When we met this week, someone mentioned that we do not yet have a clear idea what should be in the portfolios that we will have the students develop. Let's start the discussion now (with ablog of course)
As a fisrt thought, the students should have for each year these things:
1) one of their finest homework assignments
2) one of their best quizzes or tests
3) a discovery activity or "math lab" investigation (example: exploration of y = A sin (bx) family of functions in 11th grade)
4) a project in which they have applied mathematics as a model; this should include some significant mathematics
5) a clear proof written by the student of a math topic related to his / her current grade level
OR a short paper on a math history topic related to that year's topics
Okay, that should get us started. Reactions? Other ideas?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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