This workshop took place on Saturday, July 16
Dine College, Tsalie, AZ; Room 118 GCB
Lower level sessions are designed for grade k – 6 teachers.
Upper level sessions are designed for grade 7 – 12 teachers.
Schedule
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast and discussion.
9:00 – 10:30
Session 1
Lower level: Jayadev — Counting facets
Upper level: Tatiana — The Decanting Problem
10:30 — 11:00
Discussion in level groups.
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2
Lower level: Amanda– Combinatorics and Pascal’s triangle.
Upper level: Dave — Block formulae
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00
Session 3
Lower level: Dave — Toilet paper math
Upper level: Matthias — Counting Trees
Toilet Paper Math from Zala Films on Vimeo.
hyperbolic paraboloid instructions
In Jayadev’s session teachers constructed models of the Platonic solids. Contact us navajomath@gmail.com
if you would like help getting templates for these solids.
We talked about Vi Hart’s sphereflakes in the session on polyhedra.
You may view her video at
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/math-for-fun-and-glory/vi-hart/vi-cool-stuff/v/sphereflakes
It is worth checking out the other fun math on Kahn: