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Making Math Fun - ICTM / NCTM Presentation
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ICTM 2001 & 2003 Presentation by Robert Greenlee greenleera@
Wheaton Warrenville South High School
1993 Tiger Trail Wheaton, Il. 60187
630/682-2064
Introduction
“Good teachers are usually a little crazy.”
- Rooney, Andy (b. 1919) American journalist
“A good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
- Godwin, Gail (b. 1937) American writer
Starting Class Activities
Pictionary/Charades
ex) Top Gun, Rudy, Hoosiers, Field of Dreams
Video Clips
Quick check - review problem or from homework (usually a challenging problem)
1st person correct 1 jolly rancher and 2 EC,
next person 1 jolly rancher and 1 EC,
third person 1 EC, everyone else nothing
or 1 EC if only a few correct students
Puzzles
Sequences & Series - Patterns Sheet
Mathematical Induction
Domino Rally
Seurat’s painting: “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte”
Neat Polar Graphs
Trig. - Chief SOH CAH TOA story
Escalante - standup/sitdown (special angles and quadrants)
Basic Graphs: Math Aerobics .
After Test (end of period) Activity
Snafooz
1-800-628-0070 or html/Snafooz.html
Idea Group, Inc. 82-775 Market St., Indio, CA 92201
Use Tickets
Drawings
Free Homework
Extra Credit on next quiz or test
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Movies
Math Movies
Stand and Deliver
Pay It Forward
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land
Point and the Line
Movie Pick of the Week
Matrix, Little Big Man, Untamed Heart
Video Clips
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (compound trigonometric functions and frequency)
Top Gun (parabolas)
Paper Moon (pyramid schemes and other scams)
Homework
Math worksheets - Creative Publications
Graphs - have points or curves that when connected make a shape
Silly - Mom’s - Proof
Crossword Puzzles etc. ( create your own puzzles)
Race Track Betting
Checking HW
Which one is wrong
Certain problem correct
Predict how many got certain one correct
(can also be used with lecture - example checking for understanding)
Cartoons/Jokes/Quotes
On overhead to start class
Where appropriate in discussions/lecture
On handouts, quizzes, tests
Bulletin board (comic/quote of the day or week)
- Charlie Brown, Fox Trot, Family Circus, Calvin and Hobbs, etc.
Quote of the Day in students’ journals (see CD)
Posters with funny sayings ex) Tiger posters
Polar Valentine Card
[pic]
(In my eyes and in my heart you are lovely as a rose.)
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Fun Worksheets for All Classes
Frames 1 and 2
Number Game
Logic
Thinking Outside the Box
Visual Puzzle
Patterns
Glyph
Puzzles 2 and 3
Math Terms
Math Occupations
Old Teachers
Puns
Anagrams
Decipher the Phrase
Obvious Quiz
Human Algebra
Worksheets for Algebra II or Precalculus
Drinking Exponential Worksheet
Biorhythms
Directed Graph Soap Opera Worksheet
Chain Letters / Pyramid Scheme Overhead
Log Humor
Log Worksheet
Earthquake Log Worksheet
Lotto Worksheet 1
Lotto Worksheet 2
Lotto Excel Spreadsheet
Modified Growth Curve
Regression Worksheet
Puns
More Puns
Name the Math Term
Logistic Growth Worksheet
Strange Proofs
Songs
Bob Garvey - y=mx+b etc. (4 cassette tapes $9 each) bgarvey@
1835 Princeton Drive
Louisville, KY 40205
Signs by Five Man Electric Band
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Songs continued
Jim Warwick - quadratic formula:
Quadratic Formula Song
by Jim Warwick
Sing to the tune of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
Negative b plus or minus, the square root of b squared
(Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd)
Minus 4 times a times c
(Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack)
All over 2 times a
(I don’t care if I ever get back)
For there’s root root root in the numerator (point to the root sign)
(For it’s root root root for the game team)
If no b squared (point to b squared in the numerator), it’s a shame
(If we don’t win it’s a shame)
For there’s one two three terms in all in this old formula.
(point to the three terms)
(For it’s one two three strikes you’re out at the old ball game.)
Hats
Hard hat, Cowboy, Wizard, Miner
Memorization Tricks
SOH CAH TOA
F a c t or
e Mnemonic (2.718281828)
“I’m forming a mnemonic to remember a function in analysis. ”
(Note: The number of letters in each word represents a digit in e.)
Pi Mnemonics (3.14159265358979) “How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy
lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
(Note: The number of letters in each word represents a digit in Pi.)
