TTE 326
Teaching Elementary Mathematics in a Technological Age
Spring 2005
Dr. Robin A. Ward
COURSE MATERIALS
Format of Reflection on Lesson Plan
Format of Reflection on Book Reading/Sharing
Children's Books with a Math Theme
Biographies about Mathematicians or Contributors to Mathematics
Ideas for Developing Your Children's Book
RESOURCES FOR YOUR FUTURE TEACHING
Compiled List of Children's Literature with Math Themes
Biographies about Mathematicians or Contributors to Mathematics
Birth Places of Famous Mathematicians
Annotated List of Useful Web Sites
NASA-based Mathematics Activities for K-12 Teachers
NASA Kids Page (Lesson Plans, Teaching Ideas, etc.)
SOFTWARE WE WILL EXPLORE
The Graph Club (Data collection and graphing software for grades K-4)
TableTop, Junior (Sorting and classifying software for grades K-5)
Tesselmania! Deluxe (Students in grades 3-12 can explore and create tessellations)
The Geometer's SketchPad (Students in grades 5-college can dynamically explore geometry)
Field Trip to Krispy Kreme
WRITING IN THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
Ask students to sketch a mathematician (and then write a response to the question, "What is math?)
NASA Activity: "Letters to the Man in the Moon"
Books Authored by Students This Semester
Books Authored by Students in Prior Semesters
INTEGRATING MATH AND ART
PROBLEM SOLVING MATERIALS
Brain Teasers #1 Brain Teasers #2 Brain Teasers #3 Brain Teasers #4
Grid for Solving Brain Teasers
Four Color Map Activity
Four Color Map - Background Information
NUMBER SENSE MATERIALS
The Year 1904...Compared to Now
NASA Activity: "Predicting and Estimating Speeds and the SR-71"
NASA Activity: "Space Shuttle Statistics"
Magnitude of Numbers Activity
How Much Is a Million? by David Schwartz
Web Site: How Much Is a Million?
Web Site: Bill Gates' Net Worth
Web Site: View the World in Powers of Ten (space ==> ground)
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Estimation Centers Activity
Fraction Centers
Ideas for Using Manipulatives to Teach Fractions
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
Two Dice Sum Activity (and notes)
Tootsie Pop Activity
Tootsie Pop Data Collection Worksheet
Making a Box and Whiskers Plot
More Box and Whiskers Plot Info
Global Village Activity
If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel
P is for Passport: A World Alphabet by Devin Scillian
Boys and Girls of the World by Barron’s Education
Sample Graph - Political Systems in the Global Village
Sample Graph - Cell Phone Users in the Global Village
Website: Read to Feed Challenge
Website: Population Connection
Web Sites Containing Loads of Data and Statistics
Web Site: The Statistical Abstract of the United States
Web Site: Create a Graph Online
PATTERNS, ALGEBRA, AND FUNCTIONS MATERIALS
Sierpinski's Triangle on a local playground
Neat Fractal Web Site (lesson plan ideas)
Fractals: Virtual Manipulatives Fractals: More Virtual Manipulatives
Tangrams, Fractals, and Tessellation Web Sites
GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT
Historical Derivations on Geometry Terminology and Symbols
Geometry Walk at Rogers Elementary
Geometry Walk on UA Campus and Nearby Neighborhoods
NASA Activity: "Geometry in the Constellations"
Tangrams and Fractals Web Sites
Children's Literature Addressing Measurement
If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
How Big Is a Foot? by Rolf Myller
Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy
Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher by Stephanie Gwyn Brown
Measurement Activities Involving the Planets
Planets' Distances from the Sun
Website: Spreadsheet of the Size of the Planets and Their Distances from the Sun
Project ASTRO: Size of Planets/Playdoh Activity
Website: Visual Comparison of the Size of Planets
Website: Relative Sizes of the Planets
Website: A Not-So-Accurate View of the Size of Planets and Their Distances from the Sun
Project ASTRO: Your Weight on Another Planet
NASA Website: Your Age on Other Planets
NASA Website: Your Weight on Other Planets
Exploratorium Website: Your Age on Other Planets
Exploratorium Website: Your Weight on Other Planets
Website: The Planets' Many Moons
Books Containing Great Ideas on Teaching about Astronomy
The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn M. Branley
(excerpt from this book showing how to model the phases of the moon)
The Planets in Our Solar System by Franklyn M. Branley
(excerpt from this book showing how to make a planet mobile and explore the distances of planets from the sun)
The Sky Is Full of Stars by Franklyn M. Branley
(excerpt from this book showing how to create constellations)
Tessellation Activity
A Cloak for the Dreamer by Aileen Friedman
List of Useful Tessellation Web Sites
Tessellation Web Site (lesson plan ideas)
The Official M.C. Escher Website
Pictures of TTE 326 Students' Tessellations
Tessellation Walk (Tessellations in your neighborhood)
Three Dimensional Solids Information
Platonic Solids, Archimedean Solids, etc. Nets Web Site
Symmetry Information
Website: How to Make a Snowflake
Draw the other half of a photo (to demonstrate symmetry)
Draw the other half of a photo: Original Photo Sketch right-hand side
Symmetry in a Leaf Activity - Photo #1 Photo #2
What comes next in this pattern?
Symmetry in Famous People:
Cindy Crawford (before) Cindy (left) Cindy (right)
George Bush (before) George (left) George (right)
Lute Olson (before) Lute (left) Lute (right)
Website: Symmetry in International Flags
NASA Activity: "Symmetry (or Not!) in Aircraft
