At P2PU, people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.
This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
The goal of the course is to assemble a toolkit for helping young children develop mathematically.
The course is offered for credit at Arcadia University and for P2PU School of Math Future completion certificate to anyone in the world (open and free). Overarching themes:
Personally meaningful and relevant mathematics achieved through projects, games, problem-posing and problem-solving.
Computer-based mathematics, including interactive simulations, modeling tools, solvers, and children programming platforms.
Lifelong learning for teachers, with the focus of online communities and networks for teacher support, and building your personal learning networks
posted message: I summarized participation data I have, up to now, here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqenMfoYXJb3dF9vcG0waTdiVGN0M2VVdjZuY1NoOHc
If I missed something, please let me know privately.
I will be doing several summaries next week, which won't be tasks (just my summaries of course activities). Tomorrow, I will post a task inviting you to share math celebration ideas, which will be a bonus task.
It has been an interesting journey for me, for sure! So many things I learned... For example, the original syllabus had about 5% overlap with people's interests and had to be reworked. Computer-based vs. computer-delivered math makes no sense to people as categories. Being an evil overlord is fun, theoretically at least.
Rock on!
posted message: We have an email group and we are not afraid to use it! If you have not done so yet, please join the group at http://groups.google.com/group/ed218arcadia/subscribe
We will use the email group more actively in the next few weeks. Today's discussion has to do with this week's topic: http://groups.google.com/group/ed218arcadia/browse_thread/thread/3d83f6a3ddf8b6b8#
posted message: Out of 38 participants of the course, more than a quarter have blogs or frequently updated sites, that I know. We are awesome like this!
Did I miss your blog? Please add to the list!
http://blogs.arcadia.edu/studyabroad/category/honors-program/laura-haeberle-14/
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/
http://collabware.wordpress.com/
http://davidwees.com/discuss
http://hyperbolicguitars.blogspot.com/
http://letsplaymath.net/
http://mathfour.com/
http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/
http://sebastianpanaka.tigblog.org/
http://www.artofinquiry.net/
http://www.cut-the-knot.org
http://www.naturalmath.com/blog/
posted message: I am not sure if this is the right place to post our Prezi's but here is mine
http://prezi.com/rknpmccpmr_v/copy-of-how-can-we-measure-teaching-and-learning-in-mathematics/
I chose this one because it related to my one blog this week about testing in classrooms, specifically in math. Although not everything in this video is something I agree with, I think it brings up good points and makes me rethink the way we assess students and gage knowledge.
posted message: P2PU site will be down Saturday and Sunday 3-6pm Eastern Time, for maintenance.
LIGHT FRIDAY, 2-minute versions of week tasks, is up: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/ed218-developing-mathematics-the-early-years/content/week-2-light-friday/
Vote on the best meeting time here: http://www.doodle.com/uevs5ndhi8g5xcws
Have a great weekend!
posted message: Here are some nice recent resources:
S.Krantz on mathematical maturity: http://www.math.wustl.edu/~sk/mature.pdf
John Mason on the role of surprise in math thinking : http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Mathematically-J-Mason/dp/0201102382
posted message: ED218 Daily is the email summary of what's going on. To receive it, join the email group at http://groups.google.com/group/ed218arcadia
posted message: Here's the list of folks I count so far, along with their kids:
Bon, 2yo daughter
Dinesh, 3.5yo child
David, son
Sandy, daughter & son
Sebastian
April, 3 sons
Keisha
Michael
Julia, 3 children
Carolyn L.
ajc1696, 14yo daughter
Carolyn
Mike T., 6yo daughter