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Other Tribes and Forced Relocation
On June 18, 1812, the American Congress declared war on Great Britain because of British impressment of American sailors, interference with American trade and shipping on the high seas and, to a lesser degree, British abetment of Indian hostilities on the frontier. The conflict ended with the Treaty of Ghent on December 14, 1814, without settling the fundamental issue, the violation of American maritime rights, but it did break the power of the great Algonquin tribes east of the Mississippi who had fought with the British. Their deportation to the West was begun.
The Kickapoo, Delaware, and Shawnee
Three reservations of particular interest to us were established in southwest Missouri. One, the Kickapoo, lay south of the Osage River and included what is now Greene County and the City of Springfield. South of that, the Delaware reservation lay west to the Osage line, south to the Arkansas border and extended east to a line running north and south across Beaver Creek about halfway between Ava and Forsyth. From that line to the North Fork River at Tecumseh lay the Shawnee reservation, encompassing all of central and western Ozark County, part of Taney County, and parts of several counties to the north. Small clans from other displaced tribes drifted into the area and lived among these groups. A clan of some 60 Piankashaws under Chief Laharst lived on Cowskin Creek west of Ava, and another group of the same tribe lived on Cedar Creek two miles north of Forsyth. A few white hunters, explorers, trappers, traders and missionaries also lived among the Indians from time to time.
There were frequent clashes with the Osage who still claimed hunting privileges on their old hunting grounds. Clashes were most frequent with the Delawares and the Cherokees whose lands joined the Osage boundary. These later tribes, with guns and copper kettles, dressed and lived much the same as did the white settlers who followed them and therefore left less of an Indian legacy in Ozark County than did their predecessors, although a number of Ozark(s) natives can point to a red man or woman in their family trees, legacy enough.
Elmo Ingenthron, well-known Ozark(s) historian, published in his book, Indians of the Ozark Plateau, part of a letter dated August 4, 1825, from Francois Lesieves and son to Pierre Menard concerning fragments of Shawnee, Delaware and Creek tribes living on the southeast borderlands of the Ozarks.
The excerpt reads as follows: ". . . They raise stocks of horses, cattle, and hogs and make a sufficiency of bread stuffs for home consumption. No charge of dishonesty has ever been even colorably sustained against them, and the little trade they furnish in fur, peltries, beaver, oil, etc., is extremely acceptable to our small community from its vicinity."
Shawnee Life and Customs
Although the Shawnee had no written language of their own, they were, nevertheless, considered highly intelligent. Chuck Fulkerson, a student of Indian cultures, wrote that the Shawnee were quick to adopt the ways of the white man, his tools, and his guns. They began early replacing the wigwam, with its hole in the top to let out the smoke, with neat, well-built log houses. The men were the hunters and traders, Mr. Fulkerson wrote, and the women did the farming and the cooking. "They had no sugar," he said, "but they collected wild honey and made maple or hickory syrup."
The Shawnee played games, ran foot races, gambled, held festivals, raced horses, and danced. They believed in life after death. There remained, however, some major differences in lifestyles between the Indians and the whites. A show of emotion was considered a sign of weakness by the Shawnee, and noisy or whining children were not tolerated. Babies were strapped to a cradle and carried on the mother's back as she worked or traveled until the infant could sit alone. This practice flattened the back of the baby's head; that was considered a mark of beauty.
As soon as the baby was out of the cradle, the tribe held a naming ceremony with much feasting. An elder of the tribe named the child identifying it with an animal. The name might be such as Running Deer or Howling Panther, but if the child became ill, its name was changed. The people believed that somehow the name was responsible for the illness. At about the age of sixteen to twenty, a boy was expected to prove his manhood by showing great skill as a hunter or as a warrior. He was then presumed ready for marriage to the girl chosen for him by his parents.
