MWF 12:20 - 1:10 pm in room 303 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.

Information about and policies of this section of MATH 5035

MATH 7035 (graduate credit) information

Weeks 1 & 2: Aug 19, Aug 22, Aug 24, Aug 26, Aug 29, Aug 31, Sept 2

Weeks 3 & 4: (holiday Sept 5), Sept 7 HW that counts as QUIZ due, Sept 9 , Sept 12, Sept 14, Sept 16

Begin to plan your work on your field assignment

Weeks 5 & 6: Sept 19, Sept 21, Sept 23, Sept 26, Sept 28, Sept 30 TEST

Weeks 7 & 8: Oct 3, Oct 5, Oct 7, Oct 10, Oct 12, Oct 14

Weeks 9 & 10: Oct 17, Oct 19, Oct 21, Oct 24 QUIZ, Oct 26, (fall break Oct 28)

Weeks 11& 12: Oct 31, Nov 2, Nov 4, Nov 7, Nov 9, Nov 11

Weeks 13 & 14: Nov 14 , Nov 16 TEST, Nov 18, Nov 21, Nov 23, (Nov 25 Thanksgiving break)

Weeks 15 & 16: Nov 28, Nov 30, Dec 2 Field assignment due, counts as quiz score , Dec 5, Dec 6 (Friday schedule), Dec 7, reading day: Dec 9

Final exam: Wednesday, December 14, 12 noon - 3 pm, 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