GCCTM Newsletter
February 2014
Creating Fibonnaci Valentines via Cwist
Things You Need:
construction paper, scissors, glue, pencil, ruler
Things to do: (see INSTRUCTIONS HERE)
Are you ready to learn about Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio? The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … can you figure out the next number? Here's a hint: each number is the sum of the two numbers before it. These numbers occur in music, nature and art - in the form of the golden ratio! Check out these videos to see the Fibonacci numbers in the golden ratio.
Send a Math Valentine
SAVE THE DATE: STEM SATURDAY
*Registration can be paid at the door on day of event.
GCCTM Super STEM Saturday
Elementary, Middle & High Sessions for Math Teachers
Registration fees
(includes lunch for middle & high teachers and snacks & TI-15 for elementary teachers)
- Members $10
- Non-members $15
Professional Development Points available for all sessions - TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY!
Saturday, Feb 22, 2014, 09:00 AM
Eastside High School 1300 Brushy Creek Road Taylors SC
How to Learn Math 2014
At the end of the course, 93% of participants said they were “very” or “extremely” satisfied and 95% said they would change their teaching or ways of helping children as a result. The teachers came equally from elementary, middle and high school grades. At the end of the course many teachers said they particularly appreciated the number of practical methods they had learned and that could immediately use in classrooms. Many teachers and parents described the course as “life changing.”
The course is now being re-released, ... click below for more
Conceptions and Misconceptions About Graphs via Desmos Blog
We know it’s important for students to connect different representations of relationships together – linking a table of values to its graph and its algebraic representations, for example. Representing and interpreting relationships between variables is an important skill even for students who do not study math beyond high school. Of all possible ways to represent these relationships, Team Desmos is partial to graphs.
But students struggle with graphs in several ways. We have seen that students struggle with rate, and how rates are represented in graphs. In 1938, an editorial might have argued the economy was in terrible shape because United States unemployment was 17% that year. Another might have argued that the situation was getting better because yes, unemployment was high, but its rate of change was negative.
https://class.desmos.com/carnivalGCCTM Spring Banquet April 29
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GCCTM Officers
President, Patty Rhoney
Past President, Valerie Muller
President-Elect, Linda Manley
Vice-President Primary, Faith Deaver
Vice-President 3-5, Sara Awtrey
Vice-President Middle School, Jackie Waddell
Vice-President High School, Jennifer Southers
Secretary, Gay Durham
Treasurer, Sara Beth Kripinski
Newsletter, Chris Beyerle
NCTM Representative, Daniel Wilkie
Advisors, Rita Bixler and Cathy Hale
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