Life on the Ozark Mountain reservations was to be short-lived, however. In 1821 Missouri became a state. Lured by the crystal streams teeming with goggle-eye, soup turtles, and bullfrogs; by the narrow, fertile valleys profuse with wild berries and fruits; by the wood hillsides replete with fuel, nuts and timber; and by abundant animal life for food, fur and leather; hardy pioneers began moving, in ever greater numbers, into the region.
The Shawnees were the first to surrender. On November 7, 1825, they accepted and moved to a tract of land south of the Kansas River and west of the Missouri state line.
The 'Treaty of the James Fork' on September 24, 1829, removed the Delawares to a tract adjacent to the Shawnees in Kansas. On October 24, 1832, the Kickapoos signed the 'Treaty of Castor Hill' and were removed to a new range on the Missouri River west of Leavenworth, Kansas.
The smaller clans were absorbed by the larger tribes or were given small holdings west of the Missouri border, and the state was declared free of Indians and legally eligible for settlement by the whites. Eventually, all these (Indian) people were shuttled into Oklahoma along with the Osage and with the Arkansas Cherokees and their brothers from east of the Mississippi who survived the march on the 'Trail of Tears' in 1838.
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if the door latch/ catch and release will not open the door when pushed in then the plastic lever behind the control may be broken. We will need to get behind there to take a look at what has happend.
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|Got a late start at 6:30 summitted about 10:45. Was snowing pretty good. Heard thunder as we were leaving the summit about 11:00. Booked down to treeline where it rained on us the rest of the way. Great long hike. Amazing views from the entire ridgeline.
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|Posted Aug 20, 2004 3:39 pm
|Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: July 2002
|This route is long and crowded. The mountain is impressive, though. I would like to try some of the harder, shorter routes in the future.
|Posted Aug 10, 2004 3:15 pm
|Route Climbed: Colorado Main Range Trail Date Climbed: July 28, 2004
|As Roach states " a long hike"... A pleasant walk in the woods followed by an uphill grind. A lot of fun!
|Posted Aug 2, 2004 2:26 pm
|Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: Summer, 1991
|Quite a distinctive mountain--I like it! Climbed with Aaron Johnson up the steep west slopes (but a good, easy trail), which proved to get us to the summit relatively quickly, but nothing like how fast we descended the wonderful scree slopes a bit further north on the same side! What a wonderful day!
|Posted Jul 29, 2004 2:40 am
|Route Climbed: East Slopes Route Date Climbed: June 27, 2004
|Reached summit at around 8:00 AM. Great climb.
|Posted Jun 29, 2004 2:57 pm
|Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: July 2003
|Plenty of snow!
|Posted Jun 9, 2004 3:14 pm
|Route Climbed: west slopes Date Climbed: September 2003
|Climbed in an early season snowstorm. Bagged all 5 over 14k according to roach.
|Posted Jun 4, 2004 1:30 am
|Route Climbed: west side from n halfmoon lakes Date Climbed: june 99
|this route, contrary to dawson's description, does NOT avoid heinous scree. in fact it defines it.
|Posted May 21, 2004 9:07 pm
|Route Climbed: Southeast Ridge Date Climbed: June 2003
|After hopping over 3 summits to get there, our group finally stood on the main summit after a very cold and windy ascent. A quick descent down the snow fields made up for it, though. Pretty good workout, I'd say.
|Posted May 12, 2004 6:15 pm
|Ryan Kowalski
|Route Climbed: Tour de Massive Date Climbed: July 12, 2002
|This is simply the ONLY way one should climb Massive. How else can one experience the massiveness of Massive unless you walk along all its massive summits? Views from the ascent up to North Massive almost brought me to tears. Do this hike NOW!
|Posted Apr 19, 2004 4:14 pm
|Route Climbed: West Slopes alternate, including Date Climbed: October 19, 2002
|We kicked steps into a snowslope to reach the ridge west of "North Massive." We summitted that peak, and continued the circle tour to Massive's summit. A trip report is available here.
|Posted Apr 12, 2004 12:29 pm
|Route Climbed: North Halfmoon Lakes Trail Date Climbed: June 23, 2001
|Great day out with Mark and Zach. Our route was deffinetly the road less traveled!
|Posted Apr 10, 2004 4:21 pm
|Route Climbed: From the North Halfmoon Creek Trailhead Date Climbed: October 2002
|What an enjoyable climb. There was just enough snow from earlier dump that this "hike" in the summer felt like a "climb" this particular day. Good boots and ice axes were used.
