A Math Activity Book - A Mathematical Mystery Tour And Tour Guide A mathematics teaching, multiple intelligence Mystery Tour book centered on the This book (and supplement), based in large part on the fibonacci numbers http://www.markwahl.com/mathematical_mystery_tour.htm
Extractions: +Tour Guide Newspaper + the new Millennium Supplement Check out the Millennium Supplement , printed April 2001. It has another 22 power-packed pages that bring the Mystery Tour book into the 21st Century: mysterious numbers connected to fractals, the stock market, the musical scale and more!) This book (and supplement), based in large part on the Fibonacci Numbers and the golden ratio (golden mean) has grown to be somewhat of a math teaching classic and resource book in its sixteen years of existence. Three teachers recently offered these unsolicited endorsements: I teach a 6-7-8th grade gifted and talented class in Socorro, New Mexico. This book is fabulous! It is my full sixth grade curriculum! I branch from it to literature, writing, poetry, science and other subjects. I have never seen a book so student-friendly, and subject-inclusive. It pulls math concepts through all subject areas. Kim Berlat Three years after retirement (I taught middle school gifted kids in the "hood"), I still miss the classroom and our favorite teaching/learning experience...The
Fibonacci Numbers And The Golden Section Exploration of fibonacci numbers in Nature and the Arts Tips for Teaching.This resource is ideal for student reading and reports as well as assignments http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=36529625
TSM-4: Mathematics Resources On The Internet Includes mathematical puzzles, animations, articles and teaching resources.fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section Here you can find out who fibonacci http://www.bham.ac.uk/ctimath/workshops/w-oundle.htm
Extractions: Oundle School, Peterborough This is a practical session to illustrate some of the ways in which the World Wide Web can be used as a resource for teachers and learners of mathematics. Browsing the Internet can be very time-consuming, so the following selection has been made to save time during this session. Many of the descriptions have been taken or modified from the documents themselves; some are lessons or interactive materials, others are mathematical tools. Many of these sites are listed in the CTI Mathematics information gateway . These represent resources of all kinds, including links to mathematical organisations and projects developing Web resources for teaching and learning in mathematics. The Math Forum is a Centre for Math Education on the Internet funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of Math Forum is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, citizens at all levels who have an interest in mathematics education. Includes links to a vast number of resources such as
SMClinks fibonacci numbers and Nature This page has two parts. The first looks at thefibonacci numbers and why they appear in various family trees and patterns http://www-maths.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~smc/SMClinks.html
Extractions: The following sites include puzzle pages, resource sites for teachers, mathematical organisations, tricks and cartoons, fact pages, mathematical encyclopaedias - in fact anything that a mathematician, young or old, will find interesting! Click on a blue heading to link up with that site. They are listed alphabetically. Abacus - the art of counting with beads Lots of information on the abacus. Alphametic Page An alphametic is a peculiar type of mathematical puzzle, in which a set of words is written down in the form of an ordinary "long-hand" addition sum, and it is required that the letters of the alphabet be replaced with decimal digits so that the result is a valid arithmetic sum. Association of Teachers of Mathematics The official home page of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Bamdad's Math Comics Page This is a collection of some mathematics related comics and cartoons. BEATCALC: Beat the Calculator! A collection of over 150 tricks for quick calculating. Black Douglas Professional support in mathematics education for elementary and high school teachers and teacher trainers.
BUBL LINK: Mathematics Education Resource type directory; fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section A majoremphasis of the MAA is the teaching of mathematics at the college and http://bubl.ac.uk/link/m/mathematicseducation.htm
Extractions: BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources Home Search Subject Menus Countries ... Z Titles Descriptions Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching Centre for Research in Mathematics Education Chance Database ... Zero in four dimensions Comments: bubl@bubl.ac.uk Set of links to a large collection of activities, tutorials, lesson plans, projects and tools aimed at the educational sector. Broad subject categories include arts, business, English, foreign language, health and physical education, history and social studies, mathematics, science, technology, vocational education, education, and community interest. Resource type: index The Centre, established in 1986, is a focus for research and curriculum development in mathematics teaching and learning with the unifying aim of enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges. Includes mathematics resources, puzzles, games, computer programs, inservice courses, a comparative study of Maths GCSE exams, and the IMA journal 'Teaching Mathematics and its Applications'.
