UNCC MINDSET Project: Mathematics Instruction using Decision Science and Engineering Tools

MINDSET- A Math Course with Real ANSWERS!

The curriculum is presented to high school students as a series of real-world problems with
the purpose of making the underlying mathematics more relevant to them.

The goal of MINDSET is to improve students’ mathematical abilities and attitudes by building
on skills learned in Algebra II in relatable problem contexts.

The course is comprised of two semesters, one semester of deterministic content and the
other probabilistic. Both use algebra as a prerequisite.

Techniques covered in the deterministic curriculum include linear programming, the critical
path method, facility location problems, transportation problems, and multi-criterion decision
making.

But…MINDSET is different! These techniques and tools are woven into real-world problem
contexts, where the student starts with the contexts and proceeds to math skill development.

@ the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

June 14-17, 2011 and June 21 – 24, 2011

8:30 am – 4:30 pm

WWW.MINDSETPROJECT.ORG

(Select Workshop Registration from left sidebar under “Tasks”)
Contact Dr. David Pugalee @ david.pugalee@uncc.edu for more information

WorldView Summer Opportunities and 2011-12 School Year Opportunities

PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR COLLEAGUES

MEMORANDUM
To:                 World View Partners
From:            Robert Phay
Date:             May 17, 2011
SUBJECT:  Summer Opportunities and 2011-12 School Year

          As June graduations close the school year, World View offers several ideas for the summer and ways to start the 2011-12 academic year with an international focus. 

Trip to Korea and Mongolia:  On July 2 I will travel to Korea and Mongolia for 2 ½ weeks.  If you have schools (elementary, middle, high, or early college) that would like to connect with me, World View will send them lesson plans on Korea and Mongolia, pictures and geographic information, several emails during the trip, and a post card mailed from Mongolia.  I also will be happy to take a school’s “Flat Stanley” or other small mascot as a companion, as several of you sent on trips to Antarctica, Peru, Cambodia, and South Africa.  If you would like one of your schools to “join” me, please notify Katharine at klaco@unc.edu or 919-962-9264.

Summer TV and Reading Assignment:  World View would like to give you, your colleagues, and your students a summer assignment.  Fareed Zakaria, editor of TIME Magazine and author of the highly regarded book, The Post-American World, hosts an hour-long program on CNN called “GPS.” GPS looks comprehensively at foreign affairs and global issues that impact our lives.  We recommend that you watch this program every Sunday (10:00am and repeated at 1:00pm) to keep you thinking globally.  Finally, look for the July 2011 issue of World View’s Global Updates for summer reading recommendations from the World View staff.

I hope these efforts will keep you connected to global issues this summer and start your classrooms on an international note for the next academic year. In fall 2011 World View will offer our annual K-12 Global Education Symposium on “Peace and Conflict: Ten Years After 9-11” (October 19-20).  A flyer with registration form is attached so that you can register a team from your district or school.  This program has filled early the last five years, so register now to guarantee spaces for your team. Registrations fees are not due until the program, but you are welcome to pay now to avoid reverting funds.

Best wishes as you wrap up the 2010-11 school year.

Encl:   World View K-12 Global Education Symposium Flyer

-- 

Katharine Laco, Assistant Program Manager

World View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB 8011

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8011

tel: 919.962.9264

fax: 919.962.6794

klaco@unc.edu

http://www.unc.edu/world

World View Summer Opportunities for 2011-2012

PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR COLLEAGUES

MEMORANDUM
To:                 World View Partners
From:            Robert Phay
Date:             May 17, 2011
SUBJECT:  Summer Opportunities and 2011-12 School Year

          As June graduations close the school year, World View offers several ideas for the summer and ways to start the 2011-12 academic year with an international focus. 

Trip to Korea and Mongolia:  On July 2 I will travel to Korea and Mongolia for 2 ½ weeks.  If you have schools (elementary, middle, high, or early college) that would like to connect with me, World View will send them lesson plans on Korea and Mongolia, pictures and geographic information, several emails during the trip, and a post card mailed from Mongolia.  I also will be happy to take a school’s “Flat Stanley” or other small mascot as a companion, as several of you sent on trips to Antarctica, Peru, Cambodia, and South Africa.  If you would like one of your schools to “join” me, please notify Katharine at klaco@unc.edu or 919-962-9264.

Summer TV and Reading Assignment:  World View would like to give you, your colleagues, and your students a summer assignment.  Fareed Zakaria, editor of TIME Magazine and author of the highly regarded book, The Post-American World, hosts an hour-long program on CNN called “GPS.” GPS looks comprehensively at foreign affairs and global issues that impact our lives.  We recommend that you watch this program every Sunday (10:00am and repeated at 1:00pm) to keep you thinking globally.  Finally, look for the July 2011 issue of World View’s Global Updates for summer reading recommendations from the World View staff.

I hope these efforts will keep you connected to global issues this summer and start your classrooms on an international note for the next academic year. In fall 2011 World View will offer our annual K-12 Global Education Symposium on “Peace and Conflict: Ten Years After 9-11” (October 19-20).  A flyer with registration form is attached so that you can register a team from your district or school.  This program has filled early the last five years, so register now to guarantee spaces for your team. Registrations fees are not due until the program, but you are welcome to pay now to avoid reverting funds.

Best wishes as you wrap up the 2010-11 school year.

Encl:   World View K-12 Global Education Symposium Flyer

-- 

Katharine Laco, Assistant Program Manager

World View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB 8011

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8011

National Humanities Professional Development for Social Studies Teachers

In the summer of 2011 the National Humanities Center, with support from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, will again offer three online professional development seminars exclusively for North Carolina high school teachers of American history and literature. They will directly address the learning objectives in Competency Goal 2 of the Standard Course of Study in United States history, "Expansion and Reform: 1801-1850."

Participants will receive a stipend of $100. (A participant will receive only one stipend even if he/she participates in multiple seminars.)

These seminars seek to deepen teacher content knowledge, introduce teachers to fresh primary resources, and offer advice on how to use those resources with students. They explore documents and images through discussion led by distinguished scholars. Texts come chiefly from the Center's online resources for teachers Toolbox Library and TeacherServe®. Each seminar will require from 35 to 50 pages of reading. Participation requires a computer with an internet connection and the ability to accommodate speakers and a microphone.

Recertification Credit: Three National Humanities Center online seminars will provide ten and a half contact hours or 1 CEU credit. Because the seminars are conducted online, they may qualify for technology credit in districts that award it. The Center will provide documentation of participation.

Registration Deadline: May 31, 2011

This program is made possible by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

SUMMER 2011 SCHEDULE

Tuesday, June 28; 10:00-11:30 a.m. Building a Nation: Westward Expansion and the Coming of the Civil War?, Elliott West, Univ. of Arkansas

Wednesday, June 29; 10:00-11:30 a.m. The Cult of Domesticity; Lucinda MacKethan; North Carolina State Univ.

Thursday, June 30 10:00-11:30 a.m. Religion and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Robert Abzug; Univ. of Texas