| The
TSM
Resources CD was
published in Nov 2003 with ATM's 'Micromath' Magazine. These and new resources, will be available on the school's
Intranet.
 MONDAY
11th July 2005
10:30 Welcome
Reception
-----in the Great Hall Gardens
-----
-----[inside the Great Hall if wet]
Registration - Great Hall from 11:00
11:45 Introduction from
the Tutors
12:45 Drinks, lunch
14:00 Workshop Strand A (2 hrs)
16:00 Tea
16:30 Workshop Strand B (2 hrs)
18:45 Drinks and Dinner
20:30 Informal gathering
"Fibonacci
and Phi" by Ron Knott
followed by a lesson in Line Dancing!
TUESDAY 12th July 2005
07:00 Swimming Pool available
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Workshop Strand B (2 hrs)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Delegates' Forum
1st plenary session to exchange ideas
led by Chris Belsom, Head of Mathematics Ampleforth
College and member of Royal
Society's ACME.
12:45 Drinks, lunch
14:00 Open Workshops (2 hrs)
+ Interactive Whiteboard workshop
Michele Conway, Training Consultant
Harunobu Oyama, Tech. Manager
Cambridge Board/Starboard
Software
or time free to look around Oundle
16:00 Tea
16:30 Workshop Strand A (2 hrs)
18:45 Drinks, Dinner
20:30 Informal gathering
"Fun things for a maths lesson",
using a Promethean IWB, by David Benjamin, Norton
Knatchbull School
WEDNESDAY
13th July 2005
07:00 Swimming Pool available
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Workshop Strand A (2 hrs)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Delegates' Forum
2nd plenary to exchange ideas
led by Jane Imrie,
Manager, Teaching
and Learning Project (Mathematics) - DfES.
12:45 Drinks, Lunch
14:00 Workshop Strand B (2 hrs)
16:00 Tea and depart
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Delegates will
choose one workshop in each 6 hr strand to concentrate on,
but will be able to try others, or obtain further practice, in
the Open Workshop slot.
Those successfully completing the course will receive appropriate certification. |
STRAND A: Using MS OFFICE for Mathematics (6 hrs)
though all workshops will address general ICT issues and the creation
of lesson plans.
A1
- MS Word and The Internet for Mathematics [Douglas + Mike W]
Sorting out symbols, equations, diagrams in Word; using hyperlinks;
importing text, graphics, data from the Web, Excel
and Autograph
[Internet resources].
A2 - MS
Excel for beginners/intermediate uers [Karl
+ Kate]
How to get started with Excel, creating sequences, graphs and charts,
filling down, formulae and text. Simple simulations.
[Karl's home page]
A3 - MS Excel for intermediate users
[Sidney + Jean-Jacques]
Excel is a powerful and dynamic tool for investigating, demonstrating
and doing mathematics and basic statistics.
[Sidney's home page] [Sidney's Excel resources] [DISCUSS site]
A4 - MS
Excel for advanced users [Graeme + Mike
H + David]
Excel for setting up animations and simulations; extra tools,
slider bars, list/combo boxes; simple visual basic; sorting data.
This course will also offer an optional introduction to Visual Basic
Graeme Brown's NRICH page + Mike Hadden's Maths Files
A5 - Using
CAS (Computer Algebra Systems) [Marlene + Martin]
This course will introduce the multi-uses of CAS in the classroom, from
investigation work, to proof, and problem solving. The software DERIVE will be used, but delegates may also bring their hand-held CAS tools. Marlene's web site: CAS TIME
A6 - Autograph in
the classroom - [Alan + Alastair] 
Delegates will work on their laptops in a classroom with an Interactive
Whiteboard and a Tablet PC, discussing and trying out lesson plans.
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STRAND B: THE DYNAMIC CLASSROOM (6 hrs)
though
all workshops will address general ICT issues and the creation of lesson
plans
B1
- Autograph for beginners/intermediate [Alastair + Sidney]
B2 - Autograph for intermediate users [Alan + Graeme]
The principle
of object selection and the right-click menu; ideas
for dynamic lessons on straight lines, coordinate geometry, vectors, transformations,
graphs, scatter diagrams, histograms.
Lesson plans for KS3-4 and the GCSE Stats Project
Autograph on web: Home page - Resources - Data sets
B3 - Autograph
for AS / IB [Martin + Karl]
B4 - Autograph for A2 / IB [Mike
W + Marlene]
1D: Prob.distributions, hypothesis tests, histograms, central lim.
th.
2D: Graphs, functions, numerical methods, trigonometry; calculus,
----- coordinate geometry; bivariate data;
regression/residuals.
3D: lines, planes, vectors; surfaces
Autograph on web: Home page - Resources - Data sets
B5 -
Geometer's Sketchpad / Cabri Géomètre [Kate + J-J]
Dynamic geometry (Euclidean plane): constructions; scripts.
Applications to circle theorems, transformations; triangles and polygons;
recreational mathematics: fractals, tesselations
B6 - Autograph in the classroom - [Douglas + Karl]
Delegates will work on their laptops in a classroom with an Interactive Whiteboard and a Tablet PC, discussing and trying out lesson plans.
Labs: IT1 (24), IT2 (24), IT3 (16), S5 (12+ 8 Lap), Lang.Lab
(26)
Also Maths S9 (10 Laptops + IWB and Tablet)
Max: 120
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TUTORS:
GRAEME BROWN,
NRICH project, Cambridge
DOUGLAS BUTLER, Oundle
School, Peterborough
ALAN CATLEY, Tyne
Metropoitan College, Newcastle
ALASTAIR GEORGE, Dean
Close School, Cheltenham
MIKE HADDEN, freelance mathematical consultant, Hereford
JEAN-JACQUES DAHAN, IREM
et IAM, Toulouse,
France
KATE MACKRELL, freelance mathematical consultant, Canada
MARLENE TORRES-SKOUMAL, CAS-TIME (Vienna Int. School)
SIDNEY TYRRELL, Coventry
University (Math & Info Sciences)
KARL HAYWARD-BRADLEY, Oundle School, Peterborough
MARTIN WITHINGTON, Moreton Hall, Shropshire
MIKE WAKEFORD, Skagerak
International School, Norway
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Delegates are asked to come with ideas to share in the Delegates'
Forum. |
