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The "Connecting Math to Our Lives"
Project began in Puerto Rico where Orillas co-director Enid
Figueroa wrote a grant to introduce math teachers in Puerto
Rico to global networking and to explore with them how to develop
students' math concepts through the writing process.
Ailleen Velazquez, the math
teacher at an elementary school in the town of Aguas Buenas,
participated enthusiastically from the start, forming sister class partnerships
with schools in Mexico and Galicia,
Spain. The students in the three partner classes exchanged math
collages through the mail as part of their introductory cultural packages.
In class the Puerto Rican students learned about the writing process, kept
math journals, and used e-mail to share math autobiographies, math stories,
and math essays analyzing graphs and statistics they found in the local
newspaper with their partners.
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(Total de entrevistados: 222)
Entrevistados de 7-18 años
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Entrevistados de 19-30 años
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For many of the students the project was a highlight
of their 6th grade year and so Ms. Velazquez created a "math club" to meet
on Saturdays so that her students, now in junior high school, could continue
the projects. During the 1997- 1998 school year she and her students chose
to work on the math project activity "Promoting Equity at
Our School Site".
Entrevistados de 31-42 años
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Entrevistados de 43-60 años
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You can see students designing and analyzing
the rezults of a community and school survey in which the math club students
interviewed 222 children and adults about whether men or women are better
at math. They report that one of the first
lesson they learned was the value of percentages. The students were initially
surprised to see how many respondents thought women were better at math
than men. Because they had interviewed more women than men the raw data
did not reveal nearly as much as their later analyses using percentages.
