T Th 2 - 3:15 pm, room 323 Boyd Graduate Studies

Instructor: Dr. Sybilla Beckmann, Professor of Mathematics

501 Boyd Graduate Studies

542-2548 e-mail: sybilla@math.uga.edu

Office hours: (tentative) Mondays 11:30 - 12:15; Tuesdays 1 - 1:50 pm; Thursdays 1 - 1:50 pm. You are also always welcome to make an appointment to see me at other times.

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Caroline Wright http://www.math.uga.edu/~cwright/

434G Boyd Graduate Studies

542-2618 e-mail: cwright@math.uga.edu

Office hours: TBA

Information about and policies of this section of MATH 5020

MATH 7020 (graduate credit) information

Weeks 1 & 2: Aug 18, Aug 23, Aug 25, Aug 30, Sept 1

Weeks 3 & 4: Sept 6, Sept 8 QUIZ, Sept 13, Sept 15

Weeks 5 & 6: Sept 20, Sept 22, Sept 27, Sept 29 TEST

Weeks 7 & 8: Oct 4, Oct 6, Oct 11, Oct 13

Weeks 9 & 10: Oct 18, Oct 20, Oct 25 QUIZ, (fall break Oct 27)

Weeks 11& 12: Nov 1, Nov 3, Nov 8, Nov 10

Weeks 13 & 14: Nov 15 TEST, Nov 17, Nov 22 , (Nov 24 Thanksgiving)

Weeks 15 & 16: Nov 29, Dec 1, (no class Dec 6, UGA operates on Friday schedule), Dec 8, reading day: Dec 9

Final exam: 3:30 - 6:30 pm, Tuesday, December 13, in our usual classroom.

Websites of interest:

The textbook's website with chapter by chapter links of interest

Georgia Performance Standards, which are currently phasing in with grade 6 mathematics (scroll to the bottom for unit links)

Problems and tasks that Sybilla Beckmann wrote for her 6th graders during the 2004/2005 school year organized according to the grade 6 Georgia Performance Standards (posting is not yet completed!)

Project INTERMATH, which focuses on building teachers' mathematical content knowledge through mathematical investigations that are supported by technology

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles and Standards for School Mathematics

Katie Lopez's project: fraction games you can use with your students instructions, power point game, jeopardy fractions game