What do wavelets have to do with Ingrid Daubechies?
Worksheet - Counts as the Major Writing Assignment for this Topic -
copies for the class
DUE at the beginning of class on the day of your presentation.
Your job in this assignment
is to create an effective classroom worksheet that engages
the rest of the class with the mathematics for your mathematician
and satisfies the checklist.
The first draft of this worksheet is worth 50%
of the grade for this teaching assignment
and is due at the beginning of your presentation.
Bring copies to hand out to the class.
These are DUE at the beginning of class on the
day of your presentation, but I am happy to make the photocopies for you
if the completed worksheet is given to me
a day in ADVANCE during office hours.
Otherwise you must make the copies yourself.
Be sure to follow the directions
on
the worksheet checklist.
The final version of the worksheet is worth 50% of the worksheet grade
and must be turned in
a computer file attached onto WebCT (see the directions on the
worksheet checklist)
along with your graded original and graded checklist.
The Carolyn Gordon worksheet is a good model for you to follow.
You will receive another worksheet on Andrew Wiles as a second model.
15-22 minute
PowerPoint Presentation - Counts as a Major Topic Exam Grade -
DUE before 1:30 pm on the day of your presentation, NOTES
DUE after your presentation.
Prepare a 15-22 minute
PowerPoint presentation.
The computer file (whatever.ppt)
must be sent to Dr. Sarah as an attachment on WebCT
before 1:30 pm on the day of your presentation.
It is your responsibility
to make sure that this is received by Dr. Sarah
and runs correctly. Do not expect to load
your presentation from a disk - the computer does not have a disk drive -
but do also have the presentation backed up on disk so that you could
send it from school if necessary.
This presentation counts as a major exam grade,
so be sure to follow the directions, the
presentation checklist and to prepare great presentations!
In the past, to supplement their presentations,
groups have brought in manipulatives,
and one group even created a claymation video about the mathematics!
Poster are not a good idea since they are hard for the class
(someone in the back row) to read.
You should present the answers to the above questions very slowly -
as you are planning your pace for the class, remember that it took
a while for the material to sink in for you.
Oral presentations my be summed up as follows:
"Tell them what you're going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what
you told them".
In the introduction you tell them what
you are going to tell them. In the main portion
of the talk you tell them.
In the conclusion you tell them what you told them.
Don't be scared of this repetition. Sometimes repetition is the only way to clarify misconceptions. Naturally, this means that you should repeat things in different ways, and not quote yourself verbatim.
Group Work
Group work on major
assignments will be
self evaluated and these evaluations will be
taken into account in the determination of the final
grade. So, your job is to make sure that you do your
part to make sure you are working in a
group effectively.
Inequalities in group work WILL
be addressed.