MAT 142 Past Projects activities. Games for teaching mathematics (many many many different ones) fibonacci sequence in nature art;; DUI testing and statistics; Fractals http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~tfoley/classes/projects142.htm
Extractions: Rules for the Final Project in MAT 142 Due: December 2 (Thursday) 1. There are no rules! The final project is on anything related to mathematics. Learn something that you are interested in learning, learn it any way that you want, and convey what you learned any way that you want. This is a generalized version of Multiple Intelligences that I have been involved with since the 1970's. If you choose to give an oral presentation, please notify me by November 30 or sooner. The following contains a partial list of what some have done in past semesters (some are from the 1970's!). Humor and creativity are most welcome! MAT 142: Some projects of the past Math History Reports on: Civilizations: Mayan, India, Egypt, Greece, Babylonian People (partial list): Pascal, Lewis Carroll, Kazinski (unabomber), Florence Nightingale, Napoleon, Descartes, Gauss, Nostradames, Galileo, Babbage, Turing, Noether, Hypatia, Archimedes, Euclid,Pythagoras, Newton, Plato, George Boole, Mary Boole (math psychologist), Ramanujan, + more... ACTING AS IF they were the person above (some with costumes of the century) and speaking in the first person about their life and their math accomplishments.
The MATHMAN the fibonacci numbers, and the Equal Tempered Chromatic Music Scale . The Math Program Don and Jerry s great way of teaching math loving it! http://www.shout.net/~mathman/
Extractions: The above is a copy of Don's watercolor painting of The Nautilus shell; it is Don's logo. The shell is beautiful, its shape a mathematical curve, and can be obtained from Shell World, at seashellworld . Also see the equation for the shell making a spiral IES java applet making a Nautilus, Xah Lee's work on spirals (and other curves) and student work on the growth of the Nautilus (chapter 6), and comparing the Spirals of the Nautilus shell, the Fibonacci numbers, and the Equal Tempered Chromatic Music Scale WELCOME ! Refreshing insights into the learning and doing of some important mathematics, by young people (while doing lots of arithmetic, using many hands-on materials, science to math activities, and the non-trivial use of calculators and computers) for children, as well as adults. Don assumes only that a student can count. Try sample problems from Don's books by chapter! Don does best when you buy his books "Calculus By and For Young People (ages 7, yes 7 and up)" and "Calculus By and For Young People-Worksheets"
Mathematics WWW Virtual Library [FSU Math] o, fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section fibonacci sequence, Helpful forteaching and learning many different math and science concepts. http://www.math.fsu.edu/Virtual/index.php?f=4
Enrichment - Secondary School activity book includes teaching notes, reproducible student worksheets and An intriguing exploration of the mystery and magic of fibonacci numbers and http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/math/math/mr/enr/books/enrbooks.html
Extractions: The little insights and ideas we all so laboriously discovered for ourselves come together in this carefully-structured, systematic book about mathematical proofs. Once students understand and analyze the structure of proofs, theyll be able to follow the more informal versions in texts and learn to create their own. Number Treasury
PRIMARY OSMOSIS 24 Braund M. (2001) Primary Plants A handbook for teaching plant science in theprimary school Questions Publishing fibonacci numbers in Nature http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/osmos/os24_prim.htm
Extractions: There has always been a close link between plants and mathematics. The simple counting of petals can reveal the number sequence that was identified by Fibonacci: lilies have 3 petals, buttercups 5, delphiniums 8 and ragwort 13 onto michaelmas daisies and sunflowers with 34, or even 55 petals. Similar patterns can be seen in seed heads (sunflowers) and tree branches. OSMOSIS 20, 2001 ). Another idea would be to make daily recordings of the growth of a fast plant (rapid cycling brassicas). Here we describe an activity (How tall are you in leaves?) that can be used as an example of making non-standard measurements and hence illustrating the importance of using standard measurements. This is part of the new Green Fingered Mathematics workshop that has been developed for primary teachers (
