Events of October 2009
- Family Math -- Fairies and Giants
- Oct 4, 2009
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Family Math provides an opportunity for grade school children and
their families to have fun together while learning about a math
topic. The topic for this session was fairies and giants.
Participants used proportional reasoning to reconstruct the sizes
of giants and fairies based on the sizes of their fingerprints.
- Family Math -- Fairies and Giants
- Oct 4, 2009
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Family Math provides an opportunity for grade school children and
their families to have fun together while learning about a math
topic. The topic for this session was fairies and giants.
Participants used proportional reasoning to reconstruct the sizes
of giants and fairies based on the sizes of their fingerprints.
- Consulting with Winston-Salem Math Circle
- Oct 9, 2009 – Oct 19, 2009
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We conferred by email and phone with Jim Kuzmanovich of the
Winston-Salem area in North Carolina about possibly starting a Math
Circle or other outreach program.
- ETHOS Science Spooktacular
- Oct 9, 2009 – Oct 10, 2009
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Learn to fold a Sonobe polyhedron at Elkhart's Hands-On Science Center
- Family Math -- Ancient Number Systems
- Oct 18, 2009
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Family Math provides an opportunity for grade school children and
their families to have fun together while learning about a math
topic. The topic for this session was ancient number systems.
Participants learned how to count and do arithmetic using Roman,
Mayan, and Chinese number systems
- Family Math -- Ancient Number Systems
- Oct 18, 2009
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Family Math provides an opportunity for grade school children and
their families to have fun together while learning about a math
topic. The topic for this session was ancient number systems.
Participants learned how to count and do arithmetic using Roman,
Mayan, and Chinese number systems
- Family Math -- Games and Probability
- Oct 25, 2009
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Family Math provides an opportunity for grade school children and
their families to have fun together while learning about a math
topic. The topic for this session was games and probability.
Participants analyzed several popular games to determine what
outcomes are most likely and how that relates to strategies for
playing.
- South Bend Community School Corporation Consulting and Professional Development
- Oct 27, 2009 – Dec 1, 2009
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Teachers and curriculum leaders from throughout the South Bend
Community School Corporation participated in grade-level workshops
focusing on problem solving.
- Eastwood Elementary Science Night
- Oct 28, 2009
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Visitors to our station learned to fold Magic Pinwheels and Sonobe Polyhedra
