The University of Illinois at Chicago invites you and your CPS colleagues to the:
Spring 2006 CPS-UIC Math Forum
(an expansion of the former Algebra Symposium)
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Interact with you fellow teachers and share experiences of developing challenging mathematics programs for all students. How do we obtain both deep understanding and computational fluency? Please save March 2nd for the next independent workshop. Come as a group for some departmental team-building. There are stipends and CPDU credits. Sign up as noted below to reserve your slot for:
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Consider a scatter plot of Fuel Economy (mi/gal) versus Speed (mi/hr) based on the data:
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| Miles/Hour | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 70 |
| Miles/Gallon | 22.3 | 25.5 | 27.5 | 29.0 | 28.8 | 30.0 | 29.9 | 30.2 | 30.4 | 28.8 | 27.4 | 25.3 |
| What would you currently do in a classroom with your students to analyze this data? What results would you want them to take away from this chart? What math model would you use to hammer home those results? What technology would help? |
| What are the conflicts between short term and long term goals for student learning and future success with regard to technology use in the classroom? What ideas should govern classroom discussion on how well a model "fits" a real life situation? Come find out what your fellow teachers think and how they've approached modeling and curve-fitting. You may want to bring your favorite graphing calculator and refresh your memory on regression and "R Squared". See, for example, Prof. Terry Turner's notes on linear regression analysis using the TI-83. Also see the notes by Prof. Lewis regarding modeling in an optimization problem context.
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To reserve your space at the March 2nd forum, either:
send an email to astrim1@uic.edu with "Mar 2" in the subject field
Click here to RSVP via our online form
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Check back often for the next independent workshop. |
