Math 402G ~ Investigations in School Geometry (and Measurement)

Spring 2001 - Western Illinois University Quad Cities Regional Center

James Olsen, Instructor

Click here for a Math 402 Study Guide by Shawn Dykstra

Textbook

We have covered (or will cover) the following pages in the Paper Folding Textbook:
Pages 1-20; 23; 28-37; 91-101 (The corresponding Overhead Transparency Masters at the back of the book also may provide a useful review.)
We have covered (or will cover) the following pages in the Student Workbook:
1-6; 9-11; 15top; 20-50.

Directions for Peer Evaluation of the Paper Draft

Read the paper and correct grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation errors.
Write comments:

Address the breadth of the paper. Were a good, wide variety of reasons given?
Address the organization and structure of the paper. Is it readable? Does the reader know what's coming next?
Make suggestions for improvement.

Suggestions for making a web site for your project.

Determine who your audience(s) is(are).
Determine your purpose(s) for the web site. Make this (along with the intended audience[s]) clear to the user.
You should include some information that you have created/compiled

Just making a list of links does not provide anything very new (this has been done)
Your contribution need not be real sophisticated.

If you do include links, then it is a good idea to have them be "annotated." This means you have a sentence or two telling what the user will be getting (this save considerable time for the user).

It is best to link to pages that have actual content. If you link to pages of other links, make this clear to the user.

Organization of the page is very important. People like to skim and skip around.
For your sources, you should include some print materials (only using the web for sources is too narrow), such as books, journals, and teacher resource materials.
Include some information about yourself. This could be on a separate page linked from the main page.
Use your creativity and graphics.

IDEA for Problems of the Week. This isn't required but here's an idea: You have a section on your page for problems of the week. The page that you turn in for your project in for a grade for this class will have links to all the problems (three or four might be enough for a start). When you actually go to use the site with your class, on the first week you only show the link to the first problem of the week. On the second week you show the link to the second problem of the week. This is easy to do because you can update/change a web page in a matter of minutes using "Publish." In this way all the problems of the week you plan to use can be written ahead of time, but made available to your students in a timely manner.

Extra Credit Opportunity

Find a newspaper article with rates in it. Type up two questions that go with the article. (Two questions that the reader might ask themselves.) Turn in the article and your questions. Three (3) points for each article turned in.
(For a given article, three students may turn in the article.)
Each student can earn up to 6 points of extra credit.

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updated March 30, 2001