Cumulative Project
Due: Friday, 15-Nov
Objective: The point of this project is for you to follow a “strand” of problems through our text in an effort to reflect, revise, and create a reference before we move forward. When presenting a strand, it should be obvious what the specific kind of math is used for and how you use it productively.
Audience: The page you create should be a useful tool for yourself, but also for your classmates, for Math10 students, and for future students in this course. It’s also an opportunity to showcase your use of iPad technology and will likely be looked at by several Cate faculty.
The Project: Design a webpage that best demonstrates one of our mathematical content topics. You should use problems and solutions to explain what you have learned. Present these solutions in such a way that other students can understand and benefit from your strategies, moments of realization, and “take aways.”
The Details
Step 1: Create a log-in on weebly.com and join our site.
Step 2: Click on your topic page and begin adding content (to your page only).
Step 3: At the top of your page, write a brief mathography (a bio as it relates to your math experience. Post a welcome picture as well.)
Step 4: Use on-page text, images/solutions from your iPad, and other resources to present problems* that are intended to provide a pathway for students to follow a certain topic through our materials. Introduce and solve problems that showcase the development of specific concept.
Step 5: Midway through the project, include a peer review on 2 other pages (we will draw names). In the peer review, point out two things they did really well or you find really useful, then offer one piece of constructive criticism. [We will remove these before final publication.]
Step 6: Conclude your page with a written reflection. Explain your reasoning behind the choices you made while building the page, searching for information/problems, and using outside resources (one ex: why did you decide to include a picture of a graph instead of video of your graphing process?).
Problems*
Each page should include a minimum of 5 problems. Each topic comes with 2-3 required problems, and you must include those. However, you choose the other problems for your page and you may include more than 5 problems if you think they are valuable as part of the presentation. Each problem being presented should introduced with an explanation about why you chose to use this problem and it should conclude with a sentence or two explaining what you learned about your topics and what others should take away from your process, both in terms of content knowledge and strategies for solving.
Here are the requirements for problem choice:
– Choose problems that provide multiple entry points for readers trying to understand your topic.
– Choose problems that build into your required problem presentation.
– You must choose 1 problem that is listed on PS25 or later (look into the future!).
– You may write and solve your own problems.
– You may find and solve problems from outside of our text (very important that you cite your sources if you do this).