Week+7

=Week 7: Suffer Math Gladly=

toc The topic of this week is organizing the flow of math learning experiences, recognizing and acknowledging the inherent challenges of different types of mathematical activities, addressing math anxiety and building math communities.

Truchet Tiles room from Xah Lee's [|"Math in Second Life" collection]. The two anthropomorphic cats are avatars of visitors.


 * The objectives** of Week 7 are:
 * To apply measures for reducing math anxiety to your activity design
 * To reflect on values comprising "math sophistication"
 * To summarize community activities to take to students
 * To celebrate the successful completion of the course!

Audio Introduction
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The class live meetings happen three times a week, one of them required, the other two recommended for doing weekly tasks together. During these times, we will meet [|in Wimba virtual room]. You are welcome to invite colleagues and friends to this open room, if they are interested in participating. You can also use the room for class collaboration outside of these hours.


 * Monday 7-8pm** community study and Q&A hour
 * Wednesday 8-9pm** weekly class discussion
 * Friday 8-9am** community study and Q&A hour

There are five required tasks and three make-up tasks this week.

The main technology tools this week are screencasts, blogs, email groups, live webinars, online videos and wikis.

Musical Interlude
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Task Grids
. Find a reference on the subject of math anxiety. Leave comments on the three tasks someone in this course designed for the three subjects during weeks three through five. In your comments, suggest steps that will help prevent or cure anxiety in students and/or teachers. Tie steps to the particulars of the task. You can focus on task design and/or assessment in your comments. You can leave comments as text, or make screencasts. || **7-2** Page 4 of the paper about assessing pre-service teachers, which applies to students as well, has a list of math values that together define "mathematical sophistication." Leave comments on the three tasks someone designed for the three subjects during weeks three through five. In your comments, explain how tasks can promote these math values, adding twists or ideas to the tasks so they can promote the values better. You can focus on task design and/or student assessment in your comments. You can use your blog or make a screencast.
 * || **7-1**

PDF of the paper:

Reference: J. Szydlik, E. Kuennen, and C. Seaman, “Development of an Instrument to Measure Mathematical Sophistication,” in //Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Proceedings//, 2009. || Week 3 [] [] || [] [] [] ||
 * GraceA || []
 * MariaD ||  ||   ||
 * KateG || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/student-task-on-linearity/#comment-16

http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/symmetry-2/#comment-21

http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/probability-lesson-plan/#comment-17 || http://semhouston1.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/student-task-focused-on-linearity/#comment-23

http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/student-task-on-symmetry/#comment-18

http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/design-a-task-centered-on-data-visualization/#comment-20 || __Comment 2__- http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/mathflo-sat-814/#comment-17 __Comment 3__- http://gailly123.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/creating-task-triangles/#comment-18 || __Comment 1-__ http://semhouston1.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/student-task-focused-on-data-visualization-scatter-plot-basketball/#comment-24 __Comment 2-__ http://snyderdoug.blogspot.com/2010/08/probability-student-task.htm __Comment 3-__ http://peterhorn33.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/4-3-online-lesson-plan/#comment-29 || [|Week 4 Comments and suggestions] [|Week 5 Comments and suggestions] || [|Week 3 comments and suggestions] [|Week 4 comments and suggestions] [|Week 5 comments and suggestions] || [] || [|Comment on Bobbo's Blog] || [|Comments on Amy's Blog] || . Write your "highlights and low points" reflection about the course. What things will make the largest impact on your teaching? Which tasks should we keep and develop in the future? Which tasks bombed and should quietly go away? What advice can you give to future students and professors who do this course? || **Make-up tasks (optional)** These will count as a task, to replace any one you miss during the course for grade counting. You can define and do up to three substantial (about an hour of work) tasks for yourself, or do those defined here by other students. The tasks defined here will be offered to future students of this course as an option. || k || [|http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow/ ‎] ||  ||
 * aheleniak || __Comment 1__- http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/misleading-graphs/#comment-14
 * Peterhorn33 || [|Week 3 Comments and suggestions]
 * EthanL || http://wp.me/PZtr1-3d || http://wp.me/PZtr1-3d ||
 * Paul McDowell ||  ||   ||
 * Sam Morrison || [], [], [] || [], [], [] ||
 * GRice || []/ || []
 * Doug Snyder || [|Doug's Diatribe on Math-a-Phobia] and
 * RStock || comments and suggestions posted at http://snyderdoug.blogspot.com/2010 || comments posted at [] ||
 * Al_J_Williams || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/math-anxiety/ || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/math-sophistication-values/ ||
 * || **7-3**
 * GraceA || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/course-highlights/ ||  ||
 * MariaD ||  || Example. Apply the idea of [|Flow Channels] to my work with students within Math Clubs: link. ||
 * KateG || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/highlights-and-low-points/ ||  ||
 * aheleniak || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/highlights-of-the-course/ ||  ||
 * Peterhorn33 || http://wp.me/pZvA3-1y ||  ||
 * EthanL || http://wp.me/PZtr1-3g ||  ||
 * Paul McDowell ||  || (Extra credit task ~15hours - counts as three tasks - MD) [|Prezi summary of Teaching Practices] ||
 * Sam Morrison || [] ||  ||
 * GRice || [] ||  ||
 * Doug Snyder || [|A Parting Shot at ED526B] ||  ||
 * RStoc
 * Al_J_Williams || [] ||  ||

