TTE 326
Teaching Elementary Mathematics in a Technological Age
Spring 2004
Dr. Robin A. Ward
COURSE MATERIALS
Birth Places of Famous Mathematicians
Additional Specifications for Mathematician Biography Assignment
Instructions on Accessing The Graph Club
Annotated List of Useful Web Sites
Ideas for Developing Your Final Project (Children's Book)
SOFTWARE WE WILL EXPLORE
WRITING IN THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
Ask students to sketch a mathematician (and then write a response to the question, "What is math?)
Field Trip to Krispy Kreme
PROBLEM SOLVING MATERIALS
Brain Teasers More Brain Teasers Even More Brain Teasers Grid for Solving Brain Teasers
Four Color Map Activity
Four Color Map - Background Information
NUMBER SENSE MATERIALS
The Year 1904...Compared to Now
Magnitude of Numbers Activity
Web Site: Bill Gates' Net Worth
Web Site: How Much Is a Million?
Estimation Centers Activity
Fraction Centers
Fraction Circles (whole, halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths)
Exploring Fractions Using Geoboards
Exploring Fractions Using Color Tiles
Exploring Fractions Using Pattern Blocks
Fraction Challenge (Fraction War)
DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY MATERIALS
Tootsie Pop Activity
Tootsie Pop Data Collection Worksheet
Making a Box and Whiskers Plot
More Box and Whiskers Plot Info
Web Sites Containing Loads of Data and Statistics
Web Site: The Statistical Abstract of the United States
Web Site: Create a Graph Online
Other Related Materials
Two Dice Sum Activity (and notes)
PATTERNS, ALGEBRA, AND FUNCTIONS MATERIALS
Neat Fractal Web Site (lesson plan ideas)
GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT
Historical Derivations on Geometry Terminology and Symbols
Tessellation Web Site (lesson plan ideas)
List of Useful Tessellation Web Sites
Pictures of TTE 326 Students' Tessellations
Tangrams and Fractals Web Sites
Platonic Solids, Archimedean Solids, etc. Nets Web Site