Keystone Weekly
volume 3, issue 15        January 14, 2002

This week's Key Points: *Colloquium Photos,* *Web Picks of the Week,* and *PA State Standards*
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Colloquium Photos

Object Inquiry
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/ednicolloq.shtml
After Standards, What Next?
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/kipcolloq.shtml

Last fall, Keystone participants attended professional development events at The Franklin Institute. These two online scrapbooks offer a glimpse into the activities of each day.

At the Object Inquiry colloquium, Susan challenged participants to use inquiry in considering unknown objects, leading to a wider application of how inquiry can be taken out of the classroom and applied in field trip settings. During the colloquium focusing on standards, Dr. Kip Bollinger addressed the relationship between instruction and state science and technology standards, and then participants spent the afternoon in the museum galleries identifying exhibit elements that could be used to illustrate the standards.

As always, the Teachers' Community page offers the links to these and other colloquia scrapbooks.
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/teachers.shtml

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Web Picks of the Week
New York Times: Madam, I'm 2002 - a Numerically Beautiful Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/02/opinion/02POSA.html

The article linked above (it's a short one, and well worth a quick read) inspired us to seek out web resources that could provide ways to make mathematics more appealing to students who don't like math and believe that they'll never excel at it. We think you might enjoy perusing the sites below after taking a look at the New York Times article.

Classic Problems from Dr. Math. These are a lot of fun.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.classic.problems.html

Here's a quotation from this site: "If you have never liked math before, chances are the real problem is that you just haven't found the kind of math that you do like. Try out some of these things and see what you think."
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/nc_math/index.html

This site gives real-life, practical applications of how math really is relevant to daily life.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/

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Pennsylvania State Standards
http://www.pde.psu.edu/standard/stan.html

We have received the following information from Dr. Kip Bollinger of the Pennsylvania Department of Education regarding the state standards.

"The publishing of the science and technology standards and the environment and ecology standards completes their regulatory process. The publishing in the PA Bulletin (see http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol32/32-1/9.html) makes them regulatory."

To reach the standards online, click on the above link, or access them through the Standards section of the Keystone website at http://www.keystone.fi.edu/standards.shtml.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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