The University of Illinois at Chicago invites you and your CPS colleagues to the:
Spring 2007 CPS-UIC Math Forum
(an expansion of the former Algebra Symposium)
Mar 8 (Second Thursday)
4:30 to 7:30 PM
2nd Floor Taft Hall
Interact with your fellow teachers and share experiences of developing challenging mathematics programs for all students. How do we obtain both deep understanding and computational fluency? Please save Mar 8 and Apr 12 (both are the second Thursday of the month) for future independent workshops. Come as a group for some departmental team-building. There are stipends and CPDU credits. Sign up as noted below to reserve your slot for
Mar 8: More French Mathematics . Descartes and Constructive Geometry
Given length AB; construct BD so that the length of BD is the square root of the length of AB. This is the second proposition in Descartes. geometry book.
John Baldwin and John Masley will lead discussions on how to connect this and similar problems to Chicago classrooms. How do you build scaffolds to help students attack multistep problems?
4:30 . 4:45 Sign in, informal networking
4:45: Welcome and introduction of the questions for small group discussion.
5:00: Small group workshops and networking
5:35: Readouts from the small groups to the whole team.
5:55: Light supper and networking
6:25: Follow on with small groups and a readout
7:15: Wrap-up, forms and survey, bring your parking ticket for validation
If you have interesting challenge problems which can lead to useful classroom practices and instruction, please fax them ahead of time to 312-996-1491 (ATTN: JOHN MASLEY) so that we can have copies for distribution.
CPS Teacher Benefits: $56 stipend and 3 CPDU credits
Dinner and Parking Included
Taft Hall is located on the campus of UIC
826 S.Halsted, Chicago IL
Parking is available at the Halsted and Taylor Street Parking Structure
Anatoly Libgober, John Baldwin, and John Masley welcome your suggestions for topics. Check back here for details on this program.
To reserve your space at the Mar 8 Forum, either:
312-413-3750