Extractions: We have collected, and continue to collect links to other useful websites. It is a tedious job checking they are still live links. If you find any that are dead or that are wrong, please email the Web Editor Links on this page have been categorised into Key Stage relevance. Please do not treat this rigidly - there have been things from a Foundation link used at KS5 and things from a KS5 link used in KS1. The key is to use your imagination. With thanks to Andy Tynemouth of Devon Curriculum Services for permission to use this set of links. About Mathmagic
Calculator Workbooks - Fraction Calculator Changing Units, The fibonacci Sequence, Changing Fractions to Decimals, Full of activities to use in initial teaching and reinforcement of http://www.eaiusa.com/mo__calculator__workbooks__fraction.htm
Extractions: Casio Calculators TI Calculators Sharp Calculators Calculator ... A-Z List Fraction Calculator Resource Workbooks Discovering Mathematics with a Fraction Calculator by Frederick W. Stevenson This book discovers fraction in the following topics: Prime Factors Reducing Fractions, Greatest Common Factors and Least Common Multiples, Repeating Operations: Functions, Repeating Operations Approximations, Number Curiosities, (Non-Whole) Number Curiosities, Calculation Magic, Calculator Behavior, Changing Units, The Fibonacci Sequence, Changing Fractions to Decimals, Changing Decimals to Fractions, Changing to Numerator, Exponentiation with Remainders, Numbers in A Foreign Language, Length on a Geoboard, Area On and Off the Geoboard, Linear Diophantine Equations, The Euclidean Algorithm, Finite Continued Fractions, Infinite Continued Fractions, Regular Polygons and Continued Roots. (Paperbound, 71 pages). W-1035-SP
Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL) numbers and Computation Patterns and Sequences fibonacci Sequence Schools andteaching continue to be based on the idea that knowledge acquisition must http://www.ethnomath.org/search/browseResources.asp?type=subject&id=406
General Math - Patterns - Themepark Travel to the FunSchool and find math games and activities. People who likeFibonacci numbers are serious about those numbers and sometimes join the http://www.uen.org/themepark/patterns/generalmath.shtml
Extractions: Patterns General Math Mathematics can be said to be the science of patterns. These patterns can be real or imagined, visual or mental, static or dynamic, qualitative or quantitative. Mathematical patterns can be found everywherein the physical universe, in the living world, or even in our own minds. Sample some of the following activities to learn more about mathematics. Places To Go People To See Things To Do Teacher Resources ... Bibliography Places To Go The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about math WebMath
MastHead - Top Left Logo Image Faces In A Circle Student At Number Patterns Fun with Curves Topology, Provides links to activities that teach R Kids Math, A collection of online interactive math problems on http://www.amphi.com/teachers/psteffens/math.html
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Read This: Count Down After introducing the fibonacci numbers, Conrey invited the students to try to prove My students think this is the essence of good teaching, but my own http://www.maa.org/reviews/countdown.html
Extractions: by Steve Olsen In 1998, a room of approximately thirty teenagers listened to Brian Conrey give a lecture on elementary number theory lecture. First came a crash course in terminology and notation, including recursive definition and the definition and notation for "a divides b". After introducing the Fibonacci numbers, Conrey invited the students to try to prove that the 5th Fibonacci number divides every 5th Fibonacci number that comes afterwards. After a few minutes, a quiet voice said, "I think it can be generalized. I think F n divides F mn It was thirteen-year-old Tienkai Liu. As the story goes, Conrey began stalling for time, asking for ideas on how to prove it, and for examples. "But I can prove it!" replied Tienkai, and he marched up to the board and gave a beautiful proof. Tienkai Liu was one of the six high school students on the 2002 US International Mathematics Olympiad team. Count Down is the story of those six members and the problems they solved on that Olympiad. The book is as fascinating as the individuals themselves, who, in addition their passion for mathematics and problem solving, enjoy word games, music, politics, creative writing, and sports.