Started from North Halfmoon Creek Trailhead and the entire route is described here:
|Posted Mar 7, 2004 11:55 pm
|Route Climbed: West slopes Date Climbed: August 2002
|Short but steep ascent route.
|Posted Jan 9, 2004 7:15 pm
|Day Hiker
|Route Climbed: Main Range Trail to Mount Massive Trail Date Climbed: 04 August 2003
|I spent a little bit of time trying to decide which peak was highest. I finally decided on the one at N39.18753 W106.47562 (WGS 84). It appears slightly higher than the one at N39.18588 W106.47505.
|Posted Dec 28, 2003 1:05 am
|Route Climbed: East Slopes Date Climbed: July 00
|A little long.
|Posted Dec 3, 2003 1:07 am
|Route Climbed: West Slopes Date Climbed: July 5, 2000
|Very enjoyable climb. I found this one to be prettier than nearby Elbert, depsite the longer length (also less crowded, had summit to ourselves).
|Posted Sep 26, 2003 12:07 pm
|Route Climbed: Native Lake Trailhead Date Climbed: September 2002
|This was an overnight ascent. We started from the Native lake trailhead. Spent the night at Native Lake. The folowing day we did a little tour du Massive. We reached Massive through the ridge that starts right from the summit Eastward. Then we went over Massive Green, North Massive, Point 14169, enjoyed the fresh snow on the glacier and climbed down all the way back to the trailhead. It was a very, very long day. Especially after you are done with the peak and have to hike out for 2-3 more hours with the heavy backpacks on.
|Posted Sep 20, 2003 11:42 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard route Date Climbed: 7.12.03
|Great day for a hike! Windy above timberline, partly cloudy all the way up which made it easier then hiking under full sun. Interesting portion of climb before reaching the summit with breathtaking views, needless to say! Overall much prettier to hike then Elbert. Very windy on the top, hold on to your hats! We were low of drinks even we had packed plenty. Got to the summit sort of dehydrated. Filled up a bottle with snow which helped us make it back. Grateful for that snow! Had attempted this mountain twice in the past year but never reached the summit because of changes in the weather. Felt good to have finally made it. Now I can plan another Fourteener and pack MORE WATER!
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:32 am
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was just wondering what you guys do about writing out xmas cards (and birthday cards etc)? We have recieved a lot of cards just addressed to OH me and Thomas. As OH daughter doesn't live with us (we see her once a week - fortnight depending on her college and work schedule) I was wondering if I am supposed to put our xmas cards from her as well or just from people who live here? If I did put her name on too this would mean that a few people will get cards from her twice - off us and her mum - is this weird?
What about personal cards such as to family members? Obviously we would put her name on cards like Grandma - to OH's mum as she is her and Thomas's grandma. But what about my side - I would feel really weird putting her name on a nanna card to my mum from Thomas? (she is nearly 17 remember) am I wrong to feel this way?
What do you guys do? I don't know if its different coz she is almost 17 and very independant of us. Is it different if your step kids are little ones?
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with cards if its ohs family i write from all of us and step kids, with my family depending on who it is ... if its my mum i write everyone but if its my dad or brothers newphews etc i only put my kids... to be honest at 17 shes old enough to get her own cards in my opinion i know i did... my step kids are 11 and 8 and like to pick their own cards for people.
on that note, do you write one for step kids mum? she gives us one each year and got cards when my kids were born from her and a different one from kids, we do get on when we meet but i still find it strange?
also what do you get on the front of step kids cards? they got me 'someone special' but because im not married to oh i tend to go for ones that maybe you would get for a friend or maybe if i find one special girl / boy?
