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This document contains information about the STANDARDS PROJECT for section 2 of Math 113 in Fall 2004.    

Appearing on the inside front and back covers of your textbook are the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Standards for teaching Mathematics for grades PreK-8, as revised in 2000. For the purposes of this assignment, we will use the original Standards for grades K-8 as presented in 1989 (you'll receive this handout soon).

I. Read the standards.

II. You will be assigned a specific item from the Standards. Look through elementary school Mathematics magazines (such as Teaching PreK-8, Teaching Children Mathematics, Arithmetic Teacher) and find an activity/lesson appropriate for teaching elementary school students a mathematical concept related to your assigned Standard. Most of the activities in these publications are geared toward the Standards, so it should not be difficult to find an appropriate article. If you have trouble, ask your instructor for help. No web sources. But feel free to use the web to find journal references. For instance, The NCTM website has many useful links. You may try, for example, MTMS Subject Index or TCM Subject Index.

III. Outline your chosen activity by completing the activity sheet that comes with your standards handout. In it you will list the name of your chosen activity, your Standard name and number and grade level, lesson objective, materials, procedure, assessment plans (how will you know if your objective was accomplished?), and appropriate citation. This outline is due on Tuesday Nov. 16.

IV. You will present the interactive portion of your activity in a model lesson to the class. You will be given roughly 10-15 minutes for your presentation. It's likely that you will not have enough time to finish your lesson; the idea is to explain how the lesson would develop if you had adequate time. Please discuss the need for materials with your instructor: we will do our best to help you obtain them. Presentations will be made during the last two weeks of class: you'll be scheduled for a specific day ahead of time.

V. You will hand in to your instructor a type-written final copy of your lesson plan on the day of your presentation. We would like to distribute a booklet of all the lesson plans to each member of the class at the end of the semester so that you can use it a resource of ideas for teaching Mathematics to elementary school students.