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From: "Leslie Ercole" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Middle Level Mathematics Network" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re:      mathscape
Date: Fri, Nov 12, 1999, 6:48 AM


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I am teaching CHANCE ENCOUNTERS right now! What an awesome unit! I sure
learned a lot! It is a 7th grade unit but I am currently using it with my
8th grade class. I starting implementing the program last year. I was unable
to complete as many units as I had wanted so I started this year with a 7th
grade unit on probability and statistics! Students spend time playing games
to determine experimental and theoretical probability. They learn how to
design outcome grids. They also learn how to take a game (miniture golf) and
make a similation of that game on an outcome grid! We were shooting hoops in
the gym yesterday to design our own game!
My 8th graders love to come to class! They think this is a great unit!


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Abrams <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 6:33 AM
Subject: mathscape


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>From: Eric Moyer <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Middle Level Mathematics Network <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: FW: controversy of standards and programs
>Date: Mon, Nov 8, 1999, 9:40 PM
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>I am writing to gain information about Mathscape.  Is
>the unit called, "Chance Encounters" part of the grade
>8 program?  What concepts are covered?
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>Thanks,   Eric Moyer, Manchester 8
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>--- Jim Abrams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Jim Abrams
>> Director of Mathematics Education
>> Vermont Institute for Science, Math and Technology
>> 7 West Street
>> Montpelier, Vt   05602
>> Ph: (802) 828-0069
>> FAX (802) 828-0076
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>> From: "Leslie Ercole" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "Middle Level Mathematics Network"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re:      controversy of standards and
>> programs
>> Date: Fri, Oct 22, 1999, 2:27 PM
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>> I am in the second year of implementation of
>> Mathscapes and love it! I agree
>> that once you have won the kids over with the
>> program, the parents are soon
>> to follow. I am currently teaching the unit "Chance
>> Encoounters" with my 8th
>> grade students. Last week the students were telling
>> me how much they enjoyed
>> what they were doing in class. My guess is that this
>> is not a conversation
>> that you would have with students learning basic
>> skills and rote
>> memorization. There are always opportunities to give
>> students basic skills
>> work to take home. It is the ability to show
>> students how math works in
>> their lives that I find the challenge. With this
>> math program I never hear
>> "When am I ever going to use this?"
>>
>> Leslie Ercole
>> Gilman Middle School
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