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Yeah you are right about being old enough to get her own actually hun - but we have been having the whole "i dont feel like part of your family any more" youre trying to replace me" cr@p since I got pg again I think I will leave it to her to get cards for my family if she wants to (she has a job and gets more money a month than I do since I was made redundant). For OH familuy I would put her name anyway but for friends I think I will just put the three of us?
As far as OH ex goes - this is the first time she has given us an xmas card so I will send her one back. We do get on ok but like you hun - I find it a bit weird.
For OH daughter last year I got a daughter card for her and just got OH to put 'from Dad and Debs".
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I put my step-kids names on all xmas and birthday cards, as they are part of my family to, i may not have given birth to them, but i treat them as my own, so all card come from all of us as a family unit, but then i have been with their Dad since they were small, they even call my Mum n step-dad, nanny and grandad and the same with my nan and grandad,
I am glad they know they belong x
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my oh really upset me the other day - he already has a son from a previous relationship and he didnt put my name on any of the presents or the card 'we' bought him ....yet i treat him as if he's part of our family - i seem to have been oushed out.... i think its cuz my oh thinks when he takes his card home his mom wont like it....( she has a big problen with me being with him as it didnt work out for him and her ) but in my opinion he shouldnt care what she thinks x
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Hello CashANDkatieMay - that would really upset me too! have you talked to your oh about it? He shouldn't care what she thinks... in my experience the longer you tip toe around these sort of situations, the longer it takes for any normality in life where the ex's are concerned. x


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Making Multimedia Earn Its Keep
September 2nd, 2010 by Dan Meyer
Sue Van Hattum will be leading a webinar tomorrow to counterbalance the one I facilitated a week ago. Sue is the lo-fi to my hi-fi. Sue's thesis is that we can have the engagement and challenge of WCYDWT without the multimedia.
This is undoubtedly true. Consider Polya, who offered engaging, challenging problems without degrading himself by walking up a down escalator. "Into how many parts will five random planes divide space?" for instance, is challenging and engaging and offers points of entry to learners of all abilities.
So an open question: what's the point of multimedia? If it's just amusing — which is to say, engaging in the worst, most superficial way — I can do without it. My sense, though, is that the feature common to all of these problems …
- into how many parts will five random planes divide space?
- how long will it take Dan to walk up the down escalator?
- how many tickets are on the roll?
- how long will it take to fill up the water tank?
- how fast is the runner?
- what is the killer's shoe size?
… is that they "reveal their constraints quickly and clearly." They're Twitter-sized queries that unpack into full-bodied mathematical investigations.
Multimedia lets us reveal constraints quicker and more clearly, though that isn't a given. Multimedia can have low information resolution. (I'm talking about your stock photography, your dogs in bandanas, etc.) But the information resolution on this single image of a ticket roll blows me away. When you put the quarter next to the roll for scale, the problem literally reveals its own constraints. The learner can gather any information she wants — circumferences, radii, diameters, ticket dimensions — without the teacher having to write or say anything.
I suppose I'm trying to slip Sue a question in advance: how do I reveal the constraints of the same problem that quickly and clearly without the multimedia?
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Put an actual roll of tickets in front of them.
Like, one on every desk? Or just one in front of the class? If just one, who gets to come up and take measurements? What are the other students doing at that time?
on 03 Sep 2010 at 1:31 pm3 Michael
What if the presentation was analog? Students were actually given the tickets or taken to an escalator or given a tank to literally fill with water and given a stop watch or . . . Even typical textbooks have "multimedia" elements in them.
How did the great Greek Mathematicians tackle some of the toughest math problems without multimedia?
