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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

Daily email: 

http://groups.google.com/group/ed218arcadia

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  • early development
  • early learning
  • education
  • math
  • math education
  • math future
  • mathematics
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  • School of the Mathematical Future

    MATHEMATICAL FUTURE
  • Runs Jan. 17, 2012 to May 8, 2012
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Maria Droujkova (organizer) Bon Crowder (participant) SandyG (participant) David Wees (participant) Sebastian Panakal (participant) April H. (participant) Julia Brodsky (participant) michael (participant) Keisha (participant) ajc1696 (participant) Carolyn Lesser (participant) Carolyn (participant) Denise (participant) Laura Haeberle (participant) Kathy Cianciola (participant) pachecomg (participant) AliQ (participant) CaseyKel (participant) Ben (participant) SydneyJones (participant) Susan Weiss (participant) Ivyseeker95 (participant) yovan (participant) AlexB (follower) Thieme Hennis (follower) richard (follower) Dan (follower) mcnamara_tim (follower) Steve L (follower) PoopZemli (follower) rajesh pillai (follower) Tis_I (follower) Jordan (follower) Brandon (follower) dcorking (follower) MrSteve (follower) Angie Urban (follower) Stefan (follower) Pato_Acevedo (follower) Gayle (follower) Hussameldin (follower) Sebastián (follower) markovchaney (follower) Prasanna Acharya (follower) lisa (follower) Eunice (follower) xzorzist (follower) bharati singh (follower) nicolas (follower) MarkM (follower) Colin Chambers (follower) Eleni (follower) Sofia (follower) Vani Tuisavura (follower) KJ (follower) isynergize (follower) cybercomic (follower) Melissa Mcg (follower) Tebitta Solomon (follower) Ragpickr (follower) Alan Yee (follower) K PAVAN (follower) Diego Alejandro Fonseca Gutierrez (follower) KatieH (follower)

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  • Meta bonus: class participation
  • Week 14 Summary: learning about yourself (April 16-22)
  • Week 14 Summary: past and future networking (April 16-22)
  • Week 14 Assessment (April 16-22)
  • Week 13 Summary: New ideas (April 9 - 15)
  • Week 13 Networking options (April 9 - 15)
  • Week 13 Problem-solving (April 9 - 15)
  • Week 12 Networking options (April 2 - 8)
  • Week 12 Interactive geometry (April 2 - 8)
  • Week 11 Math anxiety & the Supreme Ruler (March 26 - April 1)
  • Week 11 Networking options (March 26 - April 1)
  • Week 10 Computer-based vs. computer-delivered (March 19-25)
  • Week 10 Networking options (March 19-25)
  • Week 10 Number sense and scale sense (March 19-25)
  • Week 9 What character do YOU play? (Bonus)
  • Week 8 Our OERs, revisited (March 5 - 11)
  • Week 8 Open Education Week: two live events (March 5 - 11)
  • Week 7: Digital storytelling (February 27 - March 4)
  • Week 7: Intrinsically mathematical stories (February 27 - March 4)
  • Week 6 Live networking (February 20-26)
  • Week 6 Say, say, oh playmate... ( February 20-26)
  • Week 6 Scratch: The missing manual ( February 20-26)
  • Week 5: Blogosphere and multiplication (February 13-19)
  • Week 5 Scratch from MIT (February 13-19)
  • Week 5 Live meeting OR video comments (February 13-19)
  • Week 4 Live meetings! (February 6 - 12)
  • Week 4 "Patterns don't go anywhere?" (February 6 - 12)
  • Week 4 Wikipedians, reloaded (February 6 - 12)
  • Week 3: Arts, math & many answers (January 30 - February 5)
  • Week 3 Wikipedians (January 30 - February 5)
  • Week 3 Live meeting! (January 30 - February 5)
  • Week 2 LIGHT FRIDAY
  • Week 2 Carnival of themes (January 23-29)
  • Week 2 Developing MODERN mathematics (January 23-29)
  • Week 2 Live meeting (January 23-29)
  • Week 2 Crowd-sourced syllabus (bonus, January 23-29)
  • Week 1 Sign-up task (January 17-22)
  • Week 1 Q&A bonus task (January 17-22)

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    Maria Droujkova
    Maria Droujkova at ED218 Developing mathematics: The early years
    added Week 13 Problem-solving (April 9 - 15).
    11 Apr 2012 via courses.p2pu.org
    2 Comments

    Comments


  • SandyG   April 11, 2012, 9:24 a.m.

    I don't understand 1 & 2 of this task.  Can you offer some guidance or point me in a direction where I can read more about the topic?

  • Maria Droujkova   April 11, 2012, 9:41 a.m.
    In Reply To:   SandyG   April 11, 2012, 9:24 a.m.

    Sandy, I added a comment to the task - hope it helps!


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