Beth Anderson

•What do you want students to get from knowing you

That I care about them, that they are worthy of my care and have worth as a person, and that my Christian values are more important than mathematics. Who they are and their feelings about themselves

•What life lesson do you want students to get from math analysis.

That exploratiuon and regrouping is better than instant success. The first day in an analysis we do flinking. (float, sink) They have to create an inanimnate object that will sink below the surface but float above the bottom. Lesson: try something, if doesn’t work, readjust!!!! Rarely doesn’t something you try work the first time. Regrouping is positive. Too often kids feel that if you don’t get it the first time, you’re a failure. Edison—I found 2000 things that didn’t work before I found one that did. There is no failure.

How can we improve math education?Q: my Concern about math /science education in US

(see e-mail on this subject she will send).

Students that are tested in china in India are only college preop, we test everyone, so the gap may not be as wide as it seems.

A lot of our kids have become soft, lives are good , don’t have the drive or motivation to get there. Goals are vague: good job, good car. It makes it hard to make a student want to learn math.

We need more evidence of the relevance of math in kids lives. In general, kids don’t see that the ability to research and learn is essential to their life. We have to make sure that they see as many practical applications as possible, --you can’t guarantee me that you wont need it at some point.

Who knows what you’re going to need with the world changing as fast as it is?

Were not a technical school; we learn for learning’s sake—renaissance people love to learn.

VALUE PROPOSITION

find out talents they never knew they had

confident in their abilities

learn things they may not have the opportunity to explore in a larger environment

leadership opportunities

very successful at large university because well prepared here

How is math education here better than pubic school

Hastings Colege BA in math

UNO Masters Sc in math education

Courses in continuing education

National Math Teachers Conference 2004

Presented at other conferences

To make math more fun and appealing to students activities to make math more relevant

TexasInstruments Conference Feb 2006—using tech in classroom—the relationship of music to trigonometry graphs. Soundwaves are are sine graphs, the highs and lows correspond to tone and pitch.

Sine graphs in real life:

Sunlight

Temp variance

Tides

Math is not just about theory

Recognition:

1996Presidential Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics

Have to be nominated

App process—3 questions about philosopjy and a lesson

Choose 1 math teacher for each state, 20 FROM NEBRASKA APPLIED

School got $7500, used to purchase calculator technology (probes, microphones, and sent teachers to national math conference.

Award is used to encourage and offer opportunities for professional development of math teachers, share the knowledge

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Faculty member, NMSI (Nebraska Math Science Institute (taught an UNL) She taught public school teachers across state of Nebraska

Presented new techniques to 15 school districts across the state

Nebraska State Department of Education: wrote State Standards

One of 4 hs teachers across state to write the Nebraska math frameworks (precursor to standards) concepts and methodology, created lessons, and assessment , then went on the write standards used in public schools

1996 President of Nebraska Assoc of Teachers of Mathematics

2002 one of 35 national teachers Radio Shack Teachers of the Year in math science and technology (240 applicants)

Cooper Foundation Award in Omaha (advancement in education)

They publish projects as award winning ideas: also won Cooper Award:

Melba Osborne (Kindergarten teacher)

Dan Frost (left Brownell for Pakistan, back in Omaha)

Teachers at Brownell incredibly supportive and thrilled when I received honors—not jeolous,They celebrated it; about a dozen in the 50 states who didn’t want it known among their own faculty.

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2002 Brownell Talbot Tradition of Excellence Award (from the David Scott foundation) similar to Buffet Award (for OPS district award (the more letters you generate the more seriously your candidacy taken)

Meant the most from the people who know me best (tears!)

Criteria: SEE DIANNE

Impetus: every day I have to continually earn it and be worthy of it.