Using Technology to Promote Guided Inquiry in Secondary Mathematics

 

June 13, Monday

Morning:  10:00 am – 1:00 pm

                                    Activity 1:  Calculator Inventory

                                    Activity 2:  Height vs Shoe Size

Afternoon:  2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

                                    Activity 3:  Bounce and Pass

                                    Activity 4:  Motion

                                    Activity 5:  Graph Match

HW:  Create appropriate graphs for various data sets.

 

June 14,  Tuesday

Morning:  9:00 am – 12:00 pm

                                    Activity 1:  Constant Rate Walk

                                    Activity 2:  Making Connections

                                    Activity 3:  Meet You at the Intersection

                                    Activity 4:  Cycling

Afternoon:  1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

                                    Activity 5:  Design a Fountain

                                    Activity 6:  Growth and Decay

                                    Activity 7:  Exponential Tooth Decay          

HW:  Determine functions from real world situations.

 

June 15,  Wednesday

Morning:  9:00 am – 12:00 pm

                                    Activity 1:  Ball Bounce

                                    Activity 2:  Light Intensity vs Distance

                  Activity 3:  Cooling

                  Activity 4:  Swing Time

Afternoon:  1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

                                    Activity 5:  Sound Wave

                                    Activity 6:  Pressure vs Volume

                                    Activity 7:  TI Website

HW:  Determine functions for data collected during the day.

 

June 16,  Thursday

Morning:  8:00 am – 12:00 am

                                    Activity 1:  TI Navigator for Math

                                    Activity 2:  Lion and Ranger

                                    Activity 3:  Quadratic Modeling

Afternoon:  1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

                                    Activity 4:  Absolutely Dora

                                    Activity 5:  Performance vs Anxiety 

HW:  Derive a degree n polynomial given n+1 points

 

June 17,  Friday

Morning:  8:00 am – 11:00 am

                                    Activity 1:  Near and Far

                                    Activity 2:  Population Modeling     

Afternoon:  12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

                                    Activity 3:  Disease Spread

HW:  Final Exam