Could true analog experience be more pure than any digital presentation/experience?
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on 03 Sep 2010 at 4:58 pm5 Colin Graham
Surely a computer is only one medium, so multimedia implies using non-computer stuff too… ;-)
on 03 Sep 2010 at 5:45 pm6 ruth
well, multimedia is an encompassing term that includes past and current media (being plural of medium) so it should include 'traditional' forms as well? besides, modern technology is a help rather than essential?
I'm not sure I have a grasp on what exactly it means for a good problem to reveal it's constraints quickly and clearly, but I do know that if I took my students to a theater with an escalator, calculating how long it tool to go up the down escalator wouldn't be on their radar unless I explicitly asked the question. Multimedia allows us to bring a lot of noise, propose a question without having to ask it and makes the learner decide what is needed to solve it. Not sure how to do that on a static page. That's why curricula like CPM were ahead of their time. There was no way to withhold information in a book.
on 03 Sep 2010 at 5:58 pm8 Sue VanHattum
I hope you'll bring your question up tomorrow, Dan, and then tell me whether the problem I present does that – reveal its constraints quickly and clearly.
Coming up with good problems is definitely a difficult art.
on 04 Sep 2010 at 4:28 am9 Debbie
I feel it's less to do with the strengths of Dan's videos and images and more to do with the weaknesses of textbook problems. Any written question or diagram in textbooks I'm familiar with give the values you need and rarely one single piece of surplus information.
When using an artefact or video or photo I think we should seek to provide too much information so that students have to tease out the pertinent information themselves.
on 04 Sep 2010 at 4:50 am10 Richard
Here is a relatively low-tech problem I'm considering for my geometry class this year:
See the cartoon linked below (the rainfall part) . What would you like to know?
on 04 Sep 2010 at 5:10 am11 ClimeGuy
Your question hints at another pro-con argument (discussion if you will) about tech vs. non-tech. That's a smoke screen. The better question is what can I do to motivate the powerful idea (i.e. slope formula) that will engage kids and get them intrinsically focused on what I would like my kids to get out of my lesson. This can be done hi-tech, lo-tech, or no-tech. I love to use technology (which includes most multi-media) to motivate because it has this incredible power to engage and motivate quality learning. But like any other learning object it can fall flat on its face if not done well.
I'm sorry I will miss today's Math 2.0 session. I'll be on my way to do time on the beach at the Jersey shore this week, but I'll pick up the archive as soon as find some Wifi.
@Sue, see, I have no doubt that a problem can reveal its constraints quickly and clearly without the aid of photo or video. Polya illustrates that. My question is: how do I do that with problems like the ticket roll or the water tank or the runners or et cetera, without using multimedia?
on 04 Sep 2010 at 6:22 am13 Maria Droujkova
@Josh, @Dan (#1, 2) – My reply was identical to Josh's – use the physical object itself. Of course physical media isn't embeddable, linkable, remixable or reproducible in the ways digital media is. My answer to the concern of scarcity/reproducibility is, "Don't aggregate learners in huge groups that can't share an object sensibly." Even "World of Warcraft" – a good model of scalability, and a digital world – caps most coherent content experiences at 5 to 25 people at a time.
There is one thing you can't reveal constraints without, and media isn't it. It's geeky love. It leads to immense amount of attention to the features of the subject, and to noticing and categorizing properties by importance. This includes intrinsic (to the subject of love) ways to reveal constraints.
For example, paper folding provides great problem-posing opportunities to those who love it. Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzF_YldL-jU
on 04 Sep 2010 at 8:43 am14 sylvia martinez
@dan I know you would agree that multimedia certainly can't be the vehicle for every interesting problem, so maybe it's just the right medium for the problems you find most interesting?
on 04 Sep 2010 at 9:44 am15 Mr. Lovell
Multimedia lends a (more tangible) richer experience of the problem than word-only questions.
