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Math as Mind Power Volunteers Needed to Pack Food Boxes
A career path for math teachers
unteers on M onday, Dec. 12, and on
W ednesday, Dec. 14, to staff the
assem bly lines used to stuff the
boxes. M ore volunteers and their
vehicles will be needed Saturday
morning, Dec. 17, to distribute the
40-pound boxes to hom es and to the
Police Bureau’s Northeast, South­
east and East precincts.
T o volunteer, call the Sunshine
Division at 503-823-2119.
T he S unshine D ivision o f the
Portland Police Bureau is gearing
for its holiday giving activities, and
is asking the public to participate.
Each D ecem ber, volunteerscon-
verge on its w arehouse in north
Portland for tw o nights o f packing
m ore than 3,000 boxes with food.
“ W hat’s so great about these
nights is that in a short duration, all
these boxes are stuffed w ith food,”
said Sgt. W ayne K uechler, head of
the organization. “ It’s so intense.
A nd at the end o f the evening,
w hen you look over all the boxes,
you have this real sense o f accom ­
plishm ent.”
The division is looking for75 vol-
Portland Police Bureau Sgt.
Wayne Kuechler helps sort the
boxes o f emergency food and
clothing going to area resi­
dents for the holidays.
Math takes reasoning and creativity, skills that students learn
by sharing ideas.
W ith a new five-year, $5 m illion
grant from the National Science
Foundation, O regon State U niver­
sity researchers are w orking with
classroom teachers, school adm in­
istrators and college students in
education to im prove m athem atical
discourse in the classroom .
It ju st adds up - math education
is about m ore than learning to add,
subtract, m ultiply and divide, the
educators say. It takes reasoning
and creativity, skills that students
learn by sharing ideas. In fact, it
takes w hat researchers call devel­
o p in g “ m a th em atical h ab its o f
mind."
C ollaborators include research­
ers at Portland State U niversity, the
nonprofit T eachers D evelopm ent
G roup in W est Linn, the W oodburn
School D istrict and RM C Research
C orp.T hrough a series o f sum m er
institutes and school-year w ork­
shops, they hope to create a cadre
o f math education leaders in school
districts across the state.
The new grant supports partici­
pation by about 100 teachers from
50 schools in 10 O regon school
districts, from kindergarten through
high school. These teachers are
taking part in sum m er institutes and
online courses during the school
year, and they receive site-visit
support over the five years o f the
grant.
A nother 80 teachers are sup­
ported through additional fund­
ing from the O regon D epartm ent
o f E ducation and the participating
school districts.
T he project focuses on all co n ­
tent areas o f m ath, says Karen
H iggins, director o f teacher ed u ­
cation in the O SU C ollege o f E du­
cation.
“W riting and talking about math
increases conceptual understand­
ing,” she said. “T he challenge for
c la ssro o m te a c h e rs is to find
w orthw hile tasks that engage stu­
dents in team w ork, debate and dis­
c u ssio n .”
Such tasks include tests o f rea­
soning ability. O ne exam ple: there
are four hats in a checking room.
Four men receive their hats at ran­
dom . W hat is the probability that
exactly three o f them will receive
the co rrec t hat? A nd another:
there are only tw o consecutive
prime numbers between Oand l ,000
that differ from each other by 18.
T heir sum is 1064. W hat are they?
H ow students approach their
solutions contributes to their m ath­
em atical habits o f m ind. A nd ulti­
mately, saysT om Dick, OSU math­
e m a tic s p ro fe sso r an d p ro jec t
leader, it’s about raising student
achievem ent.
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I w ant to be free from a relationship
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my husband because 1 thought he
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gone dow n the drain and I still w ant
the fantasy w e dream ed of. Should
I leave him and is there anything I
can do to get my old husband back?
-U n h a p p y W ife.; B altim ore, Md.
Dear Unhappy:
Y ou married your husband for m ate­
rial com fort instead of eternal com ­
panionship. Have a discussion to
see how you can support and moti-
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