Workshop - April 5 '05

Piscataway

T.M.T.

A Collaboration between the Piscataway Township Schools & the
Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education (CIESE)

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T.M.T. Workshops -> April 5th, 2005

Today's Activities:

Setting the Stage – Overview – Enhancing math instruction with dynamic software tools (15-20 minutes)

Activities involving Geometer's Sketchpad
- It's Pizza Time!
- Name those Shape Makers!
- Pattern Blocks for Sale
- Finding Area of Polygons Using Pick's Rule
  Use this applet to help you discover the rule
  Download the geoboard for Geometer's Sketchpad. Click here for the mac version.
  Click here for instructions of how to create this geoboard
- More Sketchpad Activities - 6th and 7th grade

Activities involving Excel and Applets

Who is the “fat” cat in this bunch? - Data analysis activity involving measurements of cats: their weights, body lengths and determining their “fat” ratios.
The Million three-Cube Roll Race - Predict who will win! Middle School students will contribute to the race by rolling 3 dice 100 times and posting their results on the Internet. The goal will be to reach a million rolls.

Repeating and Terminating Decimals - Can every fraction be written as a repeating decimal?

Resources

101 project ideas for Geometer's Sketchpad. Sixteen of the project ideas are downloadable at - http://keypress.com/sketchpad/general_resources/101_project_ideas/

Other Projects and Websites

2004 Summer Institute:
- Day 1 - August 3, 2004
- Day 2 - August 4, 2004

NJ Department of Education

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