More importantly, most students IMHO don't care about planes in space (maybe rockets in space) – where's the buy in?
These are not math undergrads who've declared their love for math is so strong they want to pursue it for 4 years. If you're teaching a class of gifted / advanced / eager students who love to debate and dissect abstractions then fine, but for the regular high school kid – make it relevant.
@sylvia, I hope I'm controlling my selection bias better than that. I think multimedia is the right medium for the entire genre of "real-world application problems." It isn't the best, but I don't know another medium that splits the difference between cost and quality so well.
Right now, in Sue's session, we're solving the problem: "what is the fewest number of cuts you'd have to make to a circle to split it into seventeen pieces?" This is an interesting, challenging problem that requires no multimedia, which is fine as far as it goes, but how far does it go?
on 04 Sep 2010 at 11:12 am17 sylvia martinez
I agree that multimedia lends itself to a certain class of problems. And that you've done some really good exposition of that, especially in contrast to the way textbooks spoonfeed process.
I guess my biggest qualm is that the "real world" is 3D, and multimedia is essentially a 2D representation of that world. I completely understand that it matches the math we teach in school, so that works. But there are some things (like the paper folding example above) can't be done unless you get some paper out and fold it yourself. Now, whether that translates to the math we teach kids… that's a whole 'nother question.
That said, I'd be happy to see ANYTHING interesting done in most math classrooms. This conversation is quibbling about what the edge of the envelope looks like in changing the way kids learn math. It's fun to talk about with the folks who are immersed in the attempt to change, but honestly, I am NOT complaining about anything you are trying to accomplish.
on 04 Sep 2010 at 11:18 am18 Maria Droujkova
@Sylvia – the chances of "anything interesting" happening are larger if technology is present in any form.
Planes in space or ticket rolls – I don't see the buy in. And I did spend 4+ years in university math, and I do enjoy the beauty of the completeness of real numbers, and many other abstract things. I just don't think this type of specific problems are interesting.
Honestly, by fighting so hard to make math interesting (content wise) for the students, we're only at most making it slightly more tolerable. I think it's the process that's the key, and the ticket roll image is a great layout of constraints and a base for questions – so it opens up for some real problem solving. A well-crafted mathematical problem (planes in space, for those who care about such things) does the same, without the multimedia. But maybe the multimedia puts a different twist on things and variety is nice?
I just don't think we should overestimate the importance of students posing their own problems, buying in, as it were. If they do, great. If they don't, OK. Mostly, in math, they do it to please us. I teach psychology as well as math and it's worlds apart. In psych, they're dying to know things. In math, at best they're enjoying the challenge of problem solving. I don't see that changing, multimedia or not.
on 04 Sep 2010 at 5:11 pm20 Sue VanHattum
I am so glad to see this discussion. I'm just soaking it in.
I'll keep trying to pose whatever intriguing problems I can, in my classes, and when I get the "smart" classroom, I'll do a few of Dan's snazzy ones, and see how they work for me. I'm looking forward to adding those into the mix, but I know I don't love them like Dan does.
To me, it's not which is better, but which you resonate with more. I think the teacher's enthusiasm makes a huge difference in helping students get over the hurdles (of real thinking) that math poses.
on 04 Sep 2010 at 5:29 pm21 Maria Droujkova
@Julia – A tiny minority of people are hotly interested in any particular context at any given time, including math. So, "math as its own context" – aka intrinsically interesting problems – will probably interest 3-5% of people, just like any other context. Others won't do it if they have a choice.
Good news is that we can, first, use metaphors – math in other contexts – and second, help people choose their own contexts, because math is everywhere.
I just blogged about it a couple of days ago, with examples and diagrams: http://www.naturalmath.com/blog/its-own-context/
on 04 Sep 2010 at 8:20 pm22 sylvia martinez
@maria – in my imagination, any technology makes things more interesting. Unfortunately I've seen some really bad uses of technology that make me temper those sentiments.
