Fall 2012 School Visits

Tatiana Shubin spent the Fall of 2012 in the Navajo Nation. While there she visited:

  • St Michael HS, St Michaels
  • Chinle HS, Chinle
  • St Michael MS, St Michaels
  • Tsehootsoi MS, Ft Defiance
  • Many Farms HS, Many Farms

Sample Middle School activities include:

  • 1. Splitting and Sharing
  • 2. Parity and Invariants
  • 3. Tiling and Coloring
  • 4. Triangles, Squares, Pyramids, and Cubes
  • 5. Fractions (Mediants, Farey Sequences)
  • 6. Beans, Piles, and Other Games
  • 7. The Game of SET
  • 8. The Game of SET and Finite Geometries
  • 9. Exploding Dots
  • 10. 36 Officers Problem
  • 11. AMC-8, 2011

Sample Hgh School activities include:

Eight sessions with the same topics as sessions 1-8 for middle schools.

  • 9. Counting Squares (Pythagorean Thm; Area Numbers expressible as the sum of two squares)
  • 10. Invariants and Modular Arithmetic
  • 11. Wilson’s Thm; some algebra (factoring and using it in mental arithmetic)
  • 12. Chromatic Numbers