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PCMI. PCMI. Acronyms. PCMI – your institute. Park City Mathematics Institute. Where Acronyms Thrive!. IAS. IAS – our sponsor. NOT StudIES In Princeton, NJ but NOT part of Princeton University Catherine works for IAS The Steering Committee meets there.
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PCMI Acronyms
PCMI – your institute • Park City Mathematics Institute Where Acronyms Thrive!
IAS – our sponsor NOT StudIES In Princeton, NJ but NOT part of Princeton University Catherine works for IAS The Steering Committee meets there
NSF – our major funder • National Science Foundation Thanks also to other government sources, private funders, states and others.
MSP – from the NSF • Math Science Partnership The MSP program is a large, national program of grants to partnerships of schools and higher education for improving schools.
SSTP – your program • Secondary School Teacher Program
HSTP – former name of SSTP • High School Teacher Program This name is history, but you will still see it around some.
Some of the other programs • Homework: Find out who and what they are.
PD3 – our PCMI MSP, part of SSTP • PD = professional development 3 SSTP Principles 3 partner districts - nearly 1/3 of us here 3 makes a nice pun
PDO Groups – part of SSTP - the local orgs • Professional Development and Outreach Groups Partnership of Teachers with University Math for Professional Development and Outreach
PDOs can have acronyms too! • LAPDOG = Los Angeles PDO Group • NWMI = Northwest Math Interaction
Onward and Upward! • Today we unveil Two New Acronyms that have been minted for 2006.
DIPD • Program for Designing and Implementing Professional Development • It just rolls off the tongue! But even though DIPD is just here for a week, Catherine really should not dub us DIPs.
TPC • TPC is another big NSF program of grants. The letters stand for Teachers Professional Continuum. • We have a new TPC grant jointly with EDC. You should cherish and support it. If you are not in PD3, it is probably paying for you. • Our TPC’s name is Mathematics for Teaching: A Problem-Based Resource for Teaching. Should we call it TPC or MFT or ... MFTPBRT? • Come back in 2007 and find out!
Assessment(AKA The Test) • 1: Show with words, tables or graphs the relationship among at least four PCMI acronyms. • 2: Use 3 or more PCMI acronyms in a single sentence. • 3: Work in your groups to design a card for a game called PCMI Acronym Bingo. • 4: What is EDC? (Ask Bowen.) • 5: What does LSMFT stand for?
An Answer to Question 1 PCMI SSTP TPC PD3 PDOs
HGTW! • Have a Great Three Weeks!