The week of Oct.12th - Oct. 14th, 2011

Math IA

We will spend a short week exploring real numbers.  Whenever we cover this topic, I am reminded of an old proverb…

Don't be like the frog at the bottom of the well who looks up at that small circle of stars and thinks that is all there is to heaven.  

My job this week is to expand my students’ sense of what is a number.  They know how to count, and they understand zero, but do they know where to put the square root of five on a number line? Can they tell a rational number from an irrational number? And if we have time, we might even discover complex numbers.

The week of Oct.3rd - Oct. 7th, 2011

Math IA
It has been said that mathematics is the study of patterns.  Next week, we will be focusing on patterns and functions.  We'll begin with some classic puzzles which I hope my students will find interesting and then move on to problems from their textbook.  The handouts we will begin with are entitled patterns 1-6 and links to them can be found in the sidebar.

first week 2011_2012

Math IA

The handouts we will be using this week are Area problems and Carpets and Stripping problems.