The University of Illinois at Chicago invites you and your CPS colleagues to the:

Fall 2006 CPS-UIC Math Forum

(an expansion of the former Algebra Symposium)

November 30, 2006 CPS-UIC Math Forum
4:30 to 7:30 PM
2nd Floor Taft Hall

We will continue giving teachers a chance to interact and share experiences with one another around a common theme related to high school math teaching. Come as a group for some departmental team-building. There are stipends and CPDU credits. Sign up as noted below to reserve your space for Thurs., Nov 30. We will have two workshop sessions - one based on classroom problems which the audience brings up, the other a "Déjà vu" of some past Forum activities.

4:30 Sign-in, beverages, networking

4:45 Welcome, Brainstorming Troublesome Situations in Math Classes (for example: minus vs. negative, rules which stop being true in later classes); Open Discussion on methods for dealing with those situations

5:55 Giordano's pizza

6:30 Various workshops - bring copies of final exams or other pertinent math assessments; we'll re-run three of our past workshops

7:15 Wrap-up, survey, parking stickers and forms; selection of Spring dates

Anatoly Libgober (libgober@uic.edu) and John Masley (jmmasley@uic.edu) welcome your suggestions for topics.

$56 stipend and 3 CPDU credits
Dinner and Parking Included (across Halsted from SEL)
Taft hall (TH) is located on the campus of UIC
826 S. Halsted Ave., Chicago, IL

Parking is available at the Halsted and Taylor street parking structure

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To reserve your space at the November 27th forum, either:

send an email to John Conta at jconta1@math.uic.edu with "November 30th" in the subject field, or

Use the online form.