PRIME Professional Development Opportunities
Fall 2005

NOTE: Credit card payments for graduate credit (and anything else on campus) will no longer be accepted as of November 1, 2005.

Title: FOUNDATIONS OF INQUIRY-BASED MATHEMATICS WITH A FOCUS ON GEOMETRY & MEASUREMENT
Instructor(s): Nancy Ward, Vicki Kapust

Target Group: elementary, middle school & high school math teachers, K–12 special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 2 BHSU graduate/undergraduate credits/2 credits SD Recertification/30 C.E.credits/Audit
Date: Oct. 3, 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 12, 2005
Time: 4:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Valley View, Numeracy Office

Participants will explore foundational content and processes that students should know and be able to use as they progress from kindergarten through high school. This particular iteration of "Foundations" will emphasize the content areas of Geometry and Measurement. Connections will be made throughout the grade levels to show the development of these ideas. Participants will explore and deepen their own knowledge of mathematical concepts as well as the NCTM process standards. They will also consider applications for that knowledge in the classroom.

Title: RELEARNING TO TEACH ARITHMETIC: ADDITION & SUBTRACTION
Instructor: Stacie Tschetter

Target Group: elementary & grade K-8 special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 1 BHSU graduate/undergraduate credit/1credits SD Recertification/15 C.E. credits/Audit
Date: Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 17, 2005
Time: 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Central High School, Room B200

This professional development course guides teachers to think critically about students' comprehension of arithmetic. Participants view and discuss video segments and then work on related math problems and discussion questions. The videos focus on students as they demonstrate and explain to their teachers and classmates how they have solved problems involving whole-number computation. The videos also include narration and a number of interviews with teachers who offer their perspectives on the kinds of learning environments that support students as they build their understanding of concepts related to arithmetic.

By learning about computation across the grades, we are better able to understand how these ideas develop, how they are connected, and how students within and across grade levels, develop an understanding of whole number computation.

Title: COGNITIVELY GUIDED INSTRUCTION IN MATHEMATICS: CGI I and CGI II COMBINED
Instructor(s): Deann Kertzman & Kim Clark

Target Group: elementary math teachers & special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 2 BHSU graduate credits/2 credits SD Recertification/30 C.E. credits/Audit
Date: Sept. 13, 20, 27, Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 29, Dec. 6, 13, 20, 2005
Time: 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: TIE Office, 1925 Plaza Blvd, Spruce Room

If you have previously taken “Cognitively Guided Instruction I and are interested in CGI II contact the instructor.

This class is a combination of classes Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI I) and Cognitively Guided Instruction II (CGI II). It is designed to assist teachers in using research-based knowledge about children’s mathematical thinking to guide instruction. Participants will learn by watching, discussing, and reflecting on how students solve mathematical problems. Participants will learn about a structured framework of mathematics and how children’s thinking evolves through the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The text Children’s Mathematics will be provided by the PRIME Grant.

Title: INQUIRY-BASED APPROACHES TO PROBABILITY IN GAMES & SIMULATIONS: SECONDARY
Instructor: Sally Heberlein

Target Group: upper elementary, secondary math teachers & special education staff
Lane Change Status: all certified staff
Available Credit: 1 BHSU graduate credit/1 credit SD Recertification/15 C.E. credits/Audit
Date: Sept. 29, Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 17, Dec. 1, 8, 2005
Time: 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Central High School, Room D210

We encounter chance every day. Will it rain? Will our favorite team win? Is the game fair? Our language is rich with words and phases for describing different levels of probability: usually, a sure thing, a long shot, once in a blue moon, and many other colorful expressions.

In this “MathScape” unit, Chance Encounters, students see probability through a mathematical lens by investigating games and simulations. The investigations are full of opportunities for students to explore the mathematical themes of theoretical and experimental probability, multiple representations of probability, and modeling situations with simulations. Whether conducting experiments for games or designing their own simulations, students learn how mathematical thinking can provide insights in the world around them.