MTE 483 – Spring 2008
Mathematics in
the
Secondary School
| Date Due | Assignment |
| Thursday, January 17 |
Carefully read
the Syllabus. |
| Tuesday, January 22 |
Homework 1 |
| Tuesday, January 29 |
Homework 2 |
| Tuesday, February 5 |
Read the article Learning
to Think Mathematically: Problem Solving, Metacognition, and Sense
Making in Mathematics by Alan Schoenfeld. Respond to the questions in Homework 3. |
| Tuesday, February 12 |
Homework 4 |
| Thursday, February 14 |
Extra
Credit. Submit your explanation written on a single piece of paper
with your name at the top followed by a brief statement that you did
not consult anyone else on this problem. Also, explain how this
illustrates a need to rigorously justify a given solution to Problem 1
in Homework 2. |
| Tuesday, February 19 |
Homework 5 |
| Tuesday,
February 26 |
Homework
6 |
| Tuesday, March 4 |
Homework
7 |
| Tuesday, March 18 |
Homework
8 |
| Tuesday, March 25 |
Homework
9 Homework 9 Follow-Up |
| Tuesday, April 1 |
Homework
10 |
| Tuesday, April 8 |
Homework
11 |
| Tuesday, April 15 |
Read the Paul Lockhart Essay.
This should evoke some significant response. You choose the way that
you feel most compelled to respond (e.g., by writing your own essay, by
working and extending the problems Lockhart uses as examples or
creating and exploring your own, by interviewing students,
administrators and teachers about the ideas in the essay, by proposing
small or large ways to engage students in the kind of reasoning
described by Lockhart, etc.). Since this is 10% of your grade, however
you choose to respond, be sure to show you have taken it seriously and
learned something for yourself during the process. |
| Tuesday, April 22 |
Homework 12 |
| Tuesday, April 29 |
Homework 13 |
