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Session 1
Exploring Internet Resources for Mathematical Problem Solving
Software: Internet tools
& Applets
October
12th, 2005
The purpose of today's workshop is to help you better understand how
the Internet can help in teaching and learning mathematics through
problem solving.
Part 1 - Overview of the TIME workshop series
Part 2 - Examples of Internet based problem explorations
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Road Sign & Bus
Problem
What's the problem with Word
problems? At the heart of the problem is a very simple, yet powerful
idea: making sense.
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Birthday
Problem
How many people do you need in a room for there to
be a better than 50% chance that at least 2 people will share the same
birthday?
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Are you the average
traveler today?
Today
we are going to find out who traveled the average distance to get to
this workshop. First we'll start off with a guess. What do you think is
the average distance that the members of this group traveled today?
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The
Pizza Server
The electronic version. Find out what the server is
charging for its pizza. Come up with a price function that will help
you to figure out the cost in advance.
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Traffic Jam
Software: Java Applet
Figure out how to stay out a jam and solve the puzzle in the minimum
number of moves. Then come up with a rule that will predict
outcomes for any number of frogs wanting to go across.
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Great Green Globs Contest
Software:
Green Globs and Graphing Equations
What is the highest score you can get for this array of Globs? You will
need to sharpen your slope and y-intercept detection skills.
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Mind
Reader
Click on the Flash button and then choose
Flash
Mind Reader. Can you explain how this works?
Interactive
Mathematics - Virtual manipulative Library
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
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