet on the second floor and there will be signs. Parking is available is two small lots adjacent to the center. Additional parking is also available in a large lot north of the complex.

Program Schedule

Program: 9:00 to 4:00

8:45 Registration

9:00--11:00 Trains and Counting

11:00 - 12:00 Puzzle

12:00-1:00 Lunch*

1:00 - 4:00 NWMC highlights

 

 

Program

Local Host: Art Mabbott

9:00 - 11:00 Trains and Counting from the Park City Mathematics Institute.

Art Mabbott, Jim King and our local PCMI alumni - We will make trains from Cuisenaire rods to investigate some grown-up counting problems!

These problems are in pdf files linked to Math Content Class on Park City 2004 Mathforum classnotes page..

11:00-12:00 The Puzzle Joe Said Was Impossible

Joyce Frost gets to embarrass her spouse while showing us a neat puzzle!

1:00-4:00 Things I learned at NW Math Conference

  • Connie Savoie - Origami Frame Structures
  • Kelley Butler - Another Way to Look At Systems of Linear Equations
  • Ginny Burton and Marta Trimble - Exploring Sierpinski's Triangle
  • Art Mabbott - Paper folding regular and irregular polygons Reference: geo paperpolygons - Exploring 2D shapesthrough paper folding by James Burnett (Published in Australia by Prime Education in
    2001, ISBN 0-9585582-7-2)

Details and Sign-Up

* Lunch is on your own. However, we will provide locations restaurants near by. Or you can bring a sack lunch.

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