Presentation Notes - CAMT 2006 Notes and Extras! Dave Johnston presented some classroom activities and ideas at CAMT 2006 in Houston, Texas. If you would like to review the presentation notes or look at some extra material on some of the activities he included there, you've come to the right place. Read more... Conversational Math "Show" Me the Money Hollywood worries about movie revenues rising or falling. Blockbusters break records and theater attendance seems unpredictable. But one predictable trend remains. Since 1994, ticket prices have... Read more... Math History Archimedes and Exponents The local mall fills a van with jelly beans and holds a contest to see who can gues the number of jelly beans in the van. The Greek mathematician Archimedes offeres a strategy to solve this sort of problem 2300 years ago. In doing so, he also introduced the use of exponents to decribe large numbers. Read more... TI Graphing Calculator Programs Download the calculator programs used in Math... First Hand: Activities for Middle School Math Students. PROB.8xp - This program recreates the probability method for estimating pi featured in the book. The user decides how many trials to conduct. The calculator then selects random points within a square, counts how many of those points also lie within the inscribed circle (using the distance formula) and uses the data to estimate pi. PIZZA.8xp - This program for the TI-83+ graphing calculator family can be used along with the arc sample in the Statistical Sampling lab. The user enters the length of the radius of an arc and the central angle of the arc, and the program returns the length of the arc, the area of the arc (which is needed for the lab) and the area of the circle related to the arc. d-johnston@excite.com	Math... First Hand: Activities for Middle School Math Students Ten learning activities for middle school students Developed and classroom tested by teachers View Preview (PDF) See more details Softcover: $12.06 Download: $6.25

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