NSF MSP Wishlist
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This page is for the participants of the NSF MSP project of Florida Atlantic University and Broward County Schools. Please add your ideas and wishes for the Spring 2007 classes of the project on this page.
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GeoGebra Class
- I would like to learn more about specific commands in GeoGebra. I'd like to continue working on Wiki and developing the GeoGebra page in English.
Victoria
Class Interaction
Wishlist for Spring Semester on what I would like to learn:
• Using GeoGebra and other tools that will provide activities that engage the visual, audible, and kinesthetic learning styles of middle school students. For example provide GeoGebra dynamic worksheets for student activities, so they can understand Geometry with kinesthetic examples and activities- triangle congruencies or other theorems, postulates, or corollaries. Provide ways with GeoGebra and other tools to address all student learning styles- including kinesthetic, visual and audible- which of coarse is up to the lesson and how the teacher presents.
• Develop strategies that will engage middle school students in both group and individual activities using GeoGebra and other tools. These strategies will use GeoGebra and other tools to supplement textbooks for interactive activities and exercises incorporated into lesson plans. For examples with a falling body problem, provide a example of a parabola and how it applies with a falling body- look at the start, vertex, a coefficient (opens down, not up- so negative).
• Using GeoGebra and other tools for creating effective classwork, homework, quiz and test exercises that can be incorporated as part of student assessments. The results of these exercises would be integrated into Pinnacle grade recorder application for student assessment and grades. The output of these GeoGebra based assessments would be formatted in a way that could be readily incorporated into a database. So provide an alternative to traditional assessments- this could be constructing a triangle and demonstrating with this construction what the centroid of a triangle is.
• Using GeoGebra with other tools to captivate, interest, and provide another alternative approach to enhance middle school education. So when other approaches are not enough to enhance or motivate students, I want to learn how I can augment the lesson with GeoGebra to provide the best learning environment for our middle school Math students. For example with GeoGebra provide another view according to NCTM practices, so students who “don’t get it”, will. So when students are struggling with understanding the concepts of slope- using GeoGebra to demonstrate, illustrate, and change/modify slope is more apparent and readily understandable through doing with GeoGebra.
Norm Ebsary
I'm trying to be specific. It would be easier to show, but I'll try to explain...
- I'd like to learn how to make online evaluation tools. For example, a student is given a quadratic equation in vertex form, the graph of a parabola, and a slider for a. The student would then adjust the graph to match the equation. Then would be told if the answer is correct and click for a new one. The student would continue to practice this skill until mastery (desired percent correct) is achieved. I'd like to be able to do the same thing for linear equations.
- Randomly generated problems involving operations with rationals, and reinforcement at every step. For example, for addition, first enter the common denominator...correct! Next, enter the numerators for the equivalent fractions...correct! Now find the sum of the numerators...correct! The answer is...correct!
- I'd like to know how to split an object into congruent pieces using a slider. Move the slider to 3 to break the strip up into 3 congruent pieces...move it to four, for four congruent pieces, etc. I'd like to use this to do some visualization of fractions.
- I'd like to create tools to make solving equations more visual. Either by using graphs or manipulatives, like shapes that could be moved from one side to the other.
Megan
Wishlist
- I would like to learn more of the MSP math that Voss and Pietgen have been teaching us. We could use GeoGebra to help with these topics. I think it would cause more growth in both content and GeoGebra use. As great as GeoGebra is, it is still only a tool that should be used to help us learn and teach our subject. As we grow in our understanding of the subject matter we will naturally develope more uses for the software. I also want to be able to take what we learn and produce something tangable for us and others to use online.
Lewis
Knote
- I wish that we could integrate this system into a program called springboard
- I wish that we could make a system of worksheets to go along with each of the lessons in middle school math this would be nice to give to classroom teachers.
-On a website called beep teachers have compiled a list of lesson plans we could take as many of those lessons as possible and write dynmic worksheet to support the lesson.
- I also wish that we could take specific topics and develope them but make sure to choos e different topics in a first come first serve basis this way there is no overlaping.
Wish List
A content rich, challenging "Problem of The Day" to be solved by hand, together, and with the help of Geogebra would be nice on a regular basis. Through the solution of such a problem, a new concept in conjunction with a Geogebra skill could be introduced, explored, and practiced. Content should not be limited to middle school curriculum for these warm-ups as it is a goal of this grant to have its middle school teachers certified through 12th grade mathematics.
I also wish we had class in a nice clean college environment. Not in a filthy dirty middle school like Nova Middle. However,I am grateful to LP for housing us.
Duke
Wish List
I would like to work on more curriculum in class. I would like to discuss different ideas for dynamic worksheets and how to incorporate GeoGebra effectively and correctly into the classroom. Dynamic worksheets are great, however, I find that for some dynamic worksheets to be more effective there has to be some sort of background knowledge given to the students. Writing lessons that go along with dynamic worksheets may be an idea for next semester also. I would also like to see some advanced uses of GeoGebra in the subjects of Trigonometry and Calculus, etc...
Guy
Wish List
I would like to learn the following about Geogebra:
- if/then statements
- tricks and shortcuts that would make our worksheets more "dynamic"
- ways to make the worksheets more attractive (colorful)
- ways to show equations and how to solve them in a worksheet
I would like to work more on making worksheets that go along with the middle and highschool curriculum.
I would like more content incorporated into the class (not just content for the worksheets we're creating, but new content for us to learn)
Athena Matherly
Wish List
I would like to continue to learn the details of the commands in GeoGebra and how to use them creatively in order to make worksheets and figures more dynamic. The If/Then statement that we learned is very powerful and useful. I learned a great deal from the lesson on vector arithmetic and wish that we could be shown more content such as that in the future.
I also wish to work on developing actual classroom lessons that incorporate GeoGebra figures. These lessons would serve as examples for other teachers, new to teaching with dynamic software, on how to use the software and figures to teach Algebra and Geometry.
""Jon""