Attend the live class meeting on Wednesday.
 * || **7-4**

End-of-course party! You are invited!//



Image credits: [|Pi Pie],[| Fractal fireworks], [|Klein bottle opener] || **7-5** Attend one or more of the following live events happening online this week. Follow links for instructions on how to use platforms. You can add other events to this list. They must be free, open to everybody, and recorded.

Say what alias you used to participate, if it's not your name. **Contribute something during the meeting - a question, comments in chat, references.**

Briefly reflect on the event in your blog. Constructive criticism is especially helpful for event organizers. The blog post needs to link to the event's page.

MariaD will add events on Sunday - many of them are only announced a few days ahead of time.


 * Math ed events:**
 * #mathchat Thursday 7:30pm


 * General ed events:**
 * [|"It takes a village"] Australian series 7:30am Friday
 * [|Edublogs fine focus]Thursday 7pm
 * **[|Connectivism and George Siemens] Tuesday 8pm - recommended - MariaD**
 * [|eduTecher at Classroom 2.0] Saturday noon
 * [|Diversity of thinking styles], at Caribbean Educator Network Saturday 10pm
 * [|Global project-based learning: Geography] at TappedIn Thursday 9pm

http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/new-vision-for-math/ || edutecher-com / ||
 * Sources of events**
 * http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events
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 * #mathchat
 * [|Wolfram Education]
 * [|#edchat]
 * [|EdWeek] ||
 * GraceA || Attend Wednesday and do a symmetrical waltz || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/future-of-education
 * MariaD ||  ||   ||
 * KateG || attended Wednesday - thanks Maria! ||  ||
 * aheleniak || attended the "end-of-course" party on Wed =) || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/dan-meyer-a-new-vision-for-math-curriculum-reform/ ||
 * Peterhorn33 || Wed. || http://wp.me/pZvA3-1B ||
 * EthanL || Mon., Will listen to Wed. on archive || http://wp.me/PZtr1-3n ||
 * Paul McDowell ||  ||   ||
 * Sam Morrison || attended Monday, only Ethan and Gail were present. Will party on Wed. I'll bring a virtual case of beer. || [] ||
 * GRice || Attended Monday and Wednesday. || [] ||
 * Doug Snyder || Attended Wednesday. I'll take a root beer, Sam :-) || [|An Evening with Dan Meyer] ||
 * RStock || Partied like a rock star Wednesday! || http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/
 * Al_J_Williams || Attended Wednesday || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/pln-tools-see-end-use-of-cell-phones-in-schools/ ||

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Bonus Movie!
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