ThinkQuest : Library : Arithmetic fibonacci numbers are a different way of counting. This site is dedicated toteaching high school level math students the basics of the TI83 Graphing http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=246
Extractions: Teaching Today publishes innovative teaching tips on a weekly basis. Written with the busy teacher in mind, each tip is concise, practical and easy to implement in the classroom right away. Topics covered in Teaching Today are classroom management, career development, high stakes testing, instruction and planning, parental involvement, reading in the content areas, using technology in the classroom, and portfolio development. Teaching Today also offers free weekly downloads that correspond to the tips. Our free downloads make implementing the teaching tips even easier. Teaching Today provides educational resources for teachers looking for everyday solutions to the challenges of the classroom. Field Trips Go Virtual The virtual field trip has finally come of age, and if you haven't yet taken one with your students, now is the time. Whether you are studying the geology of the Galapagos Islands or learning about the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Library of Congress, there is bound to be a museum or organization that has set up a Web site that enhances your curriculum. In some cases, the exhibits have been long gone, but online visitors still have the opportunity to visit the exhibition on the Web.
Web Data Structures And Algorithms Algorithms for computing the fibonacci function (David Eppstein) fibonaccinumbers (mathematical properties) Teaching activities Homepage. http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/teaching/algorithms-web.html
Extractions: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." E. W. Dijkstra Useful General Links Godfried Toussaint's Course Topics on the Web 251B - Course Pages Mike Hallet's web page (Luc Devroye's Class Notes) ... Algorithms Course at the University of Aberdeen Specific Course Material: 308-251A Chapter Index: The Complexity of Algorithms The Correctness of Algorithms Linear Data Structures Graphs ... Sequence Comparison Gravity as a Computer: Computing the Centroid of a Polygon with a Plumbline Centers of Gravity of Polygons The Knotted String Computer Pythagoras' Theorem: Pythagoras' Theorem (An award winning proof and interactive Java applet demo) Animated Proof of the Pythagoream Theorem by M. D. Meyerson A Hinged Dissection Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem Other Dissection Proof s (with interactive Java applets) More than forty other proofs of the Pythagorean theorem The Converse of Pythagoras' Theorem The Abacus The Abacus in various number systems ... Links to History of Computing Francois Labelle's Tutorial on the Complexity of Ruler and Compass Constructions (with interactive Java applet) GRACE (A graphical ruler and compass editor) The straight-edge and compass Constructive geometry of the Greeks Geometric constructions Geometrography and the Lemoine simplicity of geometric constructions ... More Euclid on the Web Relative computing power of models of computation:
Links To Resources For Teaching Mathematics Collection of links to online mathematics education teaching materials. http//www.seds.org/billa/tnp/ ; The fibonacci numbers and Golden section in http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfjko/urls.htm
Extractions: Other Uncategorized links mostly from the NCTM News Bulletin The searchable Gateway to Educational Materials Union Catalog The Chalkboard High School Math Project Ideas Word Problems for Kids ... Search for education, K-12, teaching then choose Education, then K-12, then Teaching. New York University Mathematics in Biology The Mathematics TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics. ... The Perfect Number Journey features discussions and lessons related to perfect numbers Math in Daily Life Education World: Where Educators Go to Learn: Comprehensive programs and materials for primary and secondary school students and teachers. Addison Wesley's HomePage Eisenhower National Clearinghouse DCL. InSITE: The Information network of SITE. ISBE Resources. ... Project Capetown - audio and video. Interesting links by Furman University Math.
