Use of eExamples and Illumniation

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Use of e-Examples and Illumniation

• Preview
• What are e-examples and illuminations?
• Group work followed with summary of all groups
• Questions to answer-
• How do these activities/problems enable us to
  distinguish between procedural and conceptual
  learning?
• Define what is procedural and conceptual
  learning?
• Can we categorize the problems worked on today in
  these groups?

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e-Examples and Illuminations

• e-Examples are interactive problems that
  illustrate, demonstrate and support the
  principles and standards.
• The Illuminations site is designed to
  "illuminate" the NCTM Principles and Standards
  for School Mathematics. The site contains a
  growing array of Internet resources that can be
  used to improve the teaching and learning of
  mathematics. This site is part of the Marcopolo
  project, funded by MCI Worldcom.
• www.standards.nctm.org

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Group Work

• We will now form groups and each group has 4
  tasks.
• These tasks will look at activities in e-Examples
  and Illuminations.
• For some groups the activities in e-Examples are
  the same as the Illumination activities so that
  you can compare them with each other.
• Some of you will have different activities in the
  two sites to get an idea of what other things are
  out there.

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Group Assignments for e-examples
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Group Assignments for illuminations

• http//illuminations.nctm.org/

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Conclusions

• -Theres almost infinite amount of material
  available at these sites.
• -We thought that for some of the activities hands
  on experience may have been more beneficial and
  for others the computer interactivity greatly
  enhances the learning process (conceptual and
  procedural parts).

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