MATHEMATICS PRAYER

LORD TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS,
AND GRAPH THEM ACCORDING TO YOUR WAYS,
TRUSTING YOU TO BASED US IN YOUR PLAN,
TO COMPLIMENT YOUR PERFECT DIAGRAM.

SUBTRACT TO POINTS YOU DON'T WANT FROM US,
AND ADD THE VALUES YOU HAVE SET FOR US,
DIVIDE THE DIVIDENDS WE PASS ACCORDINGLY,
SO WE CAN MULTIPLY THEM SYSTEMATICALLY.

DRAW THE LINES WE HAVE TO FOLLOW,
GUIDING US PROPERLY WITH YOUR ARROW,
BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE TEND TO BE IRRATIONAL,
YET, ALL THE WHILE YOU WANT US TO BE RATIONAL.

WELL, WE LEARNED THAT LIFE IS LIKE A SLOPE,
WITH ALL ACCENTS AND DESCENTS WE MUST COPE,
GOING THROUGH SUCH A WONDERFUL FORMULA,
IS JUST LIKE SOLVING PROBLEMS IN ALGEBRA.

LIFE IS INDEED YOUR INFINITE EQUATION,
PERFECTED BY OUR COMPUTATION,
AND WE, ONLY A MINUSCULE PROJECTION,
GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE TO YOU ALMIGHTY CREATION.

Adapted: Math Teacher, General Santos City

History of math, biographies of mathematicians…

Hey guys… I posted the following sites for me to navigate right away if ever i’v something to look for particularly history of math & biographies of mathematicians:

History of Mathematics: Chronology of Mathematicians. A list of all of the important mathematicians working in a given century. ... Includes more than 1000 biographies with major mathematicians listed alphabetically and ...

Biography of famous mathematicians:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enPH263PH265&q=biographies+of+famous+mathematicians

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?&p=biography+of+famous+mathematicians&rs=0

http://math.about.com/od/mathematicians/Mathematicians.htm

Images of Famous Mathematicians:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=famous+mathematicians&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fp_ip=PH&vc=

http://images.google.com.ph/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=famous+mathematicians

http://images.google.com.ph/images?hl=en&q=mathematicians&gbv=2

Math Cartoons:
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=en&q=math+cartoons&meta=

Math Sayings:
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=en&q=math+sayings&meta=

On Cebu Tour: MathTed International Conference Participants

MathTed International Conference '07 at Cebu City

Sarangani Division Delegates - International Math Educators Conference 2007, University of San Carlos, Cebu City...

pose w/ ma'am cathy vistro, my prof in ateneo de manila university and our MATHED president.

http://www.abiva.com.ph/Downloads/Turn_around.pdf department of the Ateneo de Manila University and the president. of the Philippine Council of Mathematics Teacher Educators. (MathEd), she is also a member ...

http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=93950 Catherine Vistro-Yu, who serves on the faculty of Ateneo de Manila University, ... In 1996, she helped found MATHED, the national organization of ...

Pose at USC Cebu City w/ my co-participants during the International Conference of Math Educators, (MATHED) last October, 2007 - photo sent by Dr. Maitree Inprasitha, Director of Center for Research in Mathematics Education(CRME) and Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen City, Thailand.

Hey co-educators in math! Tired of finding ways to teach our students?

Just visit the following websites:

http://www.math.com/

We hope your visit to math.com brings you a greater love of mathematics, both for its beauty and its power to help solve everyday problems.
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984)Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.In P. J. Davis and R. Hersh The Mathematical Experience, Boston: Birkh�user, 1981.
Egrafov, M.If you ask mathematicians what they do, you always get the same answer. They think. They think about difficult and unusual problems. They do not think about ordinary problems: they just write down the answers.Mathematics Magazine, v. 65 no. 5, December 1992.

Other sites for math teachers:
http://mtl.math.uiuc.edu/classroom_resources.htm
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
http://mathforum.org/teachers/
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/math/index.htm
http://www.pppst.com/math.html
http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=geometry+ppt&hl=tl
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=tl&q=trigonometry+ppt&meta=
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=tl&q=statistics+ppt&meta=
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=tl&q=logarithm+ppt&meta=

Math Song:

GEOMETRY
(tune: lemon tree)

1.
COME ONE, COME ALL LET'S JOIN OURSELVES AND STUDY GEOMETRY. A LESSON OF POINTS, LINES AND PLANES AND LOGICAL REASONING. AND HERE WE'LL MEET PYTHAGORAS WITH EUCLID AND THALES. THE MENTORS OF SO LONG AGO, THEIR THEOREMS WE WILL KNOW.

chorus:

GEOMETRY IS VERY EASY, IT WILL KEEP OUR MINDS BUSY. WE WILL BE VERY HAPPY IF ONLY WE'LL BE WITTY.

(repeat 1)
(repeat chorus)

Math Games and Puzzles

Math isn't only about numbers - math skills are found in puzzles and games too.
Practice your math skills with fun and challenging games. There are action games, puzzles, and other learning activities. Concepts include basic math operations, algebra, percent, geometry, and money.

You can visit to these sites:

http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/logicgames.html

MATH POEMS







http://www.durham.edu.on.ca/programmath2/Math_Poems/math_poems.html

There are many ways of writing math poems.
Here is what Ms Beatty did in her class:
To create the math poetry I divided the class into groups of 4 and placed a metaphor on chart paper that they were to add to. The groups rotated from station to station until all had contributed to each sheet. Some of the metaphors used were:
Math is a sandwich because they both ......
Math is a quilt because they both ......
Math is a journey because they both ......
Math is a plant because they both ......
Math is a sport because they both ......
Math is an emotion because they both ......
We discussed the charts and chose which statements made better images and why. Then I asked the students to brainstorm metaphors related to a math topic. We discussed different types of math topics and each student had to list at least 10 metaphors on their topic of choice. They were asked to write a poem on the subject and to choose at least 4 metaphors from their list. The poems needed editing because some reflected random thoughts and didn't have a focus. I found that those students who had an excellent understanding of math concepts and vocabulary produced the better poems. This activity would work better at the end of a math unit as a review of the concepts taught rather than the open topic of just math.
Karen Beatty, Teacher grade 4/5 gifted