Best+Practices+-+mathematics

Projects and lessons submitted by attendees:

Betsy Potts __Columbus School for Girls__ All of our math classes in the Upper School use technology as much as possible. We use the Smartboard, Geometer’s Sketchpad, TI Interactive, and the TI-84 graphing calculator on a regular basis.

Mary Marable __St. Agnes Academy__ Using K'Nex to Build 6 foot Ferris Wheel and using it's application for Trigonometry Classes...

Madison Tracy __St. Agnes Academy__ Buiding K'nex mobile cars to incorporate variables and change in Algebra classes.

Fiona O'Doherty __Marymount School__ Using data from Earthwatch in Costa Rica in Math Class.

Liv Knatterud __Convent of the Visitation School__ Building and programming Lego Robots in computer science class.

Jeri Sutton __The Hockaday School__ K-12, all our teachers strive to integrate science, math, technology and engineering in the broadest sense. Students are always asked to consider how the system under discussion works and often design and build model systems to explore further.

Curt Zander __Convent of the Visitation__ Engineering lesson in math.

Sandy Wahl __St. Paul's School for Girls__ Designs with Geometric Shapes.

Betty Bourgeois __Ursuline Academy__ We teach a pre-engineering course titled "The Infinity Project."

Marion Athearn __Lincoln School__ We expect all our students to take four years of high school mathematics and offer courses such as Personal Finance and Advanced Geometry as alternatives to the more traditional algebra-based courses. Both of these courses are organized with a collaborative, problem-solving focus.

Gary McCue __Ashley Hall__ Scale drawing of buildings.

Maggie Friedfeld __Lincoln School__ Girls explore the concept of volume by creating replicas of food boxes both 1/3 the original size and 3 times the original size.

Stephane Moreau, Dena Greene, Joy Esterlitz __Holton-Arms School__ Creating extensive digial workbooks for students

John Jurjevich __Louise S. McGehee School__ Graphing calculators and TI-Smartview are used to explore linear relationships for real-life situations. Also linear regression is used to interpret scatter plots.

Beth Trilling __The Hewitt School__

Sue Pinckney __Santa Catalina School__ Using the students' descriptions of how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to emphasize the importance of the steps in proofs.

Lindsey Worcester __Young Women's Leadership Charter School__ Chicago River Trip Project and Science Fair.

Steve Kunec __Dana Hall__ Linear Regression.

Reney McAtee __Harpeth Hall School__