Fred Foil with picture
Calculator Tricks (6), ESP (3), Number Magic (11), and Card Tricks (3)
ESP - explained using: binary numbers, and simplifying factional variable expressions
Math Number Magic - explained using: adding arithmetic, algebra and decimal place values,
math induction, multiplying arithmetic, modular clock arithmetic, distributive property with variable expressions
Card Tricks - explained using: matrix row and columns, algebra
Calculator Tricks - most are arithmetic based
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Certificates
Computer/ Calculator Games
GreenGlobs
Review
Games
Basketball: 1 pt correct answer, 1 pt for basket made - using wiffle ball in waste basket from short distance away (only get to shoot if question answered correct), 2 pts for long shot across the room (only get to shoot if 1st shot was made)
Millionaire
Jeopardy
Football
Baseball
Survivor
Put steps in order (completing the square)
Groups
Picking Group Assignments (recorder etc.) - Person with most siblings, with biggest earlobes, with dirtiest shoes, with youngest mother, person who lives farthest away, who went farthest away during vacation, etc.
Group Picking Techniques (adopted from Mary Kay Doorhy Hinsdale Central H.S., IL.)
Deck of cards - get one card when entering the class
(all kings are a group and any jokers pick their own group)
Candy - given at start of class (group by type jolly ranchers, suckers, etc.)
Divide class in half by a race for a prize according to ID or birth date or number of
siblings. However, they cannot talk when putting themselves in order.
(Group by making the first four in a row a group etc. or person across from you in the other
row is your partner.)
Premade flash cards - get a card when entering the class (matching cards of the
same category are a group such as: baseball, football, basketball teams; people from the
same TV show - Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Joey; words from the same song; math
problems, expressions, fractions, equations that simplify to the same thing)
Communication Styles – “True Colors”: Fly Your True Colors: The Famous System That
Shows You How to Soar Above Your Limitations with Cards by Don Lowry and
Follow Your True Colors To The Work You Love: The Workbook by Carolyn Kalill,
Don Lowry, Mike Berry
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Getting Data
Linear
Book Pass - Time how long it takes (5) people to do:
trial 1: Start with 3 books stacked; 1st person passes 1st book then 2nd then 3rd
to next person (next person has a stack of 3 books in front of them now),
2nd person passes books in similar fashion to next person and so on
trial 2: Start with 4 books stacked; and pass as above
Graphed data will be number of books (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) versus time
Quadratic (and Gauss arithmetic sum formula)
"This is more fun than tipping cows" (thanks to Greg Hill, Hinsdale Central H.S.,IL.)
Time how long it takes people to say the above:
trial 1: start with 3 people; 1 person says it, then 2nd person, then 3rd,
then back to 1st person, then 2nd person
then back to 1st person (3+2+1)
trial 2: start with 5 people; 1 person says it, then 2nd person, then 3rd, then 4th, then 5th,
then back to 1st person, then 2nd person, then 3rd, then 4th,
then back to 1st person, then 2nd person, then 3rd,
then back to 1st person, then 2nd person,
then back to 1st person (5+4+3+2+1)
trial 3: start with 7 people; etc.
trial 4: start with 9 people; etc.
Graphed data will be number of people (3, 5, 7, 9) versus time
Exponential growth or decay
M&M's (or skittles)
Logistic growth (see contagious disease overhead worksheet)
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Making Math Fun - CD Contents
Note: Most document files on the CD are written in Word 6.0 / 95
for PC computers using Windows 95/98/Me/xp
Only On the CD and Not On the Web Site:
Math Humor (86 pages, 129 items)
School Humor (126 pages, 167 items)
Math Sayings, Puns, and Quotes (25 pages, 6 categories, including 250 math quotes)
Teacher Sayings and Quotes (30 pages, including 435 sayings and quotes)
Words of Wisdom and Inspiration for Teachers (53 pages, 57 items)
Math Songs And Poems (89 pages, 150 items)
Poems for Teachers (18 pages, 30 poems)
Homework Research (12 pages)
Math Anxiety Paper (2 pages)
Math Award
Alphametic Explanation & Worksheet
PowerPoint Jeopardy Game Templates
Excel Lotto Spreadsheets (5)
Graph Paper with Grids (15)
Form Letters, Templates, etc. (30)
Abacus and Slide Ruler applications
Number Names, Facts, & Conversions (15 files)
History of Math Symbols (48 pages)
Careers in Math (4 pages)
Illusions (9 pages)
Rubrics (65)
Educational Quotes Screen Saver & Backgrounds (17)
PowerPoint Templates (84)
Resume Information (13 pages)
Clip Art (710 items) & Animated GIFs (118)
Web Sites (216)
On the CD and On the Web Site (as Downloadable PDF - Acrobat Reader - Files):
Algebra I: 14 files
Geometry: 6 files
Algebra II / Precalculus: 38 files
Any Class: 58 files
Math Tricks: 22 files, 27 items
Cost:
Price: $7.00 (includes shipping and handling)
$5.00 (if purchased in person)
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Robert Greenlee
2057 Richton Dr.
Wheaton, IL. 60187
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