Most Useful Resource

I really liked the assignment of finding resources and there were some really great things that I found. Some of the most helpful resources were the individual activities that I found while searching the texas instruments website, united streaming, and the apple learning interchange. However the most useful resource was the yteach.co.uk Although this is not a totally free resource, these are some of the best online tutorials that I have been able to find. There are great student interactions and it is one of the best ways for students to get caught up in the content. Even though there is a pay factor, it is great that the site allows you to preview all of the interactions so students can practice on the tutorials before purchasing. When allowing a few students to try out some of the tutorials, they truly enjoyed working with the content. I am looking into seeing if my department would like to purchase a couple of the units/tutorials.

What is on my mind?

Well after the honeymoon and coming back to reality, there is a lot of things on my mind.... But as far as this class and project is going, there are a couple of things going on. I am really ready to begin devoting more time to this project and create some interesting activities to use. I have 2.5 weeks until i have to have my project ready. I still am not quite sure of how I could create a real-world problem surrounding my project, but I really want an authentic context for students to apply trigonometric concepts in. Once I have my preplan comments back, I feel that I can really get into my project and produce some great changes to my plan and develop something great.

Creativity and My Project

Thinking about how to incorporate creativity within my project is a complex topic. For upper level mathematical problem solving and application there is a lot of creativity needed. However, I think to satisfy the LOTi standards a much more indepth approach to gaining creative thinking is needed. I will begin looking for ways to incorporate this when i get back from my honeymoon. So this will be the last post for a while, and I will be back on 10/12