I was at one meeting at a nationally known ed-tech group and they shared their math lesson plans that were supposedly tech-infused. They were so horrific it would have been funny if it weren't sad.
One example had kids use Microsoft Word Art to make geometric shapes that they could then print out and write the names of the shapes on them. That one made me laugh out loud, unfortunately, I was the only one laughing.
@Maria – Yes, I completely agree. Just like to add that far more than the 3-5% do enjoy problem solving – it's simply intrinsically fun to see oneself grow, especially together with other people. That's why I'm calling for more effective problem solving guidance, instead of searching for interesting content.
on 05 Sep 2010 at 3:26 am24 Maria Droujkova
@Sylvia – Lol, people find ways to make anything boring and meaningless. I feel, however, that some tools raise the number of interesting events happening, on the average. For example, Scratch from MIT, whenever people use it; it's hard to spoil it completely, for several reasons.
@Julia – What percent of people choose non-applied problem-solving as their regular (at least weekly) activity, selected among all the other contexts freely? This is my definition of "like." By this definition, my estimate is 3-5%
There is a tremendous amount of coercion around math, because it's used as a gatekeeper left and right. Remove that, and the picture of who does what changes rather significantly.
on 05 Sep 2010 at 9:24 am25 Sue VanHattum
>What percent of people choose non-applied problem-solving as their regular (at least weekly) activity, selected among all the other contexts freely? This is my definition of "like." By this definition, my estimate is 3-5%.
Maria, don't the people doing Sudoku and KenKen – and other puzzles – count? And people playing chess? I'd expect the total to be higher than 5%. (Although perhaps not more than 10%. And of course I've been known to be wildly, inaccurately optimistic.)
on 05 Sep 2010 at 9:48 am26 Maria Droujkova
@Sue I don't consider puzzles like Sudoku or games like chess "non-applied problem-solving" for several reasons. I have an essay on problems vs. puzzles somewhere, if you are interested. If we include these classes, the number is higher, of course, and it's a matter of definition whether to include them.
on 06 Sep 2010 at 6:46 am27 bb
Maria, can I read your essay about problems vs. puzzles?
on 06 Sep 2010 at 7:50 am28 Sue VanHattum
Me too. (I'd like to read your essay, Maria.)
Until about two years ago, I wasn't doing much mathematical problem-solving, certainly not as a regular/weekly activity. If there was something interesting that came out of what I was teaching, I'd play with it. But that didn't happen often.
It took finding a community of people online, who enjoy thinking together, to get me into doing math for fun on a regular basis. Before that happened, I played free cell and sudoku when I felt like exercising that part of my brain.
The biggest change for me was going to the Math Circle Summer Institute. For a week, I got to have this kind of community, and it was in person!
Sorry I'm late to replying. My thought for this one was, have students in groups of 4-ish, and have one roll of tickets per group (or one for every two groups if they're hard to come by). That should strike a good balance between accessibility for the students vs cost.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that good use of media is a great tool to make data and reality accessible in the classroom. But the roll of tickets example is relatively easy to swap in direct access to reality. I tend to think that if you can bring in the real thing without too much fuss, that's going to trump the indirect representation most of the time in terms of engagement and usefulness.
Obviously this doesn't work with everything. I'm not bringing in a half-dozen hoses and giant water jugs. Plus, it may be harder to set those specific constraints that make the problem interesting (ie. pressing the pause button at the right time). And with an actual roll, you have to convince them that they're not allowed to just, you know, unroll it or something.
Also, reality is easier for students to work with as they don't have the intermediate step of dealing with scaled photographs. (Which is either a pro or a con, depending on what you want them to practice / demonstrate.)
A few of you came close to actually stating the fallacy of composition I see with multimedia: It, too, is a representation of a reality. The multi-media representation of tickets or escalators (which I personally love) is still a step away from the physical reality. If our goal is to get as many students involved, multimedia is one way. Another way is having smaller teams/groups work on different physical objects, perhaps in a linear fashion (each group works on objects 1-5, in some pre-determined order), where they can compare their own approaches and outcomes.
