Week 2 Developing MODERN mathematics (January 23-29) [Jan. 24, 2012, 8:40 a.m.]
The goal of this design task is to work some more on what we define as modern math. Next week, we will be pulling content and examples from this week's work towards a Wikipedia article, like this one but about math: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Skills
Here is what I suggest we do - as usual, please feel free to modify the task:
- Design or remix a mini-activity (1-15 minutes) centered on your content or process theme from last week. You can see all themes on a map here: http://mind42.com/pub/mindmap?mid=994691af-7ac0-42ac-b297-0279be4568fa or read stories here: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/ed218-developing-mathematics-the-early-years/sign-up/ For example, Kathy Cianciola may design something about number lines, and Sebastian Panakal about Vedic math.
- Design so that your activity is modern. Pick a time - 20 years for a conservative definition of "modern" or 3 months for "cutting edge modern." Then develop an activity that would not be possible or sustainable that time ago. Briefly explain why it would not be possible.
- Pick some math standards (the US has NCTM and Common Core for example) after you design the activity and briefly (a paragraph or so) reflect on how your activity follows, ignores or improves upon the standards.
- Post your activity here and/or on your blog or site (with a link here).
- Bonus: conduct the activity with your kid(s) and share how it went!
You can insert pictures, or videos and other media that goes with your task, right into your post (with attribution if someone else made it). For most media (like YouTube videos) the embed button only needs the url to insert the object.
