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Weekly Math UpdatesApril 15, 2008 Contents:
Happy Tax Day!!! Sorry to all of you that took this as a reminder... WMD Store is open Help support the comics and promote the death of fuzzy math. Follow the first link to visit the store and buy a t-shirt, mouse pad, or mug. http://www.cafepress.com/wmdcomics Click here to make a donation through Paypal UVU's Remediation Rate A little while ago we learned that UVU and SLCC both have very high remediation rates. I was asked recently if the rate was still as high so I directed the question to Carolyn Hamilton, the chair of the math department at UVU. This was her reply which she gave permission for me to send out.
Google Searches Have you ever googled your name? I bet a lot of you have. Something I hadn't googled in a long time was "Investigations Math". Try it out. Gotta love that placement. :)
Media Articles Essential Qualities of Math Teaching Remain Unknown
10,000 Math Teachers Flock to SLC
Cutting edge??? Hmmmmm. Math report recommends teachers focus more in depth on fewer skills
Yea!!! Someone states what parents have known and too many educators have ignored!!!
Yea!!! The outsiders are given some credit!!!
Yea!!! Investigations math is put down. BOO to the author who believes there's such a program as drill and kill. Practice makes perfect, and drill is required for conceptual understanding the same way a pianist must practice to get good and understand the depths of the instrument.
Handipoints-Way cool tool for your kids OK, this is just really cool and I anticipate the person that made this site is going to do pretty well with it. Handipoints is a system that allows parents to set up custom charts for kids where they earn two types of points, one toward their allowance, the other toward site credit to buy things like costumes for their characters or watch simple little cartoons on the site. They get a cat mascot they can personalize and it's a cute looking site. What's really cool is the system where you can set up multiple charts for them like one for school work, one for doing other positive things which could be playing an instrument, being kind to their sibbling, exercising, etc... You also can set up a negative chart with the things they have behavioral issues with like yelling or hitting or whatever. Then you can use a grading system on the site as the parent to rate the job they did and it fractionalizes their points automatically so if a job was worth 4 points and they did a bad job they might only get 2 points. Check it out here:
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (7 minute trailer) Ben Stein has put together what looks like a great film exposing the intolerance of the education system in even considering intelligent design. The movie will be in select theaters only on 4/18 so if you're interested, get out to it this week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCxbhGaVfE
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