Is Build & Learn A Hoax? MSIS SAYS ‘NO’

Math Solutions Investigative Services (MSIS) now hiring Gu ACTION RESEARCH BULLETIN • MSIS Investigating Monte Math PARENTS PROTEST MATH INQUIRY Is Build & Learn A Hoax? MSIS SAYS ‘NO’ President Studies new Math Approach Students Motivated to Build Own Math Tools

Review the Evidence ANCIENT SUMERIANS (3,000 BC) DEVELOP AN ALPHABET and NUMBER SYMBOLS from AN OCTOGRAM Ispettore De Naso From the Matematia Campo Ufficia Milano, Italia Sumerian Youth Chisels his cuneiform letters and numbers

http://imrl.usu.edu/OSLO/technology_writing/001_004.htm It is thought that the Sumerians used pebbles to count and later baked clay tokens.. In these tokens, a stick shape equaled 1; a clay pebble equaled 10; a cone equaled 60, etc. Markings added to the clay tokens indicated the object being counted.

Ancient Sumerian tablets survive depicting the work of the youth 3,000 BC Sumerian Number Translation Sumerians thought to be Fathers of Geometry groups.yahoo.com/group/Atlantis_Mysteries/message/4131 http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DSUMERIAN%2BNUMBERS%26b%3D1%26ni%3D18%26ei%3Dutf-8%26xargs%3D0%26pstart%3D1%26fr%3Dyfp-t-

http://www.arthursclipart.org/fromthepast/past/page_01.htm Egyptians taught their young the base of 10 In their temples

Babylonian Discoveries: The Quadratic Equation An Babylonian clay tablet of approximately 2000 B.C. contains the following problem and solution: Problem: I have added the area and two-thirds of my square and it is 0;35. What is the side of my square?Solution: You take 1. Two-thirds of 1 is 0;40. Half of this, 0; 20, you multiply by 0;20 and it, 0;6,40, you add to 0;35 and the result 0;41;40 has 0;50 as its square root. The 0;20 which you have multiplied by itself, you subtract from 0;50, and 0;30 is the side of the square.(Reference: Burton, David. The History of Mathematics, p 61).

Rhombicuboctahedron Created by Da Vinci picturetricks.com/view_imag...g_id=3482 William Oughtred develops a slide rule around 1600 Compass in painting of 1500 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule www.tutorgig.com/ed/Astrology

http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/anthony.roberts/legofractals.htmlhttp://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/anthony.roberts/legofractals.html http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KJke4G4qBMgj4Ahq2jzbkF/SIG=132nqot1i/EXP=1285698438/**http%3a//www.djibnet.com/photo/geomag/geomag-3d-sierpinski-gasket-139924409.html Classroom Aids Uncovered http://childcare.scholarschoice.ca/products/School-Age-575/ Teacher create interactive math to motivate

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Students reap rewards of creating their own tools

Evidence Finds that Monte Math Hypothesis is correct Build it Use it Learn As it has been for centuries

5 BUILDING commitment 2 LEARN

A lot of Math Material to cover in 9 wks Pace that learning currently takes

TEAM UP CONNECT COOPERATE COLLABORATE

Teachers Encourage Instructional Decision Making Students EmployTechnology to LEARN SOLVE EVALUATE

twitter E mAIL POD CAST Classroom Management Utilizes TEXT FAX WEB

TOOLS EMPOWER STUDENTS Emulate Analyze Calculate Animate

NATURE http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/spiral.htm The protractor’s power NATURE ANIMATED LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL NATURE EMULATED LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL

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Is Build & Learn A Hoax? MSIS SAYS ‘NO’