MED 683
Assignment #3
Due Tuesday 7/11

1. Continue your exploration of Exeter's problem-based approach to teaching mathematics by completing problem set #2. These primarily deal with the general from of a linear equation: ax + by = c, and further your thinking about parametric equations.

2. Read the University of Montana's, The Mathematics Enthusiast article by Frank Lester on problem solving. Professor Lester is one of a handful of renown scholars of problem solving in school mathematics.

3. Watch the video by Jo Boaler on common core mathematics. We'll watch several of Jo's videos and utilize her materials in our next couple of classes.

4. Read the short chapter on Problem Solving taken from a math textbook. Write 3-5 pages discussing what you see as the purpose of this chapter and its value in growing students' problem solving abilities in light of Lester's reflections on the role of problem solving in mathematics classrooms and other work & readings we've done in the course. Please include references in your writing and if you quote sources, follow the APA format. Lastly, keep in mind SMP #1.

5. Over the next couple of weeks we'll look at curricula that are problem-based but very different from Exeter's materials. To begin to get a sense of the approach of one middle school curriculum, please complete problems 1.3 part a only, 2.1part a and b, 2.3 part a.1 only, parts b and c.