T Th 2 - 3:15 pm, room 322 Boyd Graduate Studies

Instructor: Dr. Sybilla Beckmann, Professor of Mathematics

501 Boyd Graduate Studies

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

Office hours: Mondays 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Fridays 11:15 am - 12:05 pm (these may need to be changed). You are also always welcome to make an appointment to see me at other times.

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Bree Ettinger

438 Boyd Graduate Studies

542-2593 e-mail: bree@math.uga.edu

Office hours: to be determined

Information about and policies of this section of MATH 5020

MATH 7020 (graduate credit) information

Weeks 0, 1, & 2: Aug 17, Aug 22, Aug 24, Aug 29, Aug 31

Weeks 3 & 4: Sept 5 QUIZ, Sept 7, Sept 12, Sept 14

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

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

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

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

Weeks 13 & 14: Nov 14, Nov 16 QUIZ, Nov 21, (Nov 23 Thanksgiving break)

Weeks 15 & 16: Nov 28, Nov 30, Dec 5 last day of class, reading day: Dec 7

Final exam: 3:30 - 6:30 pm, Tuesday, December 12, 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.

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

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Curriculum Focal Points for Grades PreK - 8