Comments on: Weekly Challenge 3: What Can You Do With a Humongous Piece of Xerox Paper? http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/15/weekly-challenge-3-what-can-you-do-with-a-humongous-piece-of-xerox-paper/ getting anyone emotional about science, helping parents and teachers make science an adventure Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Margaret M-S http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/15/weekly-challenge-3-what-can-you-do-with-a-humongous-piece-of-xerox-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Margaret M-S Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:50:54 +0000 http://blogontheuniverse.org/?p=2949#comment-142 Well said about the language of mathematics! As a mathematics and biology major and now a STEM educator, I have always held a strong belief that mathematics is foundational to everything, not just in the STEM areas. I knew when I taught that I could not MAKE every student like mathematics, but I knew when they left the classroom they at least appreciated mathematics. As a teacher educator now, this is what I try to instill in my preservice secondary teachers. Our state is moving towards a quantitative literacy in addition to literacy across the content areas. Their idea of quantitative literacy is to have mathematics across the content areas. Stay tuned! Well said about the language of mathematics! As a mathematics and biology major and now a STEM educator, I have always held a strong belief that mathematics is foundational to everything, not just in the STEM areas. I knew when I taught that I could not MAKE every student like mathematics, but I knew when they left the classroom they at least appreciated mathematics. As a teacher educator now, this is what I try to instill in my preservice secondary teachers. Our state is moving towards a quantitative literacy in addition to literacy across the content areas. Their idea of quantitative literacy is to have mathematics across the content areas. Stay tuned!

]]> By: Chip W http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/15/weekly-challenge-3-what-can-you-do-with-a-humongous-piece-of-xerox-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Chip W Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:38:32 +0000 http://blogontheuniverse.org/?p=2949#comment-120 I just read your Challenge #3 about the really big piece of xerox paper. Here's another answer to the question "What will I ever need this (math) for?" Math is really good brain exercise. It also teaches a way of thinking that's good to be good at. Rational thinking is probably innate, but math helps us develop it. I just read your Challenge #3 about the really big piece of xerox paper. Here’s another answer to the question “What will I ever need this (math) for?”

Math is really good brain exercise. It also teaches a way of thinking that’s good to be good at. Rational thinking is probably innate, but math helps us develop it.

]]> By: Maria Miller http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/15/weekly-challenge-3-what-can-you-do-with-a-humongous-piece-of-xerox-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Maria Miller Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:40:55 +0000 http://blogontheuniverse.org/?p=2949#comment-57 Answer to 2: For the paper stack to be as tall as me, I'd need 14 foldings. The paper length needed to accomplish this is an enormous 14.06 km! Please see <a href="http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm</a> So it isn't feasible to do! The other challenges even less so. You'd need paper so long you couldn't handle it. Answer to 2: For the paper stack to be as tall as me, I’d need 14 foldings. The paper length needed to accomplish this is an enormous 14.06 km!

Please see http://www.pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm

So it isn’t feasible to do! The other challenges even less so. You’d need paper so long you couldn’t handle it.

]]> By: Michele Arduengo http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/15/weekly-challenge-3-what-can-you-do-with-a-humongous-piece-of-xerox-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Michele Arduengo Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:13:19 +0000 http://blogontheuniverse.org/?p=2949#comment-55 Thanks for pointing me to this article. I was fortunate enough to teach at a liberal arts college that had both a writing-across-the-curriculum AND a math-across-the-curriculum program. I think one reason that our society is so math-phobic is because we don't try to integrate math into other subjects beyond the sciences. In the cases where I have seen math come together with history or marketing or visual arts and music, the students have really gained a better understanding of both subjects. Thanks for pointing me to this article. I was fortunate enough to teach at a liberal arts college that had both a writing-across-the-curriculum AND a math-across-the-curriculum program. I think one reason that our society is so math-phobic is because we don’t try to integrate math into other subjects beyond the sciences. In the cases where I have seen math come together with history or marketing or visual arts and music, the students have really gained a better understanding of both subjects.

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