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Northwest Mathematics Interaction Workshop

John Stanford Center, Seattle Public Schools
November 17, 2012

Date and time: Saturday, November 17, 2012, 9:00 to 4:00

Workshop is free, but advance registration required. You can register by emailing Joyce Frost <frostjoycee@gmail.com>. 

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

8:30-9:00 Registration, Pastries and Social Time

9:00--12:00: Morning Session

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch*

1:00 - 4:00 Afternoon Session

 

 

 

Morning Session: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Games, Challenges, and Explorations (60 minutes)
Mark Roop-Kharasch: Former Math Teacher, now Editor, Author, Math Game Designer for Qwizdom

  • Advice and techniques for creating your own games, challenges and explorations will be shared and tried out.

Using Cooperative Learning and Patty Paper to Investigate Properties of Special Parallelograms (45 minutes)
Amy Vaughn: School of Education, Seattle Pacific University

Discovery of a Most Extraordinary Law of Numbers Concerning the Sum of Their Divisors (60 minutes)
Bob Stein: Californis State College San Bernardino, retired

  • We will follow LaPlace's famous advice, "Read Euler, he is teacher of us all," by exploring one of Euler's beautiful articles. .

LUNCH (12:00 – 1:00)

Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Electronic Tools of the Trade (30 minutes)
Clint Chan, Math Teacher, Lynnwood High School

  • Come share some of the online tools that I use almost daily in and preparing for math classes. Use ExamView to generate nicely-formatted graphs for handouts and learn about Computer Science resources that can be easily adapted for use in your math class. Bring along a laptop if you’d like to try some of these out!

How symmetries combine to make pretty designs (60 minutes)
Jim King: University of Washington Math

  • See how for symmetries that one plus one is one, and what one that is.

What's new from TI? NSPIRE ON THE LAPTOP (60 minutes)
Art Mabbott, Math Teacher, Scholars Online

  • Now you can interact with your students using laptops, a wireless network and TI’s network software. We will download a temp version of the student software so you can participate as your students would. Bring your laptop and let’s experiment!
  Local Hosts: Art Mabbott, Joyce Frost

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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