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Northwest Mathematics Interaction Workshop

John Stanford Center, Seattle Public Schools
November 19, 2005

Date and time: Saturday, November 19, 2005, 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--12:00

  • Adsit
  • Frost
  • Frost
  • Wageman.

12:00-1:00 Lunch*

1:00 - 4:00

  • Hall
  • King

 

Program

Local Hosts: Art Mabbott, Joyce Frost

9:00 - 12:00 Morning Program

The morning program will be led by a team of teachers from Lake Washington High School.

  • Lynn Adsit: Vertical Teaming Through Powerful Problems -- revisiting classic problems at many levels.
  • Joyce Frost and Joe Frost: Prime Numbers -- Prime Sieves, RSA encryption, some Notorious and Named Primes and activities for grades 4-12
  • Renee Wageman: Geometry Jeopardy -- a review tool in a game show format

1:00-4:00

  • Karen Hall: News and Information from OSPI, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
  • Jim King: Angles from Many Angles -- Defining and measuring angles - is it more complicated than we think? Visualizing some striking angle facts. Angles beyond the plane. Amazing star spiderwebs with straws (real or virtual)!

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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