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631 What’s the Big Idea? Connecting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (3–5) Gallery Workshop The presenter’s hands-on gallery workshop will show participants how to use manipulatives and pictorial representations to acquire strategies that can be used to help students understand the “big ideas” about fractions, decimals, and percents and how the three are all interconnected.
634 Surface Area and Volume: Help! I Can’t Memorize All These Formulas (3–8, Preservice and In-Service) Gallery Workshop Participants will actively engage in hands-on activities using tape measures, square tiles, cubic units, and even sand in order to develop a conceptual understanding of perimeter, area, and volume formulas. These activities will begin with rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, and circles and will end with prisms and pyramids. Joy W. Darley Georgia Southern University, Statesboro
Carolyn Doyle Richmond City Public Schools, Virginia San Diego Ballroom A (Marriott)
632 Using Music Composition to Teach Math (3–5, Preservice and In-Service) Gallery Workshop Color bars will be used to represent music scales, and the numbers of bars to represent notes’ durations. Combinations of color bars will be used to represent chords. Based on a typical pop music chord sequence, students will compose music by choosing colors. Statistics tables and graphs will be created based on students’ composition notes. Song An Texas A&M University, College Station Shuhua An California State University, Long Beach Salon 6 (Marriott)
633 Rational Number Project: Fraction Operations and Initial Decimal Ideas (3–8) Gallery Workshop Latest curriculum project from the NSF-funded Rational Number Project (RNP) will be shared. Twenty-eight lessons are available at no cost on the RNP Web site. The presentation provides participants opportunity to explore sample lessons, view video clips of actual lessons, and analyze students’ work. Terry Wyberg University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Kathleen Cramer University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Seth Leavitt Minneapolis Public Schools, Minnesota Elizabeth Ballroom B (Hyatt)
Barbara B. Leapard Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 17 A (Convention Center)
635 ABC’s of Problem Solving: An Approach to Building Mathematical Knowledge (3–8, Preservice and In-Service) Gallery Workshop Experience an approach to problem solving that builds knowledge and confidence in grades K–12 students and preservice teachers alike, and share in the the joys, frustrations, breakthroughs, and growth of attempting, solving, and presenting problems. Materials and an overview of a preservice capstone course based on this model will be provided. Janet Nichols Colorado State University—Pueblo
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Janet Heine Barnett Colorado State University—Pueblo Marina D (Marriott)
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636 Math Nights That Work (6–8) Gallery Workshop Learn the secrets to success in planning and implementing math activity nights at your school. You should be prepared to participate in actual math night activities, including a warmup, a group game, and a featured activity. You will leave with a CD full of activities you can use or modify. Elizabeth Warren Estacada Junior High School, Oregon Sally Wood Estacada Junior High School, Oregon Julie Norrander Estacada Junior High School, Oregon 9 (Convention Center)
April 21–24, 2010 • San Diego, California 137
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