C & I 330MS

SPRING 1997

Instructor: George Reese
Office: 341 Armory
Office Hours: Monday 9-12am or by appointment
Office Phone: 333-2605
Home Phone384-0428

Texts: Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics
Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades5-8,NCTM, 1989.

Course Goals: The goals of this course are to help you...

Understand mathematics content and processes.

Explore a variety of motivational, instructional, and organizational techniques for use in middle school mathematics

Apply the NCTM standards in creating teaching plans.

Become familiar with the network technologies that are transforming all aspects of the workplace.

Explore ways to incorporate these technologies into the middle school mathematics classroom..

Grading Policy: Your final grade will be determined by your performance on the following assessment measures. The percentages indicate the weight given to each assessment:

Unit plan		     20%
Homework		     10%
Class participation* 	     15%
Mid-term	 	     15%
Final Exam		     20%
Journal		 	     10%
Home page		     10%

*Participation includes attending class, making presentations and participating in discussions. All students are expected to attend all classes. Notify me in advance of any expected absence.

Important URLs

Our class has a home page on the Web. The URL is http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/courses/ci330ms/. This page will have course updates, the syllabus, and assignment information.

In addition, the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (MSTE) has a home page at .

The MSTE home page has a database of network-based mathematics lessons and links to other mathematics education resources.

Unit Plan Contents
The unit should use technology in some way. The Addenda Series [National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1995 #7] provide an excellent set of sample activities from which to get ideas.

Introduction: including table of contents, list of NCTM standards applied
Unit Objectives:
Complete Daily Lesson Plans:
Assessments*.
Bibliography: Be sure to list the resources you used in putting together your unit. These should include both print and Internet resources

*Daily lesson plans and Assessments should apecify how they correspond with the unit objectives.

Lesson Plans

You may use whatever style of lesson planning you wish, but the lesson plans should include the following:

Prequisite information: What are you assuming that students already know?

Objectives: What do you want the students to learn?

Teaching Strategies: A list of the strategies you will take in presenting this lesson.

Anticipatory set: some warm-up activity or "hook"; to prepare the students for what is coming

Materials needed to teach the lesson.

Procedure: A description of the activities you will use.

Assessment: These should line up with the objectives.

Enrichment activities

Journal

I expect you to keep an electronic notebook with one entry each week. The notebook should contain your reflections on teaching and learning mathematics. I am especially interested in your reflections on using networking technology in this course. Please date your entries.

Personal Home Page

Early in the course we will begin to construct home pages. Your home page should contain:

Personal information: Including your name and contact information.

List of links to Web sites related to your unit (minimum of 5).

A description of your unit and contact information if your unit is not on the Web.

List of mathematics resources (minimum of 5).

List of middle school resources (minimum of 5). Examples of such resources are organizational Web pages that contain information relevant to middle schools like the National Middle School Association home page or exemplary school home pages like the Ralph Bunche School in New York.

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