October+Training

October training October 11--Omaha, 12--Norfolk, 13--Kearney, 14--North Platte

I kept our "idea sheets" from the last time we met. We mentioned the following:
 * an activity/experiment such as the wave activity
 * an approach to what students may have trouble doing(I did slope last Sunday) and then an activity from one of our NCTM algebra books at which time the participants get to reflect and discuss the difficulty students may have
 * a writing/discussing activity possibly from the book Algebra Out Loud that all participants are getting
 * a puzzle and a discussion of the problem solving strategy used (although that can be a focus any and all times)
 * discussion of where algebra is used referring to newspaper, magazines, tv programs, etc. Possibly assigning participants to find, bring and share

At all times, algebraic habits of mind, process standards, and Nebraska Standards will be included topics.

Lenny I had some general ideas of doing writing, linking to the standards, sketch graphs of real function (height vs age), we probably should take a look at the pre-test. Guess and check to equation.

De One chapter of the 9-12 Navigation Algebra book has three activities focusing on the role of variables. I have the article mentioned on the first page of the intro to that from the Algebra Ideas book I got from Deb. R. long ago. The Algebra Ideas book has some good ideas, mini activities and quotes about the "variable roles" variables have. I am wondering about doing about 30 - 45 minutes from the Algebra Ideas book followed by the first two of those 3 activities from the NCTM book. Chuck, the first one has some nice mapping and I have seen you do that with Geogebra and it would work well to a spreadsheet as well. If you have time look at those activities on variables (see the table of contents).