EMAT 6700 Project Proposal

What will ultimately make the EMAT 6700 project different from its predicessor is the depth to which the topic is taken. Below is a bullet list of goals that I hope to implement throughout the coming semester to make the difference more prominent from its current state.

• Adjust the information with the audience, secondary school students, in mind.
• Update the current information on the MATH 7200 project, including what's involved in setting up certain commercial and residential irrigation plans.
• Develop classroom units and lessons with irrigation as the real-world hook. Some possible topics to be covered could be: area, perimeter, geometric proofs concerning squares, rectangles and irregular shapes, and statistics and data display.
• Use technology (i.e. Geometer's Sketchpad, Microsoft Excel) as a learning tool within these lessons and the web link.
• Make the web link more interactive with students.
• Make the web link more user-friendly (i.e. including a Definition of Terms page).

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