Advanced Functions and Modeling
2008
(Last Updated on
02/12/2008)
Advanced
Functions and Modeling provides students an in-depth study of modeling and applying functions.
Home, work, recreation, consumer issues, public policy, and scientific investigations
are just a few of the areas from which applications should originate.
Appropriate technology, from manipulatives to calculators and application
software, should be used regularly for instruction and assessment.
·
NC School of Science and Mathematics
AFM Website
· The Shodor Foundation’s AFM Website
· The Texas course Mathematical Modeling with Applications
·
Minimum Admission Requirement Presentation
(PowerPoint) at NCCTM
·
Centroid article on the development of the new Fourth Mathematics
Course
·
Purpose and Scope of the course that became
·
Final Report of the Pre-Curriculum
Subcommittee of the UNC OP Committee on the Fourth Math Course.
·
The
North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Advanced
Functions and Modeling (pdf file).
(These are textbooks that members of
the UNC Committee on the Fourth Mathematics Course have suggested as good books
that might be used for AFM)
·
Advanced Functions and
Modeling: What is it and Who is it for? A PowerPoint presentation by Dr.
David Royster at NCCTM
·
Handout (pdf file) for
·
Trainer’s Workshop Presentation
·
Summer 2007
AFM Workshops – Updated
19-Feb-2007
·
2005 NCCTM Talk by David
Royster (handout)
·
2006 NCCTM Talk by David Royster (handout)
·
2006 NCCTM Talk
by Dr. Katrina Palmer
Online Resources for
Teachers of AFM:
We are
always in need of more material – more good material. There are many modules online and many that
link mathematics with different occupations and professions. I have collected a few links in the first
item. The second item lists some files
that have been added that you should use “at your own risk”. They may work excellently in AFM. If you do try one or more of any of these
files, please contact David Royster
to let him know what worked and what did not work. We will try to keep a review list online to
let other teachers know how well these modules did or did not work.
Please
inform me if any of the links do not work.
If you have a link that you would like to have added please mail it to David
Royster
Online Resources for
Advanced Functions and Modeling (February, 2007)
1. The AFM webpage at the Shodor Education Foundation in
2. The Weather Channel Classroom
(free registration required for teachers – mostly K-10)
3. What Determines a
Planet’s Climate – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies – good for
working with data. There are other
modules available at http://icp.giss.nasa.gov/education/
4. High
School Operations Research and the book “Does This Line Ever Move?” – Very
nice applications to decision making, quantitative decisions, and such.
5. enviromath.com
– the online home of “Quantitative Reasoning and the Environment”
6. Lessons from the National Council
of Economic Education - http://www.econedlink.org/
Summer Workshops for
Teachers of AFM:
The
teachers who attended one of the summer workshops received a CD with a number
of modules and lessons. The modules have
been updated and are listed below. All
are in PDF format. Contact David
Royster to request
Microsoft Word formats of these files. Just
click on the Module to start the download.
You will need Adobe Acrobat to read these files.
Introduction with
the NC DPI Standard Course of Study (created Apr
2004)
Module 01: Data
Collection and Analysis (created Apr 2004)
Module 02: Univariate Data (created Apr 2004)
Module 03: Probability (created Oct 2004)
Module 04: Logarithmic/Exponential Functions (created Apr 2004)
Module 05: Piecewise Functions (created Apr 2004)
Module 06: Power and Polynomial Functions (modified Feb 2005)
Module 07: Trigonometric Functions (created Apr 2004)
Module 08: Recursively-defined Functions (created Apr 2004)
Module 09: Graphing Exponential Functions (created Apr 2004)
Module 10: Parametric Equations (created Apr 2004)
Module 11: Linear Programming (created Apr 2004)
Module 12: Building
Your Dream House (created Oct 2004)