And learning which consumes the product during the learning experience (cut up a paper circle…oops, wrong number of pieces…cut up another one…oops, wrong again…cut up a third one…) teaches some valuable lessons about why we need to be able to represent some objects in order to measure, learn, test them.
When possible, use the physical objects. When that becomes impossible (which is often more a limitation of our creativity than a genuine restraint) or harmful (we don't destroy functioning buildings to measure them), use the best representation possible…assuming the technology is available to your students. And it still is not in many schools.
Great comment.
on 09 Sep 2010 at 7:41 am32 Ihor
Sylvia wrote: "I guess my biggest qualm is that the "real world" is 3D, and multimedia is essentially a 2D representation of that world."
That reminds me of the difference between live theater and film. I almost always prefer film to theater which is maybe why I like multimedia so much.
@Sylvia – I dont know if Gary told you but I'm "interviewing" him on Math 2.0 Elluminate on 10/13. Maybe you want to join us for what promises to be a lively discussion of our vision of math learning in this Web 2.0 world?
on 11 Sep 2010 at 5:26 pm33 Christine
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail". Just as a carpenter knows when to use a hammer or a nail gun, as teachers we need to evolving our repertoire of tools so that we can bring out what tool is appropriate to maximise learning. I think it is our job as educators to look at the way our students learn (visual, auditory, kinasthestic..) and teach to that, with passion!
on 01 Oct 2010 at 11:16 am34 Maria Droujkova
@bb @Sue I totally forgot to link the problem vs. puzzle write-up I put up that day three weeks ago. Well, here it is: http://www.naturalmath.com/blog/problems-and-their-camp-followers/


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A heart to heart.
It was such a joy to be with them all day and I couldn't wait to come home hang out with just our family. Then it came time to leave. They were obviously not satisfied with their most fun day.
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With my most deflated spirit I prayed and called my friend Carey knowing she would offer me some sound advice and reassure me I had not totally failed in my parenting. Not totally.
She was most encouraging and thought I should sit down with my kiddos this afternoon and talk with them about what I had observed and how we as a family could do a better job being content with what we have and not always wanting more.
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After I bared my soul and explained how I was feeling. I told them thought we could all work a little harder on being content with what we have and remember the One from whom real contentment comes.
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OK! I think you connected with them. They certainly sound repentant and desirous of change. I've been in denial since your husband responded in like manner just a few years ago. Ask him about "family time".
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I am glad I am not alone! but i think that it is sinking in even if they don't always show it!
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Oh my Goodness, I can sooo relate. When I have my 3 step children I always plan fun things for us to do,(so they think I'm the greatest...LOL) movies, waterparks, Build-A-Bear, and no matter what we do when it's over, I hear the things like this: What are we doing next, can we go here or buy this..I have to fight back the stories of how when I was a kid I never had this or that...blah blah.
And I love the Spring Fling Idea!!
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I hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day my friend! You so totally deserve it! :)
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Thank you for helping prepare me for elementary-aged motherhood!!! Whew! The wisdom it takes!!
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I am a C++ developper and i want to start to code in C#.
I don't know if i will use OpenTK or XNA.
I fear to have less utilities functions in OpenTK.
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According to TMZ reports:
Jennifer Lopez's 24-year-old backup dancer boyfriend Casper Smart is still living the high life — hitching a private jet with his Latin cougar to fly from L.A. to Morocco this week.
Casper and his sugar mama of two are set to perform at a Moroccan mall — but before they got down to business, they were spotted having a romantic dinner at a place called Rick's Cafe in Casablanca.
Here's lookin' at you, kid … you lucky sonufa beyatch (ed.).
Flip the page to peep the video of the happy couple boarding a private jet on their way to Morocco.